ANTICIPATION
The “Board of Peace” (BoP), announced with great fanfare by Donald Trump on 22 January in Davos[1], illustrates the emergence of a market that is particularly attractive to the financial world. It is in this in-between (neither universal nor fully public) space that the most successful example of pay-to-play club diplomacy is situated. This is not a traditional international organisation, but rather a privatised Security Council, initially conceived for the post-conflict reconstruction of Gaza[2], and modelled on the functioning of a board of directors, with a shareholder-driven approach, return on investment and tight governance.
Power is concentrated within an ‘Executive Board’ chaired by the one and only Mr Trump, who holds the right of veto and the power to invite or exclude participants. Several close associates from the worlds of business and diplomacy gravitate around him, including Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Marc Rowan, Marco Rubio and Tony Blair. Access to a permanent seat on this VIP council, with its gold-plated logo centred on America, is conditional upon the payment of one billion dollars, in cash, into a fund under US control. Ironically, the UN’s debt alone stands at two billion… We can already anticipate that the US’s outstanding payments to the organisation will be redirected towards this new club.
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