00:00It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry,
00:12that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can and the weak must
00:18suffer what they must. And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable,
00:25as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself. And faced with this logic,
00:33there is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along, to accommodate,
00:42to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety. Well, it won't. Let me be direct.
00:51We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades, a series of crises in
00:59finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.
01:05But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as
01:12leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.
01:17On Arctic sovereignty, we stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support
01:24their unique right to determine Greenland's future.
01:27Our commitment to NATO's Article 5 is unwavering. So we're working with our NATO allies, including the
01:45Nordic Baltic Gate, to further secure the Alliance's northern and western flanks, including through
01:51Canada's unprecedented investments in over-the-horizon radar, in submarines, in aircraft, and boots
01:58on the ground. Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland and calls for focused talks to achieve
02:06our shared objectives of security and prosperity in the Arctic. I argue that middle powers must act
02:12together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. But I'd also say that great powers, great powers
02:22can afford for now to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity, and the leverage
02:28to dictate terms. Middle powers do not. But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from
02:37weakness. We accept what's offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not
02:45sovereignty. It's the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.
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