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The West finally admitted to its hypocrisy: Here is why
About this episode
Donald Trump's attacks on longtime US "allies" have forced Western leaders to admit their warmongering foreign policy was hypocritical. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said the truth in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos: the "rules-based order" was "false". Ben Norton explains how the global balance of power is shifting.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTH_rx1mpfE
Check out our related video on Europe improving its relations with China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpngJ3tC7Xw
Topics
0:00 Hypocrisy of Western foreign policy
1:05 "Rules-based international order"
1:27 Donald Trump, arch-imperialist
3:00 Canada PM Mark Carney Davos speech
3:42 "Middle powers" fear US attacks
5:42 (CLIP) Multilateralism is under threat
6:04 Double standards on international law
6:35 (CLIP) "Rules-based order" was false
6:58 US unipolar domination
7:28 (CLIP) Defending "American hegemony"
7:41 Financial system & US dollar
8:34 (CLIP) Rupture, not transition
9:13 West's exploitation of Global South
9:36 Canada's complicity in imperialism
9:56 Gaza, Palestine, Israel
10:31 Canada sells weapons to Israel
11:54 Canada's whitewashed reputation
12:22 Canada's hypocritical UN votes
13:47 West votes against rest of world
14:21 Canadian conservatives
15:03 Imperial hypocrisy
15:36 USA supports Canadian separatists
16:33 (CLIP) If not at table, on the menu
16:48 Partners in crime
17:34 Macron's message to Trump
18:38 New phase of imperialism
19:38 Sovereignty: Westphalian system
20:40 Decolonization
21:11 Neocolonialism
22:08 Mark Carney's trip to China
23:09 Trump threatens Canada over China
23:51 Canada's trade dependence on USA
24:26 Oil exports
24:59 Canada's oil pipelines
25:49 Chinese car industry investments
27:41 Reducing dependency
28:06 European leaders visit China
28:30 "Human rights" hypocrisy
29:07 EU relations with China
29:32 Outro
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