It's an understatement to say that Donald Trump's shadow loomed over Davos, where the annual session of the World Economic Forum opened on January 20, the very day the 47th US president was inaugurated in Washington. For three days, until he himself spoke via video from the White House on Thursday, January 23, none of the foreign leaders gathered in this Swiss Alpine village could dodge the subject of the consequences of Trump's thunderous return to the White House. The dissonance in their reactions betrayed all the fractures in the chaotic world that this new tremor has only accentuated.
There are, of course, the disciples, who are delighted to see the old world disappear. Such is the case of Argentina's president, Javier Milei, the chainsaw-wielding leader who came straight from Washington, where he was invited to the inauguration ceremony. Thanks to him, "Argentina has broken its chains." Now it's a matter of making "the West great again today." In a raging half-hour diatribe against "woke ideology" and its "sinister and murderous ideology," of which the European Union is "the armed wing," Milei expressed his delight at finally seeing the emergence "slowly [of] an international alliance (...) among all those nations which, like ours, want to be free, (...) from the amazing Elon Musk to that fierce Italian lady, my dear Giorgia Meloni; from Bukele in El Salvador to Viktor Orban in Hungary; from Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel to Donald Trump in the United States."
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