Headline: Telos News, 1/22/2026 (highlight added)
Two months later, the original Gaza Board of Peace described in the UN resolution has been tucked inside a new super Board of Peace that Trump has invented to— well, nobody really knows. But if you read the charter carefully, it appears to be a new global platform for Trump to apply his unique formula for solving diplomatic crises: descending on the world’s trouble spots and leveraging the power and prestige of the United States to offer help in exchange for economic concessions that often seem to benefit Trump, his family members, and his cronies. (Today, Trump again talked about Gaza as a real estate opportunity.)
Naturally, Trump has made himself the new Board of Peace’s chairman, who, according to the Trump-authored charter, has these powers:
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The Board of Peace is obviously one of the most daft proposals in diplomatic history. But Trump is both crazy and the leader of the most powerful nation in the world. So, a lot of countries, mostly the ones you would expect—backsliding democracies and Middle Eastern dictatorships—have indeed rushed to sign up for this thing.
The list now includes these 24 countries, according to various reports: Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
In Davos today, 19 of these countries— all but Belarus, Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, and Vietnam—joined Trump for a signing ceremony as founding members of the BoP. This was supposed to be the climax of Trump’s trip to Davos, his moment of triumph on the world stage.
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