Sabriwithrealitycheck

Trump in Davos, oh my world, what a speech by the President of the United States. What should have been a sober presidential address instead unfolded like a campaign rally, full of bravado and self-congratulation. It sounded less like diplomacy and more like domestic political theatre, with global crises reduced to backdrops for personal branding. In that moment, statecraft gave way to spectacle. The setting made the performance all the more revealing. Davos likes to present itself as the command centre of neoliberal global governance, a gathering where political leaders, corporate executives, financiers, and policy experts claim to manage the world through markets and technocratic expertise. Yet Trump’s speech avoided any serious engagement with the structural failures of this system: widening inequality, ecological collapse, labour precarity, or the permanent state of war that shapes much of the Global South. For audiences in India and South Asia, these omissions are not abstract, ...