It’s 2026, and all of us are living in Mafialand. Donald Trump is The Godfather’s Don Corleone. He does what he wants. And he expects absolute loyalty.

In Davos, he announced a new “Board of Peace” for Gaza, his very own UN, which Britain and most European leaders have thankfully stayed out of. But for how long? The morally flexible Tony Blair is in there, together with other rich and powerful henchmen, ready to do Trump’s bidding.

Among them are Belarus’s autocratic leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, still subject to an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. And there are the filthy rich, despotic rulers of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Mean, forceful leaders are keen to be liked by Trump.

The latest plan for Gaza is essentially about economic colonialism and profits. The peace deal never held. Israel violates that agreement regularly; Palestinians are not free or safe in Gaza or the West Bank. Trump’s illegal abduction of Nicolás Maduro, the former president of Venezuela, a sovereign nation, is accepted as inevitable or even necessary. He will go on rampaging.

The British political analyst Philippe Legrain has exposed Trump’s bad-faith........

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