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Live from Davos 2026

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Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
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On What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead discusses why the mood at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this year went from denial to fear, why the United States has never been both so unpopular and so dominant there, and what President Donald Trump’s and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speeches revealed about the state of the Western alliance.