“An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order

Jan 22, 2026 | We speak to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about the United States under Donald Trump and its attempts to reshape the post-World War II international consensus. “Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create his private company and say, 'Right, I'm taking over the world,’” laments Varoufakis as he draws a connection between Trump’s pay-to-play diplomacy and the mercantalist policies of European colonial powers. Varoufakis comments on plans for the reoccupation of Gaza by the U.S.-led “Board of Peace,” which signed its founding charter this week; Trump’s designs on the Danish territory of Greenland; and European leaders’ ineffectual, largely symbolic resistance to Trump’s assertion of U.S. supremacy on the world stage.

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Trump is full of BS. And so is anyone who goes along with him. — © Mark Alexander

Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace': "It's Not an Institution, It's One Man" | DW News

Jan 22, 2026 | US President Donald Trump has rolled out his so-called Board of Peace at a ceremony in Davos. Trump signed the document formally establishing the group, which he says will work in conjunction with United Nations. Prime ministers and diplomats of several other countries also signed the document.

The board of peace was originally part of his Gaza peace plan, meant to oversee the ceasefire and reconstruction of the Palestinian territory. Trump says the new board will work together to resolve conflicts and work towards peace.


More crap from the king of crap. Trump's crap never ends. – © Mark Alexander