Dr. Martin Luther King and Beyond

In the US, where, if you, the reader hadn't noticed, prices are down, according to Trump, and the US is a beacon for other nations, cardinals are asking, what is the "moral role" of a country in "confronting evil around the world"?

There's love for Venezuela's oil. Not the people, mind you. But the oil! There's Maria Corina Machado handing her Nobel Prize for Peace to Trump. She's for the people; she's for Trump ! Me, me, me, Mr. Trump! See me!

A moral role? The current president is a felon!

At Davos, 2026, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney suggested Canada and the world, for that matter, knew all about the US's moral role.

For decades, Carney explains, Canada prospered under "rules-based international order." He continues, "we joined institutions, praised its principles, and benefited from its predictability." All the while, however, Canada knew that "the international rules-based order" was false. That is, Canada played the strongest is the mightiest game. "That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically," we knew. Also, we knew that "international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accursed or victim."

Fiction, but a useful fiction.

The US hasn't always been so humanitarian bent, Carney suggests, unless kicking and screaming, and even then, equality was another matter. In fact, the US initiated strong trade values, but for the benefit of the rich, Carney points out. "We placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals and we largely avoided calling out the "gap" between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works."

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