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.

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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