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Multilateralism for middle powers

" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.

We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,

Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.

Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly

World Disorder Edges Toward Event Horizon as 'Age of Disruption' Bites Deep

Canadian PM Mark Carney urged middle-sized countries to band together at Davos 2026 to face global power struggles and economic risks.

#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics

https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/

The world faces more economic risks than last year, with leaders like Canada's PM calling for countries to work together.

#Davos2026, #GlobalRisks, #MarkCarney, #MiddlePowers, #Geopolitics
https://newsletter.tf/canada-pm-carney-middle-powers-unite-davos-2026/

Christine #Lagarde on how trump has betrayed his #nowar mantra | The Economist #markcarney #worldorder #imf #worldbank #middlepowers #worldbank #wto #who #un youtube.com/shorts/Rt0OI...

Christine Lagarde on how Presi...

Christine #Lagarde on how trump has betrayed his #nowar mantra | The Economist #markcarney #worldorder #imf #worldbank #middlepowers #worldbank #wto #who #un youtube.com/shorts/Rt0OI...

Christine Lagarde on how Presi...

@MarciaW Yes, but #HenryKissinger was awarded the #NobelPeacePrize *before* the #MiddlePowers became #woke. #ElbowsUp https://www.news18.com/explainers/one-accepted-one-refused-the-story-of-the-most-controversial-nobel-peace-prize-ws-l-9640712.html

But the #FIFA #PeacePrize 😂 won’t help #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump escape #justice for the litany of crimes he has committed in the #UnitedStates and around the world.

I can’t believe neither of these are trending in the #fediverse yet! #Canada #MiddlePowers #ElbowsUp

Which should it be?

#Mexico is focusing on #Infrastructure that will build its #economy. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robertgcoulter_exciting-times-for-our-friends-in-mexico-activity-7439495856837332992-cwjz

#Canada is building #trade partnerships between ‘#MiddlePowers.’

Meanwhile, the #UnitedStates is stuck in a costly and deadly #quagmire in the #MiddleEast. 🤔

#Resist the #FelonsCrusade in #Iran.

US becoming dominant military force in Northern Territory, report says

"The US is building a functioning operating ecosystem in northern Australia while Australia risks becoming a secondary user of its own strategic geography." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-17/nt-usa-becoming-dominant-military-force-northern-territory-aspi/106460770
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny #NT

Australia’s ‘strategic infantilisation’ by the US is undermining our security in Asia

"We are a perennially anxious nation, seemingly unable to come to terms with the reality of our geographic position. We reflexively identify with faraway members of the Anglosphere, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But even more consequentially, we outsource responsibility for our foreign and security policy to one great and powerful friend or another. "

Others "view us as an appendage of America’s grand strategy, with little capacity for independent thought, much less action...This may spare our policymakers from the challenge of thinking independently. >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-strategic-infantilisation-by-the-us-is-undermining-our-security-in-asia-278068
#sovereignty #Australia #war #AUKUS #MiddlePowers #belonging #Anglosphere #anxiety #subordination #SubimperialEnforcer #DistanceAndDestiny

Americana meets the Aussie bush

Trying to get some bread in a cafe on Bellingen's main drag. Once the obstacle course of the packs of dogs on extendable leads are overcome it is time for waiting in a long queue on a Saturday. Many hipster families are there to have breakfast done for them.

One set was showcasing their three toddlers in a full 'American Western-inspired aesthetic', cowboy hats and boots. Mum had that Instagrammable ‘Mar-a-Lago face’.

Wide-brimmed hats are ideal to protect oneself from Australia's sun, but this was in the comfort zone of a cafe.

The "cowboy core" aesthetic facade harks back to the wide‑open‑spaces where cattle-herders (cowboys, stockmen/ringers) managed grazing livestock, for the pastoral industry, particularly in the Australian outback or American Western frontier.

Already in the 16th century, the Conquistadors and other Spanish settlers brought their cattle-raising traditions to Mexico and Florida.

The Western portrayed the cowboy as an enduring cultural figure representing freedom.

So why are these urban folks from the suburbs running around in 'costumes' looking like pastoralist workers from a mythical past? What 'sense of belonging' do they buy?

Maybe the fashionable habitus points to a vibe shift of the wannabe cowboys expressing preemptive subordination or imperial obsequiousness?

The rise of cowboy core: What's behind it.>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/dr-karl-how-things-work-cowboy-core-fashion/106336574

Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/mar-a-lago-face-plastic-surgery

Image :
In 1859 European wild rabbits were introduced into Australia so they could be hunted for sport. Now hats are made out of some of the invasive species.
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/rabbits-introduced

#cowboys #pastoralism #SettlerSociety #fashion #WesternWear #CattleHerders #belonging #Bellingen #culture #MiddlePowers #subordination #RupturedGlobalOrder #BellingenObservations

@j2bryson At the #WEF in #Davis #MarkCarney started a trend among #MiddlePowers.

#ElbowsUp #Canada #NATO-1 💪

@fulelo The #MiddlePowers are tired of stale #TACO 🌮 🇺🇸 and are eager to put some spicy #Chinese food 🍜 🇨🇳 on the table!

The #WhiteHouse of Lies is shaking.

#DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump is currently weathering a ‘perfect storm’ of #retribution.

A pissed-off neighbour, #MarkCarney announced a tectonic shift in world order at the #WEF in #Davos : #MiddlePowers uniting against #TrumpRussiaCollusion.

A pissed-off co-conspirator, #GhislaineMaxwell has still not received a pardon, and is signaling ‘time’s up!’

A pissed-off wife is fuming that the #fascist crackdown in #Minneapolis is stealing limelight from #Melania.

Mark Carney’s Davos speech warned that a Trump-led rupture in the global order leaves middle powers to act collectively and diversify away from U.S. dependence, with Japan uniquely exposed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/28/world/the-age-of-middle-powers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #canada #markcarney #us #donaldtrump #davos #greenland #nato #davos #middlepowers

@FluentInFinance #Putin is extremely pleased with his puppet in the #WhiteHouse - known by #Russian Generals in the #Kremlin as ‘Agent #Krasnov.’ #WashingtonHasFallen

#MiddlePowers are #QuietQuitting the #USdollar.

#Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at World Economic Forum in Davos

At Davos, Mark Carney warns the rules-based order has ruptured, urges middle powers to stop pretending, build shared resilience, and wield values-based realism to confront great-power coercion.

As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the 'middle powers' face a grave new challenge

#power #democracy #RulesBasedOrder #greatpowers #trump #carney #nato #un #us #Europe #newworldorder #middlepowers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99kkerr93ko

Part of the strength of middle powers is that they are so much easier to align with for small powers, and thus it makes sense for a truckloads of us little ones to band together with the middle powers for reach and protection - in turn adding a lot to their power. We saw it with Ireland in connection to Brexit. And my country, Denmark, sees it now.

Thank you middle power, and thank you too, all our fellow small critter nations.

#Carney #Davos #MiddlePowers #Ireland #Brexit #Trump #Denmark

Carney’s rallying cry to ‘middle powers’ includes Australia - and we should heed his call
#MarkCarney #Canada #Australia #MiddlePowers #GlobalOrder #PostHegemony #AntiImperialism #MultipolarWorld #GlobalSouth #WesternHypocrisy #USDominance #Geopolitics
https://the-14.com/carneys-rallying-cry-to-middle-powers-includes-australia-and-we-should-heed-his-call/

I'm just following the psycho-drama of that Board of Peace. The AP says this was the state of play at 5pm today.
(Stories are circulating that UK and Germany have also made decisions too ... )
#diplomacy #MiddlePowers
https://apnews.com/article/trump-netanyahu-gaza-board-of-peace-a4a296f736474e8c6a4edacd7109b8e5