"From bored of peace to Board of Peace in five days"

"Just a few days ago, on Sunday, the president wrote that he no longer felt 'an obligation to think purely of Peace,' since he hadn’t been awarded the Nobel Prize. Yet here he was: from bored of peace to Board of Peace in five days. Forget the road to Damascus; true conversions happen on the jet to Davos.

"And who better to solve the world’s conflicts than the man who, in his speech at the WEF a day earlier, became confused about whether he wished to illegally seize Greenland or Iceland? ...

“'Everybody wants to be a part of it,' Trump insisted of his new club. But big European countries had already turned him down. The initial members include Saudi Arabia, Israel and Belarus. Vladimir Putin says Russia may join too, if, and this is not a joke, he can pay the membership from Russia’s frozen assets. If these guys can run a peace initiative, the Sinaloa Cartel can run Narcotics Anonymous."

~ Henry Mance in Financial Times op-ed 'From bored of peace to the Board of Peace'