This is what the prime minister means by taking the world as it is

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If you want a close look at the “new world order” Prime Minister Mark Carney casually mentioned during the lavish tributes he was paying his hosts in Beijing last week, you would do well to begin by considering the components of a new high-speed Russian drone that was shot down by Ukraine’s air-defence division a few days ago.

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If you prefer, you might think of this exercise as evidence of the collapse of the old “rules based international order” that you’ve been reading about in all the quality newspapers lately. In Davos this week, where U.S. president Donald Trump delivered an unnerving exhibition of the more extreme symptoms of severe narcissistic personality disorder, it was pretty much all anybody was talking about.

In any case, the downed bomb was of a new long-range type, the Geran-5. It’s the latest model in a line of the Iranian Shahed unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured at the Albatross Corporation’s giant Yelabuga drone factory in the special economic zone in Russian Tartarstan.

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The Geran-5 drone was just one of about 2,000 drones Moscow has launched against Ukrainian cities in the past three weeks. The barrages have targeted highrise apartment buildings, energy infrastructure, and water and sewer systems in Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Zaporzhia.

In the capital Kyiv, far from the posh resort town of Davos in Switzerland’s Rhaetian Alps and well away from the front pages of most of the........

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