Carney is so far offside (to use a hockey metaphor) he is not even on the ice, and he has no clue what the game is or where the puck is.

Here's just an excerpt from today's C and C

Consider how brilliant and audacious this strategy was. Trump isn’t bothering to reform the UN. He’s not even pulling the US out of the main body, where we need to stay on the Security Council to make sure nothing goes sideways. (And it’s easier to kill the UN from inside anyway.)

Instead, Trump said, “I’ll just make a new United Nations.”

🔥 The implications are staggering. Trump stands poised to kill the UN softly. For just one example, imagine if the US, from its position on the Security Council, simply vetoes all ‘peacekeeping’ missions unless they are routed through his new Board of Peace. The argument makes itself— UN peacekeeping missions usually fail, the UN is too often deadlocked in voting paralysis, and it is fantastically expensive compared to what it actually accomplishes. So, the argument would go, let’s give the job to someone who knows how to broker peace efficiently.

Someone like President Trump! After all, he just ended eight wars —the Gaza ceasefire, DRC-Rwanda, Armenia-Azerbaijan, India-Pakistan, etc.— in one year.

Think about it. Trump’s peacemaking deals last year now look more like strategic preplanning— a ‘proof of concept’ justifying a UN replacement, not merely ‘lobbying for a Nobel prize.’ Everybody bought the idea that Trump actually cared about the stupid Nobel prize, and it was just a head fake the whole time.

Now cast your mind back to Trump’s last speech at the UN in September. He told the General Assembly how he’d made more peace in one year than they had in forty. He lambasted the UN for offering “little help,” and asked rhetorically, “What is the purpose of the United Nations?”

He was setting it all up.

The evidence isn’t just the Board of Peace and Trump’s speech. Remember how, on January 7th, Trump signed a presidential memo withdrawing the U.S. from 66 international organizations, conventions, and treaties deemed “contrary to U.S. interests?” They included 31 UN-affiliated entities (e.g., UN Population Fund, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) and 35 non-UN multilateral bodies (e.g., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—IPCC, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research). Boom.

Meanwhile, President Trump’s adversaries lie docile and powerless —unable to even effectively complain (see, e.g., Mark Carney)— cowering like toads ‘neath the harrow, in perpetual fear of the ever-present threat posed by the tariff dashboard’s glittering deterrance.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/hit-by-the-peace-board-friday-january