Trump’s board of peace is flailing – just like the president

from The Independent

The glittering jewel in Donald Trump’s (self-declared) crown was his “board of peace”, a multi-country body nominally created to implement a truce plan for war-ravaged Gaza, but with a global remit.

Inaugurated in a grand ceremony in January in Switzerland, signatories heralded from 19 countries, including Hungary’s former authoritarian leader Viktor Orban, the head of Gulf states, Mongolia and Azerbaijan.

Among the glaring absences were some of America’s closest Nato allies, including the UK, alarmed by Russia’s potential membership and the board’s role “beyond Gaza”.

Concerns were that the charter was so broad it amounted to an attempt by Trump to replace the United Nations (an institution he has made no secret of hating) with his own private members’ club. Trump had declared: “We can do pretty much anything we want to do.”

But fast forward to May, and as Trump overcomplicates an already impossibly hard peace deal in Iran, his Board of Peace brainchild is flailing.

It seems a bit broken: promised US funding has reportedly yet to materialise, other funds are frozen, and its mission is “stuck in limbo”...

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