Davos Will Not Be coming to Dublin

Terminally Deluded.

Larry Fink, the WEF chairman, suggested the World Economic Forum might come to Dublin.

Davos is not coming to Dublin. If it has any sense of self‑preservation, it will not even come within a Ryanair flight delay of Dublin. Larry Fink can stand on a Swiss balcony and muse about bringing the global rich to “where the modern world is actually built,” but dropping them into Ireland’s security set‑up would be like parking a Ferrari in a field full of drunk farmers on tractors. Davos is not coming to Dublin. It will not descend from its Alpine aerie to roost on the Liffey; it will not shuffle its procession of billionaires and bureaucrats through rain‑slicked streets between a branch of Spar and a shuttered vape shop. You do not bring the high sacrament of global capital to a place that cannot quite guarantee that the sky will remain empty when a man like Volodymyr Zelensky gets off a plane.

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