Adam Tooze

I don't have to be here.

And that is a kind of withdrawal.

It's very ambiguous, right?

Because it doesn't necessarily dispose.

The Europeans are going to meet on Thursday.

There's everything to play for.

But one of the things that's happening is that kind of stepping away.

And people are making choices literally today because we know what kind of security is going to happen and it's going to be mad.

And there's one faction which is leaving and there's another faction which is basically going to get locked into the conference center tomorrow.

And live with all of the insane American security.

Because the physical, other leaders come and go in Davos and there's a bad bubble around them.

Ivan will know this well.

But they don't change the whole thing.

The Americans tomorrow are going to put their boot print on the entire show.

And you can either choose to not be there for it or I'm not, this is no kind of heroics.

Like it's just literally who's going to be part of the Trump sleepover and who not.

And some of us are going to stay for the authoritarian sleepover show that is going to come descend on this place tomorrow.

No, the Chinese, I think, are doing the buffet tomorrow evening, and that is the buffet, I'm afraid.

As you would imagine, that is the buffet that you want to be at.

I mean, you might think that, and that would in a sense be a continuity with the Biden team as well, because they were talking in rather similar terms. I mean, Jake Sullivan had that famous speech where he talked about, you know, new Washington consensus, post-neoliberalism was all the rage.