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The history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rules — or designing new ones — to fit strategic US interests. This may sound harsh but it is a necessary realization, particularly in light of US President Donald Trump’s latest political invention: the “Board of Peace.”
Some have hastily concluded that Trump’s newest political gambit — unveiled last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos — is a uniquely Trumpian endeavor, detached from earlier US foreign policy doctrines. They are mistaken, misled largely by Trump’s self-centered political style and his constant, though unfounded, claims that he has ended wars, resolved global conflicts and made the world a safer place.
At the Davos launch, Trump reinforced this carefully crafted illusion, boasting of America’s supposed historic leadership in bringing peace, praising alleged unprecedented diplomatic breakthroughs and presenting the Board of Peace as a neutral, benevolent mechanism capable of stabilizing the world’s most volatile regions.
Trump’s political designs — whether in Gaza or beyond — are not an aberration but part of a familiar pattern
