But it’s the international friendships where one can most clearly see the costs mounting in real time. Just look at the statements coming from that mountain redoubt of global capitalism at Davos: Canadian prime minister Mark Carney—the leader of our closest ally and largest trading partner, whose military is data-offer-url=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/canada-s-military-has-modeled-hypothetical-us-invasion-reports-say” class=”external-link” data-event-click=”{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/canada-s-military-has-modeled-hypothetical-us-invasion-reports-say"}” href=”https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/canada-s-military-has-modeled-hypothetical-us-invasion-reports-say” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>now modeling doing battle with the US across what has long been the world’s longest unguarded border—got a data-offer-url=”https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/world/canada/carney-speech-davos-trump.html” class=”external-link” data-event-click=”{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/world/canada/carney-speech-davos-trump.html"}” href=”https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/world/canada/carney-speech-davos-trump.html” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>standing ovation for a speech in which he proclaimed, “Let me be clear: We are in…
