Having grown up in Alberta as a card-carrying Liberal, I knew how to make friends with Conservatives. If I didn’t, I would’ve had no friends.

When you are a progressive-type surrounded by conservative types, you learn pretty quickly that no ideology has a monopoly on common sense. Every political tribe – Liberals, Conservatives, New Democrats – has their own share of lunatics. Every tribe has their own contingent of kooks and crooks.

But Donald Trump is in a category of his own.

On Monday morning, many of us woke to news that Trump had written a text message to Norway’s Prime Minister. Here is part of what it said.

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” he wrote, adding that he had done more for NATO than any person who had ever lived. Then: “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”

It’s been confirmed as authentic by Norway, and by PBS, which got the scoop. Donald Trump, the President of the the United States of America, is saying he no longer needs to “think purely of Peace” because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize. So, he will push to control Greenland – which, not that these things seemingly matter anymore, is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. Not Norway.

There has been lots of insanity in Trump’s second term: Canada as the 51st state, prosecutions of critics, militarization of U.S. cities, assaults on the Federal Reserve, the killing of Renee Good, crippling tariffs levied against allies (but none against Russia). It’s been exactly a year since Trump commenced his second spin through the White House (which he has partly torn down, and gilded like a hooker’s drawing room). But it feels like a decade.

That’s because Trump’s first term in office, while non compos mentis, was not as bad as the last twelve months have been. During his first term, he did lots of things that were crazy. January 6, abusing power and obstructing elections were the two big ones, and they helped to get him impeached, twice. But he was surrounded by comparatively-sane people in his first term. Not this time. Not in 2025-2026. The inmates are running the asylum, on this go-round.

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Might makes right, goes the cliché, and the cliché is certainly true, circa 2026.

With a straight face, Prime Minister Mark Carney this week trumpeted his assorted trade deals with China as a “new world order,” quote unquote. That was an unfortunate choice of words, but apt.

Inter alia, the New World Order (NWO) was a stable of professional wrestlers, and a forgettable genre of heavy metal music. But, mostly, “New World Order” refers to a conspiracy theory that alleges a secret cabal of global elites that plots to create a totalitarian one-world government. The Illuminati, the Freemasons, George Soros and the Rothschilds are all in on it. (Of course.)

So, for Carney to celebrate a New World Order with China was, to say the least, a poor choice of words. Off to the woodshed, PMO spinners.

In his private moments, Mark Carney probably acknowledges that – diplomatically, economically, militarily – Canada is a middle power, if that. A single chair at the G7 notwithstanding, we get pushed around. A lot.

The United States, Russia and China, of course, have always been superpowers. In the past, they could not always get what they wanted. They were limited by international law, trade relationships, economics and circumstance. In 2026, that is no longer the case.

The world order is now beset by Social Darwinism on a staggering scale. For myriad reasons, America, Russia and China are the strong and utterly dominate us, the comparatively-weak. They are thugs, most days, and the rest of the world knows it but cannot even say it aloud. So we go along. But do we have to now celebrate it, too?

Consider the case of Carney’s new BFF, China. Here is only a partial list of the the things China has done to us, and to the world.

• China imprisoned two Canadians, the two Michaels – Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig – unlawfully, for years. The two men had done nothing wrong.
• China established what it benignly calls “overseas police stations” in Canada – at least two in Quebec, one in Vancouver, and three in the Toronto area. They are completely illegal.
• China interfered in at least two Canadian federal elections, in 2019 and 2021 – which included covertly funding candidates and bribing politicians. All of this is criminal activity.
• China executed at least four Canadians in 2025, in secret, for alleged drug offences – over the objections of our Prime Minister

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The military don’t start wars. Politicians do.

History is littered with proof of that. Old men, with political power, start a war, and young men with no power are sent to fight them. It’s an infinite cycle.

So, does Donald Trump, the oldest-ever president of the United States and now in his 80th year, really plan to wage war on Greenland, an ally of America and the West? He says he can and will.

Here are some of things Trump has said. They are direct quotes.

• “We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not.”
• “I would like to make a deal the easy way, but if we don’t do it the easy way we’re going to do it the hard way.”
• “One way or the other, we’re going to have Greenland.”
• “If we don’t [take over], Russia or China will take over Greenland. And we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.”

Trump has a very loose acquaintance with truth, so all of this could be fake news, to use the president’s preferred put-down. But it isn’t just Trump who has said these things. His White Office has issued this official statement: “The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilising the US military is always an option at the commander-in-chief’s disposal.”

And Trump’s Gollum-like Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller, has been even more direct. Speaking to CNN a few days ago, Miller said that “the formal position of the US government that Greenland should be part of the US.” And, on whether that might lead to war, Miller said: “Nobody’s going to fight the US over the future of Greenland.”

The Europeans beg to differ. Seven of them issued an extraordinary joint statement last week, saying “Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.” Denmark, a longtime U.S. military ally, itself said it is “ready to defend” Greenland.

The country’s Defence Committee chair added that Trump’s stated goals “means war” and that Danish troops “would fight back.” Germany, for its part, has sent a warship to the area. And some European leaders are speaking openly of military confrontation, shutting down U.S. military bases in Europe, and cutting off trade.

It is worrying, of course. More significantly, however, Trump’s manifest destiny madness is against the rules and against common sense. Two reasons – one well-known, the other not so much.

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It’s axiomatic: when you do something a lot, you get better at it. So, when you do lots of campaigns, you get better at campaigns.

Witness the variously pro-Palestine, anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, antisemitic Leftist fringe that magically transformed itself into the anti-U.S., anti-Trump, pro-Maduro Leftist fringe over the weekend. Within hours, with military precision. Here, in Canada, and around the world.

Says Canadian lawyer and expert Caryma Sa’d: “Since the US military intervention in Venezuela, I’ve covered [and] reviewed footage from Cambridge, Toronto, and Ottawa that suggests convergence between the anti-Israel and anti-American protesters…Everything is viewed through what they’d consider an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-oppression lens, from Land Back to Safe Supply to Free Palestine to Trans Rights, and now, Hands Off Venezuela.”

And, as I document in my Random House book The Hidden Hand, out next month, a worldwide propaganda campaign against Israel and the West commenced in the early hours of October 7, 2023, when Hamas murdered, raped and brutalized thousands of Jews in Israel.

The campaign had lots of money, organizers, protestors and tested messages mostly aimed at Gen Z and Millennials. It has been a massive success: the anti-Israel, antisemitic side has overwhelmed their targets by a factor of fifty to one.

And, by running so many protests for more than two years, the antisemites and the bigots have acquired undeniable skills. Their messaging and tactics have dwarfed the feeble pro-Israel, pro-Western effort.

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