Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, along with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and President Donald Trump, delivered a powerful message at Davos, challenging the globalist model of managed decline.
They advocated for a growth-oriented 'America First' policy, emphasizing job creation, sovereignty, and industrial growth.
This contrasts sharply with the 'Globalism Light' approach promoted by leaders like Mark Carney and Ursula von der Leyen, who remain committed to depopulation and de-industrialization agendas.
Susan Kokinda of Promethean Action breaks down the significance of these speeches, highlighting the ongoing battle between the American System and the British Imperial System, and urging viewers to support policies that promote the American System.
Chapters
00:00 The Midweek Update - Davos SILENCED: The 3 Words That Terrified the Global Elite - January 21, 2026
03:09 Trump Team's Message to Davos: Reality Check
07:17 "Globalism Light": Same Poison, Smaller Bottle
11:02 Growth vs. Managed Decline
Snapshots and Notes
The 3 words that terrified the global elite? Grow, baby, grow…
They are terrified of these 3 words because their entire system depends on managing decline.
Grow, baby, grow is the message Treasury Secretary Scott Besant delivered at Davos, in effect, inviting the world to abandon the Davos model…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wasted no time in landing the first punch.
“We are in Davos at the World Economic Forum.
“And the Trump administration and myself, we are here to make a very clear point. Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America.
“It’s a failed policy.
“It is what the WEF has stood for, which is:
export offshore, far shore
find the cheapest labor in the world, and
the world is a better place for it.
Then Donald Trump followed up a few hours ago (Wed 21-Jan), saying that many parts of the world are being destroyed by
failed model of foreign jobs
mass migration, and
green insanity
But if you listen to the mainstream media on both sides of the pond, you would think that Canada’s Mark Carney is the defender of all that is good and noble.
Carney’s speech portrayed the stalwart Canadians and Europeans as the force now standing up to the great-power hegemon, the United States, which has wrecked their beautiful post-war order.
But here’s what they didn’t mention while defending their rules-based order.
Since 1989, this order has given us forever wars and regime changes that have killed millions.
And it’s given the West a demographic collapse due to drugs, depopulation, and deindustrialization.
And as for human rights, don’t forget that the native populations in both Greenland and Canada were targets of forced sterilization campaigns carried out by their governments, which, by the way, are both monarchies.
In Greenland, this included girls as young as 13.
And here’s the final irony…
Overlooking Davos this week was a massive display reading No Kings.
Now, you have to laugh because, as my friend Tom Luongo said, “If they meant it, they’d start freeing Greenland from the Danish monarchy.”
But they don’t mean it; they never do, as Carney and von der Leyen aren’t selling Democracy.
Their speeches at Davos were the opening ad campaigns for globalism lite: the same depopulation and deindustrialization agenda, just put in a smaller box.
Trump Team’s Message to Davos: Reality Check (03:09)
It wasn’t a negotiation, it was a reality check…
“What we are here to say is that America First is a different model, one that we encourage other countries to consider, which is that our workers come first, and we can have policies that impact our workers.
“Sovereignty is your borders.
“You’re entitled to have borders.
“You shouldn’t offshore your medicine.
“You shouldn’t offshore your semiconductors.
“You shouldn’t offshore your entire industrial base and have it be hollowed out beneath you.
“You should not be dependent. for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation.
“And if you’re going to be dependent on someone, it darn well better be your best allies, okay?
“And so that is a different way of thinking.
“It is completely different than the WEF.”
Lutnik delivered the what, Treasury Secretary Besant provided the why …
“There’s just a different mindset here, and I think the mindset has got to change.
“It’s got to change to a growth mentality.
“And that’s President Trump’s invitation is we are growing, we’re deregulating and come and join us.
‘We have identified the greatest financial risk as a lack of growth because post-COVID, every government balance sheet has, ballooned, and we have this gigantic government debt.
“There are two ways.
“You can either cut your way out of it through austerity, no voter wants that, or you can grow your way out of it.
“So we are inviting the world, come grow with us, prosper with us, and we can all do it together.”
What he’s talking about is really the American system in action.
Bessent is saying that industrial growth and a growing population are the foundations of an economy, not financial income streams.
This is a reversal of the WEF globalist imperial policy, which only exists to feed powerful monopolies, whether it was the British East India Company 200 years ago, or the global financial institutions based in London and Wall Street today.
And for more than a hundred years, you’ve been denied the knowledge that there was an American system alternative to what we see today as globalism.
Well, U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer just delivered another bombshell at Davos in a speech entitled The Hamiltonian Economic System That Too Many Have Forgotten.
He laid out Alexander Hamilton's uniquely American economic policy with stunning clarity.
And we’ll be covering that in more detail over the coming days (so make sure you’re subscribed!).
What you’re seeing out in the open on the stage at Davos is a clear example of two systems that have been in mortal combat since the American Revolution, a revolution which we’re celebrating this year.
The fight is not between communism and capitalism, but the American system versus the British imperial system.
If you are beginning to realize that the battlefield is a little different than the one you’ve been taught to fight on, you are not alone.
Trump and his team are delivering their powerful message to the world.
We don’t just want to grow and prosper alone.
We want you to abandon the insanity and join us.
Because everything that President Trump has done in his first year has been to grow baby grow, to unleash the productive power of America’s workers, and to throttle the power of the financier elite.
But don’t expect Carney and his friends to accept these offers.
For the Davos crowd, this is an extinction-level event.
Their entire power structure is based on feeding financial income streams by finding new sectors of the economy to tap into and driving down living standards and population growth.
“Globalism Light”: Same Poison, Smaller Bottle (07:17)
So instead of accepting the invitation to grow, the European elite are doubling down on managed decline in a downsized version.
They call it regionalization - it is only a lite version of globalism.
They want to link the European Union with the South American Common Market1 and other regional clusters to keep the Green New Deal and the Paris Accord alive.
Mark Carney played his new role as the face of Globalism 2.0 to a T - he gave the tough love speech on behalf of the elites, declaring that the old order isn’t transitioning, it’s rupturing, and he left no doubt as to who was doing the rupturing.
“Today I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality where geopolitics, where the large main power geopolitics is submitted to no limits, no constraints.
“It seems that every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.”
Our note: give the basis of WEXIT, in which multiple Provinces are seceding from Canada and seeking Statehood in the USA. This comment is VERY hypocritical, as it is EXACTLY how he (and Trudeau) has been managing all the Provinces of Canada. He literally weakened the most abundant provinces by demanding that all their harvests be sent to Ottawa, and in turn, they sent back less than 30% of those harvests, not to mention the rules and regulations that kept them from growing.
He made clear that it’s really the United States and Russia who are the hegemons who must be contained.
What is Carney’s solution to the threat of these hegemons?
The intermediate powers of the world, led by Canada and the EU, will forge new regional blocs that will stand up to Trump’s America.
But there’s only one problem.
The policies of those regional blocs are the same failed policies that have driven nations like the United States, Russia, Hungary, and others to exit globalization so they can grow and prosper.
But that reality doesn’t penetrate the thinking of these globalist sock puppets.
Just listen to EU head Ursula von der Leyen proudly announcing the emergence of a new Europe and a new regional deal with South America.
“This new Europe is already emerging.
“On Saturday (17 January), I was in Asuncion, in Paraguay, to sign the EU Mercosur Trade Agreement.
“It was a breakthrough after 25 years of negotiations.
“And with it, the European Union and Latin America have created the largest free trade zone in the world, a market worth over 20% of global GDP, 31 countries with over 700 million consumers aligned with the Paris Agreement.”
In other words, they gained free trade and the Paris Climate Accords…
Globally, I have traveled to 8 countries and worked in 3 - and EVERY time I arrived, the conversation at the 1st lunch always brought up the QUALITY of American goods. I explained each time that the reason for the quality was the lower cost of energy - especially electricity - that exists in the U.S. In some of the countries I had been to, the locals wanted me to return with whatever items they desired, all because of the quality and price. For example, I am currently in Brazil, and for the price of EVERY item I purchase here, I can buy 3 to 10 of the same items in the U.S. - and the quality is lacking unless I import it from the U.S. People listening to Ursula are failing to realize that they will have a nearly empty bag full of emotions if they follow her route.
So they’re taking the failed policies of globalism and shoving them into smaller regional packages - policies that have not only failed, they’re evil.
And this is where the Greenland story exposes the lie.
They strut around Davos claiming moral superiority against an unprincipled United States, but their system, the system of the British crown and the other European empires, repackaged as the EU, is anti-human to its core.
Denmark’s treatment of Greenland proves that its view of the population hasn’t changed.
Whether it’s forced sterilization or the de-industrialization of Germany or the suppression of economic development in Africa or endless wars in the Mideast and Europe, it’s all the same: fewer people, less growth, less life.
Carney calls this a rupture.
Well, he’s right - it is a rupture from their system of death.
And thank God Donald Trump came along to be the disruptor.
Growth vs. Managed Decline (11:02)
The most profound contrast between Trump and Davos isn’t just about trade or about Greenland.
It’s about what a society is for.
The Davos model keeps populations under control while the financier elite loots economies and living standards.
The American system is focused on fostering physical growth.
And the key to this is the growth of a productive, prosperous, middle and working class, a point which Trump’s team came back to over and over again.
And the day before he traveled to Davos, President Trump released his dramatic new initiative on housing, which really is a pillar for family formation and population growth.
Here’s what the president’s new order says...
And as he pointed out at Davos, many of those Wall Street investors were right there in the audience.
So what he is doing is really big.
He is explicitly saying that large institutional investors should not buy single family homes.
Think about the difference…
Davos wants you to rent a little 800-square-foot apartment and own nothing.
Trump wants you to own a home and build intergenerational wealth.
And it’s not just housing.
Look at some of the other things that have emerged just in the past couple of weeks - rural health.
Last week, the administration announced the largest investment in rural health care in history.
Dr. Oz highlighted this by pointing out that mortality rates are 9 years lower in rural America than anywhere else.
He announced with these new investments, quote, your zip code will no longer be your destiny.
And then let’s look at fentanyl.
With Trump’s actual border enforcement, the flow of this poison has been cut dramatically, and fentanyl deaths have fallen by approximately 20% over the last year.
That’s not just a statistic, that’s thousands of young Americans who are alive today because of Trump’s policies.
So this is the choice.
The Davos paradigm has always been about managing scarcity and reducing the population.
And when people like Carney and von der Leyen speak about a new Europe or new agreements, they don’t intend to change anything.
They still see human beings as burdens on Mother Earth or cannon fodder for a free trade system.
The American system and Donald Trump look at a human being, and they see a creator.
President Trump wants to build a future where your children are wealthier than you are and more numerous.
Understanding the policies that will do that is the education everyone must take upon themselves, or their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will never know the America we have known and want back.
FOOTNOTES
9 January 2026 🇪🇺🤝🇦🇷🇧🇷🇵🇾🇺🇾 — The EU-Mercosur trade agreement has been approved.
After more than 25 years of negotiations, EU ambassadors gave the green light today (January 9, 2026) by qualified majority. 21 countries voted in favor, including Spain, Germany, and Italy. This constitutes a qualified majority (55% of member states representing 65% of the population).
France, Poland, Austria, Ireland, and Hungary voted against. Belgium abstained.
France tried to persuade Romania and the Netherlands to change their position until the last minute, but was unsuccessful.
The only remaining step is for Ursula von der Leyen to fly to Asuncion, Paraguay (possibly next week) to sign the agreement.
Mercosur, or the Southern Common Market, is a South American trade bloc established in 1991.
Its founding members are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Bolivia recently joined as a full member in 2024, and Venezuela became a full member in 2012 but was suspended in 2016 or 2017.
The bloc’s purpose is to promote free trade and the movement of goods, people, and currency among its members, and it functions as a customs union with free intra-zone trade and a common trade policy.
Mercosur has also signed commercial, political, or cooperation agreements with various nations and organizations globally.
The EU-Mercosur agreement aims to strengthen commercial ties and establish one of the world’s largest free-trade zones, encompassing over 700 million people and a global economic footprint exceeding $25 trillion in GDP.
The deal is considered the EU’s largest in terms of tariff cuts, with Mercosur expected to remove duties on 91% of EU exports.
On January 21, 2026, the European Parliament voted to delay the final approval of the EU-Mercosur trade deal by referring it to the EU Court of Justice.
This decision was made by a narrow margin (334 votes in favor to 324 against) to examine the agreement’s compliance with EU norms and treaties. The referral to the court could delay the implementation of the treaty by up to 2 years.
Perspectives
Support for the EU-Mercosur Trade Deal
The German Chancellor called the European Parliament’s decision to delay the agreement regrettable and stated that it does not take the geopolitical situation into account.
The European Commission, which concluded the agreement, regrets the European Parliament’s decision and believes the questions raised by the Parliament are unjustified.
The agreement is seen as a major geopolitical victory for the EU, expanding its presence in a resource-rich region and sending a message that South America cultivates diverse trade relations.
Supporters say the deal would create one of the largest free-trade areas, covering 700 million consumers, and would give the EU an early-mover advantage given Mercosur’s modest collection of trade agreements.
Opposition to the EU-Mercosur Trade Deal
Some EU member states, including Ireland, France, and Poland, oppose or criticize the proposed deal, with the Irish government voicing concerns and opposing the deal in its current form.
Opponents, including farmers and some environmentalists in Europe, are worried that the deal could lead to an influx of cheap commodities, hurt European farmers, and increase deforestation.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated that Hungary will not ratify the agreement as long as the current government is in office, noting that the European Commission tried to implement the agreement before approval by the EU parliaments
