Carney’s Davos “Take the Sign Down” Moment — Canada Diversifies, Rulebook Fallout

International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better · Jan 21, 2026 · 1h 29m · transcript

Mark Carney just said the quiet part out loud at Davos: the so-called “rules-based international order” worked—until it didn’t. In today’s International Flavor, Samuel Trapp plays Carney’s full “sign in the window” speech and connects it to the hard reality: tariffs as leverage, finance as coercion, supply chains as pressure points, and middle powers scrambling for “strategic autonomy.”

Then Samuel brings it home—Greenland power politics, Venezuela’s oil incentives hiding behind cleaner headlines, and why interest-based bargaining beats theatrical positions when the stakes are real.

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