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the past. and top ministers from finland and sweden tell me about their nations historic decisions to apply for nato membership. then, a rare interview with iran s foreign minister at a critical time in talks for a revived nuclear deal. to make sure that an iran that is already acting with incredible aggression doesn t have a nuclear weapon or the ability to produce one on short notice. will they reach an agreement, or will the talks fall apart? when in god s name do we do what we all needs to be done? finally, one more senseless act of violence this time in texas. i ll give you some of my thoughts on how to end this endless carnage? but first, here s my take. the world economic forum in davos is usually fixated on the future. most years the attendees are dazzled by some country, company, or technology promising to burst forward, force change, dominate the next decade. this year the focus was not on the future but the past, people delved back into history to ....
i talk with the leaders of four of russia s neighbors to the west. starting with ukraine s president zelenskyy. i ask under what conditions he would be willing to negotiate with vladimir putin. then president duda of poland explains just how much suffering russia has caused his nation in the past. and top ministers from finland and sweden tell me about their nations historic decisions to apply for nato membership. then, a rare interview with iran s foreign minister at a critical time in talks for a revived nuclear deal. to make sure that an iran that is already acting with incredible aggression doesn t have a nuclear weapon or the ability to produce one on short notice. will they reach an agreement, or will the talks fall apart? when in god s name do we do what we all needs to be done? finally, one more senseless act of violence this time in texas. i ll give you some of my thoughts on how to end this endless carnage? but first, here s my take. the world econo ....
Of uncertainty about the world that we are heading into, a world of multiplying risks. singapore s senior minister said to me we know the risks that are out there are large. they re not about black swan events coming out of the blue. a pandemic was predicted. russia s invasion was a known possibility. another pandemic or more frequent climate crises, these are not just possible but likely. we can t keep expecting and planning for a return to calm on troubled times. a former central banker told me that economic policymakers told me they felt they were in uncharted territory. when inflation moves up ever so slightly and then you raise rates a tiny bit and all was well, that s dead. we re in a new world and we re all just experimenting. there is a broader foreboding, a sense that the era we have just lived through, the three decades since 1990 may have been an ....
Sense that the era we have just lived through, the three decades since 1990 may have been an unusual, perhaps even unique one in which great politics and geopolitical tensions that normally dominate and define international life were absent. the giddy trends of recent times, globalization, the information revolution, even democratization were built on an edifice of power, america s super power status. but that strength has been waning for some years, caused by iraq, the global financial crisis, covid. now it is being challenged first by china and then russia. in all this gloom, there s one distinctly hopeful sign, europe is acting with a greater sense of unity and purpose than i ve ....