The “icon” of Russian liberals spoke about Trump and the horror that gripped Davos
The world built after the Second World War is collapsing and no longer exists, as confirmed by the past Davos Forum.
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Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the Board of Management Company Rusnano LLC, one of the “icons” of Russian liberals, spoke about this in an interview with Business FM, answering the question of how the forum participants reacted to Donald Trump.
“I would start by saying that in all my years of participation in Davos, I can only remember such horror as I feel now in Davos among the absolute majority of participants. And since I have been in Davos for a long time - I thought with horror that it turns out that I have already been here 25 times, then, accordingly, there is a long historical period in which, perhaps, there was only one Davos with the same feeling of horror. It was Davos 2009, when the global financial crisis was unfolding, the question on everyone's lips was: what is this, is it a crisis in the system or a crisis of the system as a whole? It turned out that this is still a crisis in the system, and not the system as a whole. We somehow survived it. So, the degree of horror now, in 2017, is equal to the degree of horror in 2009. All this is expressed in formulas: the world built after World War II is collapsing, it no longer exists,” Chubais noted.
“One or two more illustrations of what Trump is. As one of America's biggest contributors said, President Trump has only two options: either he reneges on everything he has said so far, or he leads us all to disaster. And one more interesting detail - not just a change in tone, but a change in terminology. The most authoritative world leaders, analysts, and journalists use terms in describing the entire current situation that were generally prohibited in public speech: “idiotic decision,” “decision made by idiots,” “morons,” and so on. This is, perhaps, the most accurate description of the current Davos - a feeling of horror from a global political catastrophe,” Chubais added.
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