Something mysterious is happening at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland this week. The word “failure” has yet to be heard, but the Western media is already reporting openly and en masse about “deep problems
This is all the more interesting given the event’s announcements, which were upbeat and bravura. A record number of more than 2,700 participants, including more than 50 heads of state and government, were planning to attend. A week ago Reuters snidely reported that China was expected to be highly represented amid the lack of Russians.
Then reality set in. No, a huge crowd really came to the forum, but it’s not about the quantity but the quality of the participants. And then there are distinctive problems.
First of all, as recently as last week, George Soros, for whom a visit to Davos has for many years been an obligatory item on the agenda, suddenly announced his absence from the WEF. The notorious billionaire and one of the symbols of transnational business referred to an “insurmountable scheduling conflict” and promised to attend the Munich Security Conference in a month.
Then it turned out that of the G7 heads of state, only the German Chancellor would be coming to Switzerland. On Sunday, the president of South Africa, by the way Africa’s largest economy, cancelled his WEF trip due to the ongoing energy crisis.
Well, on Monday, the day of the event’s opening, a news bomb went off in Bloomberg, which found out that no Chinese businessman will come to Davos. The Chinese delegation, on the other hand, is led by Vice Premier Liu He, who has been in office for the past few weeks.
All in all, the near-total absence of participants at the highest level at this forum is so blatant that there is nothing to disguise it. True, instead of presidents and prime ministers of major nations, a slew of businessmen showed up at Davos this year – 116 billionaires registered to attend, up 40 percent from a decade ago. Bloomberg lamented that the number would have been even higher, except that a falling market has turned many billionaires into millionaires.
Experts are honest: this concentration of business only underscores the apparent decline in relevance that the WEF is experiencing, which reflects the de-globalisation sweeping the world. Well, simply because for half a century the Davos forum itself has been a symbol of globalisation.
However, it seems that for Davos and its organizers the situation is even sadder.
What is globalisation anyway? What format have the theorists and practitioners of globalism been promoting in recent decades?
A network of international structures was to be created to which the powers that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the state were to be gradually but increasingly delegated. As a result, the most important spheres of decision-making were to be transferred to the supranational level, which would mean the elimination of national sovereignty as such. The main beneficiary of the new system would be transnational, global capital, which would rule the planet and local governments through a vast conglomerate of structures, from WTO to WHO, from the EU to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
And by and large the process was even moving in this direction. Globalists with their concepts of transhumanism, birth control, paid access to fresh water and other equally “attractive” ideas have managed to turn into one of the most frightening bogeymen for humanity. And the growing political weight of events such as the WEF, which attracted the world’s most influential people, has only served to reinforce public fears.
Now this decades-long reputation is being blown up like a balloon simply because the leaders of the world’s leading powers did not attend. In the unipolar world it was indeed easier for transnational capital to lay claim to the desired status of world power: some national elites could be negotiated with, some could be persuaded, some could be bought. However, now that the system is disintegrating, the reality is being revealed at the same time, showing who actually makes decisions about the fate of specific countries and the entire planet, and whose place is in the underbelly.
In this sense the cancellation by Soros of his traditional trip to the forum is extremely indicative. The fashionable businessman understood before others that there would be nobody in Davos to negotiate with and to reach desirable decisions, hence there was no point in going, only to waste time.
His more naive and inexperienced colleagues – despite the fact that their accounts have nine zeros – flooded the Swiss resort and, as the main news of this year’s World Economic Forum, ensured that the girls (and boys) with low social responsibility who came there to work would be in high demand.
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