Hundreds of global CEOs, finance titans, and more than 60 prime ministers and presidents are in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual confab of the world’s powerful and wealthy: the World Economic Forum.

This year’s Davos meeting occurs at a time when Donald Trump is not just unleashing his brownshirts on Minneapolis and other American cities, but also dismantling the international order that’s largely been in place since the end of the second world war – threatening Nato, withdrawing from international organizations including the UN climate treaty, violating the UN charter by invading Venezuela and abducting Nicolás Maduro, upending established trade rules, and demanding that the US annex Greenland.

He’s even threatened to hike tariffs on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Finland – fellow Nato members that have expressed solidarity with Denmark in its refusal to yield to Trump’s demand to annex Greenland.

According to a text message Trump sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend, the US president said one reason he was seeking to acquire Greenland was because he didn’t win the Nobel peace prize. “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,” Trump wrote.

I hope the leaders now assembling at Davos........

© The Guardian