Business elites truly believe Trump could be on the verge of solving one of the world’s most difficult problems: The Ukraine War
By Charles Gasparino
Published Jan. 25, 2025, 3:28 p.m. ET
DAVOS, Switzerland — Donald Trump’s first week in office was a whirlwind: executive orders on everything from closing the border to ending federal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion mandates.
Social media postings announced new business initiatives and put world leaders on notice that a new sheriff is in town.
Heads were spinning among the business and political elites, both back home and here at the World Economic Forum, the annual confab of the globalist crowd where I’ve been hanging for the past few days.
That’s because the decidedly non-globalist Trump, people here truly believe, could be on the verge of solving maybe the most intractable problem the world faces: The nearly three-year armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Until now, it showed no signs of ending and even threatened nuclear war.
Yet after a few well-timed comments from The Donald about how his alleged man-crush Vladimir Putin needs to get to the negotiating table, there’s fresh optimism that the conflict will end and war-ravaged Ukraine could once again start receiving flows of private capital brokered by the big banks.
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