A Speech That Broke the Usual Script
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Rather than leaning on familiar phrases about cooperation and optimism, Carney took a different approach.
He described the current moment not as a transition, but as something far more serious.
“Let me be direct,” he said.
“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”
That single line set the tone.
Carney went on to argue that decades of global integration — once sold as mutually beneficial — are now being actively weaponized.
Tariffs as leverage.
Financial systems as tools of pressure.
Supply chains turned into strategic choke points.
