Well, it finally happened. The world has officially turned into a middle school cafeteria. Donald Trump has uninvited Canada from his new club, the Board of Peace. He didn't say why. He didn't give a list of reasons or a formal letter. He just pulled the chair away right before Canada could sit down. It is the kind of move you see from a playground bully who decides that today, for no reason at all, the kid with the nice lunch doesn't get to play with the rest of the group. It would be funny if these people weren't in charge of thousands of nuclear weapons and the global economy.

The Board of Peace is a funny name to begin with. It sounds like something a child would call their secret clubhouse in the backyard. You can almost see the sign made of cardboard with 'No Boys Allowed' crossed out and replaced with 'No Honest People Allowed.' It is supposed to be about bringing the world together, but the first thing they did was kick out the neighbor who lives right upstairs. Canada is the quietest neighbor anyone could ask for. They don't throw loud parties. They always mow their lawn. They have never started a war with anyone just for fun. If you can’t have peace with Canada, you probably aren't actually looking for peace. You're looking for fans.

So, why did this happen? It seems Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, made the big mistake of telling the truth. He warned about a 'rupture' in the world order. That is a fancy word for saying things are breaking. He looked at the world and saw that the old ways of doing things are falling apart. He saw that the systems we used to trust are cracked. Instead of listening to him, the U.S. decided to punish him. In the world of modern politics, pointing out that the boat is sinking is seen as a bigger crime than actually letting the boat sink. If you tell the captain there is a hole in the ship, the captain doesn't fix the hole. He just throws you overboard so he doesn't have to hear the splashing.

This tells us everything we need to know about where we are heading. We are moving away from a world of logic and moving into a world of feelings. Mark Carney wanted to talk about economics and global stability. He wanted to talk about how countries can work together so that everything doesn't go up in flames. But the Board of Peace isn't about stability. It is about loyalty. It is a group for people who agree to never say anything uncomfortable. It is a theater where everyone has to read from the same script, even if the script makes no sense. Canada tried to ad-lib a line about reality, and they got fired from the show.

There is a deep irony in all of this. The U.S. and Canada are stuck with each other. They share a border that is thousands of miles long. They buy and sell almost everything to each other. You cannot simply 'uninvite' your biggest trading partner from the world. It is like a person trying to uninvite their own left arm from their body because the arm pointed out that the hand was touching a hot stove. You can ignore the arm all you want, but the burn is still going to happen. The 'rupture' Carney talked about is already here. Kicking him out of a meeting doesn't make the rupture go away. It just means the meeting will be much more quiet while the world falls apart.

As someone who has watched these political actors for a long time, I find this particularly exhausting. We are watching the slow death of diplomacy. Diplomacy used to be about sitting in a room with people you didn't like and finding a way to not kill each other. Now, diplomacy is just about making sure you only talk to people who tell you how great you are. It is a bubble. The Board of Peace is just a giant, gold-plated bubble. Inside the bubble, everything is perfect. Outside the bubble, the 'rupture' is growing wider every day.

We should have seen this coming. We live in an era where facts are treated like insults. Canada tried to bring a map to a party where everyone else was busy looking in the mirror. Of course they weren't welcome. The truth is a very bad guest at a party built on illusions. So now, the Board of Peace will go on without them. They will sit around and talk about how peaceful they are while the rest of the world wonders how much longer the theater can stay open before the roof caves in. It would be tragic if it weren't so predictable. I told you so, but then again, nobody likes a person who tells the truth—just ask Canada.