Experience Davos From Your Own Living Room

Expanded Remarks

I can assure you now of one things readers. What you have heard about the Davos World Economic Forum being the exclusive preserve of the rich, powerful and elite, is completely untrue. This year it was the host of the poor and the non-powerful. I can say that as I was asked to take part in a number of panels at Davos this year, and I am about as far from a global elite as someone can be (who actually gets on a plane every once and a while).

PS—Davos has been fascinating and not entirely uplifting. What is has shown more than anything is the almost total triumph of MAGA for now—even in Europe and around the world. I will write some reflections on the whole experience when its over.

I was asked to take part in panels held at Ukraine House—and naturally I was delighted and honored. Specifically I was asked to be a speaker at two of their sessions—and what I thought I would do (and which I thought you might find interesting) is to right down for you more detailed responses than I can actually deliver at Davos.

The way that it works is that most events are handled in panels. The speakers are given talking points to guide the discussion—and they have a few minutes to discuss them. Then a Q/A session happens, with questions either coming from one moderator, or from the crowd controlled by a moderator. What I did, was write down a rather long response to each set of preparatory questions, to set the issues straighter in my mind. So you are getting an even more detailed response than the Davos Crowd

Issues for Discussion First Event—this is what the Panel would asked to consider.

“Showing deficiencies in dealing with the war in Ukraine and other crises, and criticized by the incoming US administration, the UN, along with other major global institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF, is facing increasing scrutiny and criticism from nations worldwide. Is the old order simply crumbling, or can something new emerge? What would Ukrainians envision as a fair international order?”

An Answer: A New World?