India, Jan. 21 -- The tensions between President Donald Trump and America's allies over Washington's unpredictable trade policies, exacerbated by the recent military action in Venezuela and Trump's repeated threats of taking over Greenland, reached the World Economic Forum in Davos, where Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out in blunt detail what many countries that benefited from a US-led strategic alliance now believe.

In a brutally honest assessment of the emerging position in Europe and the broader West, Carney described the current chaos as a "rupture" of the world order, not a transition, and the start of great power geopolitics sans limits. While Carney made no mention of Trump, he left little doubt about what is causing th...