The 2026 Davos Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF) will undoubtedly go down in history.

Just as the fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the end of the First Cold War with the victory of the United States, I believe the Davos Summit, which began on Monday, is declaring the end of American hegemony.

The World Economic Forum shouldn’t be taken lightly. Founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, a student of Kissinger who was a former lawyer for Rockefeller, this foundation has been renowned for shaping the course of the capitalist world for 50 years. Note: The WEF’s founding date coincides with the year the US dollar was removed from the gold standard.

Image: Brende in 2023 (Public Domain)

At this year’s summit, Borge Brende, a low-profile Norwegian right-wing politician who has taken over the seat of the now-retired Klaus Schwab, is attempting to keep the foundation afloat; Even if he says,

“The World Economic Forum isn’t about responding to current events. It’s about orchestrating the right conditions to move forward,” it’s all in vain.

There’s great chaos at the top level. The culprit is Emperor Trump, who, like a bull in a china shop, is destroying everything in the Western establishment.

Trump is actually feigning madness, but he knows perfectly well that his country is in a terrible situation. Its total debt has reached $40 trillion, and for the first time in history, its annual interest payments exceed its military spending by one trillion dollars. To address this, Trump has increased the Pentagon budget to $1.5 trillion by 2026.

What Trump is doing, continuing with “Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland, Canada,” is like a powerful opponent overturning the table after losing the game.

In my opinion, Trump is playing the role of a madman to prevent the inevitable collapse of the US. He probably doesn’t need to act that much, given his nature. As the spoiled and useless child of a wealthy contractor whose father was a Jewish lobbyist, nonsense and perversion are in his blood.

But the bitter truth is emerging at the annual meeting of finance capital in Davos.

The Western world is accepting defeat.

For example, what did Larry Fink, the famous CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, say?

“Global elites have lost the public’s trust and are currently facing ‘deep institutional distrust.’ If the WEF wants to be useful in the future, it must regain that trust.”

Fink is referring to the Plandemic and the Great Reset scenarios. And of course, he’s describing the horrific income inequality in the world and the savagery of neoliberalism, or finance capital, that ran rampant after 1980.

He’s practically confessing the sins of capitalism’s as a grey cardinal!

“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the greatest wealth in history has been created, but this money has gone into the pockets of a tiny minority, enough to disrupt social peace. No society can sustain such an unjust distribution for long; eventually, the system will crack.”

The End of White-Collar Workers:

“Just as globalization hit the factory worker, Artificial Intelligence will now do the same to office workers, lawyers, and analysts. I’m not talking about the future, I’m talking about today!”

You’d think he was about to sing the international anthem!

But Fink, burning with rage as gold, silver, and copper soared while stock markets and the dollar crashed, wasn’t alone.

The announcement of the collapse of the West’s “rules-based order” was made by the US’s immediate neighbor.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech that was at least as important, perhaps even more so, than Fink’s:

“We knew the narrative of a rules-based international order was a lie. We knew that the most powerful actors would exempt themselves when it suited them. But this construct was convenient.”

Carney also admitted that he had accepted American hegemony because it suited the purposes of his government.

But now the system had broken down. The former central banker-turned-prime minister alluded to Vaclav Havel’s famous story of the greengrocer. In the story, a greengrocer in the Soviet Union hangs a sign in his shop that reads “Workers of the world unite,” even though he doesn’t believe it. But one day he decides not to conform and takes it down; this spreads, and communism collapses!

“This fiction was useful. That’s why we put the sign up in the window. We are not in a transition period, but in the midst of a rupture. We are aware of what is happening and we are determined to act accordingly. We know that a rupture requires more than just conformity. It requires honestly accepting the world as it is. We are taking the sign down.”

This was a response to Trump’s “initiation of illegality” and the very announcement of the specter haunting Davos: the collective acceptance by the West of the end of US hegemony.

Like Fink and Carney, Belgian Prime Minister (right wing-conservative) Bart De Wever stated:

“On Wednesday, together with King Philippe of Belgium, we will meet with Trump. But this will have a different character than we planned. The message we will probably have to give is: You are crossing red lines here. Either we stand together or we are divided; if we are divided, it will be the end of 80 years of Atlanticism, a real era will close.

And you know, as Gramsci said:

“While the old is dying, the new is not yet born, now is the time of monsters. It is up to him (Trump) to decide whether he will be a monster or not, yes or no?”

The Italian communist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, like the famous Czech anti-communist Vaclav Havel, was declaring the end of the Second Cold War and the defeat of the US long after his death (through the mouths of the most ardent capitalists).

While all this was happening, the EU announced it was canceling its trade agreement with the US. The US was offering Denmark $700 billion to buy Greenland (including a one-time payment of one million dollars to each Greenland citizen to accept US citizenship), and Iran was preparing for what was likely an imminent US-Israeli attack.

At Davos, the club of the wealthy where the future of the world and capitalism was discussed, the familiar rhetoric of global warming was also shelved.

In fact, it would become clear at this summit that the chemicals sprayed into the air under the pretext of global warming were not a conspiracy theory.

Journalist James O’Keefe secretly filmed at the World Economic Forum, recording elites confessing to things long dismissed as “conspiracy theories.”

World Economic Forum in casual conversations with O’Keefe, the elite openly admitted that chemicals were being sprayed into the atmosphere and even agricultural areas to cool the planet.

One company executive acknowledged that many of these operations were being carried out quietly and behind closed doors by the US military;

“A large part of the work is actually done by the (US) military. They do it constantly, and it’s actually quite cheap.”

Those lines we saw in the sky were indeed chemicals dropped from planes!

In short, the end of Pax Americana was announced in Davos, and the ghost of reality began to howl in the Swiss Alps.

The panic among the bosses shows that the world has now reached a turning point.

Whether good or bad…

Note: Meanwhile, China and Russia seem to be enjoying the taste of winning without doing much. What the Chinese delegation said in Davos suggests that Western leaders (like Mark Carney) will soon be heading to China. Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said in Davos: “The world cannot return to the law of the jungle where the strong prey on the weak.” “China is ready to be not only the world’s factory, but also the world’s market,” he said. However, when Trump arrived in Davos, Switzerland, there was no one to greet him. There was no official welcome. No delegation was present.

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Hüseyin Vodinalı completed master’s degree (MA) in journalism and TV production at the New York Institute of Technology in the USA between 1992-94. During the same period, worked as the New York and United Nations correspondent of Anadolu Agency and TRT. He worked as a diplomacy and defense correspondent on Turkish national TV channels since 1995. Served as the  Chief of Foreign News at TRT, the Turkish State/Public Television. Retired from TRT in 2020. He still regularly publishes geopolitical articles on Veryansıntv.com and Dağarcık Turkiye, news and commentary sites. Author of three boks in Turkish: “Covid 19 – Beyond a Virus”, “NATO as a Mandate Organization” and “Epstein Scandal – Mossad’s Global Blackmail”.

He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

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