Perhaps peace is difficult because too many institutions depend on managing war rather than ending it. Perhaps the international system does not suffer from a shortage of strategic intelligence, but from a surplus of profitable hypocrisy.
And perhaps the mosquito is not the greatest danger to the Bison.
Perhaps the Bison, intoxicated by its own size, has forgotten that it is standing in somebody else’s house.
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What we are witnessing is not a tantrum, not a crisis, and not another geopolitical drama begging for emergency summits and expert panels…
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Let us be clear. Let us not be deceived—again. The murder of Rene Good, a mother and a poet, in Minneapolis, was not an isolated incident. It was not a “tragic anomaly,” not a “failure of procedure,” not a footnote gone wrong in an otherwise noble system.
This is not about one murder, one massacre, one “tragic incident,” one regrettable “mistake” explained away by a press release and a blue-ribbon commission. This is about a system that perfects cruelty, routinizes violence, and then asks us to admire its efficiency.
It was the system doing what it does best: enforcing order by erasing the inconvenient. A poet killed in a city that still sells diversity as a brand.
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There are moments in global politics when the mask slips—not because power suddenly discovers morality, but because maintaining the performance becomes too expensive.
Recently in Davos , the Canadian Prime minister Mark Carney did something unusual. He admitted—almost casually—that the so-called rules-based international order has never quite been what it claimed to be. That the rules were unevenly applied. That the strongest routinely exempted themselves. That integration, once sold as mutual benefit, has increasingly become a tool of coercion.
For a brief second, one could almost feel relief. Not because the truth was new—but because it was finally spoken aloud. We have lived under this system for generations. Born into it. Disciplined by it. Told it was neutral, benevolent, inevitable. We were instructed to respect “rules” written elsewhere, interpreted elsewhere, enforced elsewhere—usually against us. The outcome was never order, but obedience; never justice, but management…..
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