When faced with sufficient pressure TACO always seems to back down. At Davos it seems as if he threw up a big white flag and surrendered to NATO and Denmark. It is almost as if they have some undisclosed leverage over the goon. This does not just appear to be a significant amount of egg on Trump's face, it looks more like a 12 egg omelette.

Much is being made of the contrast between the US president’s speech on January 21 and the speech delivered by the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, the day before. Carney’s speech was hailed by many as being epoch-defining, in the words of one journalist on a par with Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech.

Carney talked of “a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality”. The rules-based order, Carney said, was “fading” and that the multilateral institutions on which the world depended were under serious threat from great power dominance. It was now up to the rest of the world to stop pretending and face up to the new harsh reality.

In Davos, President Trump unveiled the Board of Peace, appointing himself president for life. Except for 19 countries, who are on an appeasement drive to impress him, other countries stayed away, with few bluntly refusing to join. It was a poor show of bad optics and appeasement, because such a personality-based organization earns no credibility. It’s likely to survive only while Trump is in the White House.

Despite many actions of President Trump to undermine the UN, this board doesn’t have the traction to replace the UN. No G7 country or any major power has joined so far and may not join it, as it presupposes subordination to Donald Trump, who has allotted himself overriding powers and boasts of overstated claims for peace.

At Davos 2026, Trump openly declared that sovereignty is elastic, alliances are transactional, and morality follows power. Europe’s former colonizers are unsettled because Trump now uses against them the language they once used abroad with American support, yet episodes like the Greenland U‑turn and the reversal of his 10 percent tariff threat show that coordinated European pushback and united retaliation can blunt his coercive unilateralism. It vindicated India’s strategy of autonomy and multilateralism against unjustified tariffs.

Davos revealed a fractured order where the new big colonizer seeks leverage, not legitimacy, and it set a precedent for China and Russia to exercise similar unilateralism in renewed great‑power rivalry.

So long as an updated Monroe‑style “Donroe Doctrine” shapes the American strategic psyche (which could go beyond Trump’s presidency), other states must build options that let them look—and act—beyond, and without, the United States.

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Any change to the territory of Denmark requires the approval of the Folketing, or parliament. However, even if Greenland was simply a piece of Danish territory without a constitutional special status, it is no longer internationally permissible to transfer inhabited territory from one sovereign to another without popular endorsement by the local population. Since the practice of territorial and even population exchanges before and after World War I, it has become established that a plebiscite among the population concerned would be required. And the Greenlanders oppose a transfer to US sovereignty by an estimated majority of 85 per cent.

Accordingly, it is the people of Greenland alone that must decide on the future of the territory. This entitlement is so strongly rooted in the international system and in the Danish constitutional order that even an irate US President cannot overrule it.

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Stephen Miller, a senior Trump advisor throughout his time in office, said recently that the world has always been ruled by “strength” and “power”, not the “niceties of international law”. Trump has gone further, telling the New York Times in a two-hour interview published on January 11, “I don’t need international law”, and that he is only constrained by: “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me, and that’s very good.”

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Trump's one dimensional game of Tiddywinks did win him something: much greater mistrust of the USA and a belief that Trump is dangerously insane.

MAGAs like to argue that Trump's threats of military force were some high level negotiating tactic. That's some truly sycophantic spin. He sounded like a madman, got former allies to strengthen their resolve against participation with the US, encouraged former allies to build bridges with China, and the US got absolutely nothing it didn't already have re Greenland.

Trump's Carnival People team should have advised him that unveiling his "Board of Peace" was going to flop bigly and make Trump look like a self-absorbed fool. He seems to need to keep padding his resume with fake titles and borrowed prizes, as if he's applying for a job at Goldman or Google and needs to look special.

I think the whole world is probably just waiting for, and hoping, the old clown just dies sooner rather than later, so the idiocy can end. I suspect when he does pass, if world leaders do attend his funeral it will be to party and celebrate, and if they don't attend, they will send in their stead something like a Third Secretary of their Washington Embassy.

49 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Trump has gone further, telling the New York Times in a two-hour interview published on January 11, “I don’t need international law”, and that he is only constrained by: “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me, and that’s very good.”

So his lack of morality is because he's lost his mind? :)

3 hours ago, Peabody said:

So his lack of morality is because he's lost his mind? :)

Nope. Just another excuse from a whiny child. Such a victim. My heart goes out to him. Why do so many hate him so much? Seems so unfair. Poor, poor child.

Niall Ferguson thinks otherwise:

"https://x.com/nfergus/status/2014992907934027946

"The reality is that Trump won Davos, hands down. And not only did he win it; he owned it. I have never before seen a single individual so completely dominate this vast bazaar of the powerful, the wealthy, the famous, and the self-important. "

Note to mods: While this is from X, I respectfully submit that Niall Ferguson is an acceptable person to quote from Social Media, as per his qualifications, viz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Ferguson#:~:text=Sir%20Niall%20Campbell%20Ferguson%20HonFRSE&text=is%20a%20British%2DAmerican%20historian%20who,International%20Affairs%20at%20Harvard%20University.

Trump's appearances and speeches at Davos were a brilliant successful!!!

They were his finest performances, and will be discussed for decades!!!

Totally outstanding!!

Why???

Because his speeches clearly showed the world how arrogant, dangerous, delusional, ignorant, mentally deranged, misinformed, selfish, unfit for leadership, unstable, (add a few more words if you like) Trump is. If one thought Hitler or Stalin were bad, they have nothing on Trump.

Trump provided the world with reasons to disengage from the USA, until the American people come to their senses and remove the entire Trump administration ASAP.

How convenient for trump that loves nicknames and slogans that there are several slogans that come to mind regarding the demented wannabe dictator:

Dump Trump

Thump Trump

Trump my Rump

Don the Con

Crook on a Hook

The Biggest Loser.

The Kool Aide King

Trump made himself so ridiculous! 🤣