In a return to Trump’s stupid Gaza plan, he has asked nations to put up a billion US dollars to join a Board of Peace to rival the United Nations. Naturally, this Trump led board will be without the charter, purpose, vision and authority to pursue any meaningful outcomes.

The first nation bumped from the invite list is Canada, if it wasn’t so funny it would be serious. Taking a look at the initial nations signing up to Trump’s Board of Peace are countries trying to align themselves with Trump. The only issue is most of their citizens have been banned from entry into the United States by Trump. It is not difficult to identify their motivation, just like the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center of the Arts, the Trump class battleships he wants to resurrect or the Triumphal Arch, this board of nations is to be a shrine to himself.

So, apart from Canada [uninvited after Carney hinted to Trump to forget it] the major western nations of the world are non-committal. The United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Of course Hungary signed up, Victor Orban could not pass up this opportunity to cosy up to his hero, Donald Trump. Announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the major NATO nations are still reeling after the disrespect shown by Trump for their support of the United States or the pressure on Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States.

The Executive Board consists of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, his real estate and golf buddy Steve Wikoff, son-in-law Jarrad Kushner, Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and a few other hand selected picks. Naturally, Donald Trump himself is the Chairman, yeah, really, you cannot make this stuff up. There is a representative from the World Bank, some more Trump lackies

The countries involved so far include Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Morocco, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Bahrain, Turkey, Mongolia, Indonesia, Argentina, Bulgaria, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Paraguay, Morocco, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, and Israel. Now there is a line-up of nations with a strong human rights record who can dictate to nations with strong human rights records. Whilst this board is initially looking at the Gaza reconstruction, Palestine is not represented, they are likely to be displaced from the region as this is really a major real estate project, the Palestinians are likely to get in the way.

What I am not seeing is the Nordic nations of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. Well, Denmark are under threat of invasion by the Chairman of the Board of Peace right now so I can see why they might be a little hesitant. The Western European nations are noticeably absent, but then again, they are busy preparing to send troops to Greenland to starve off an invasion by the Chairman of the Board of Peace. I also note Iran is missing from the acceptance list, at time of writing the US Fleet was steaming to the Persian Gulf region to continue bombing Iran, so I can see why they might be reassessing their invitation.