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The 2026 Davos Meeting. A Look Back. Greenland and Venezuela and a Whole Lot of Noise. An Analysis and Commentary.
President Trump met with European leaders in Davos,Switzerland, this week. It was an economic meeting with a broad-based agenda, including climate change and other global issues. Politics run deep, and thisis particularly true this year in light of Trump's potential actions, ranging from the taking of Greenland to attacking and then complimenting NATO. And let's add a diatribe against Switzerland, and in a subsequent meeting with SwissPresident Guy Parmelin, praising the Swiss for making high-quality watches. It sounded like the ultimate non-compliment compliment. THE FULL TEXT/NOTES CAN BE…
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