What really happened this week in global politics? Essentially nothing.
Not that the breaking-news media would have you think that. Nor the chorus lauding Davos’ renaissance on the world stage.
Consider this:
At the start of the week, Greenland remained Danish. No one had invaded it. Today, there’s apparently a framework of a concept of a deal for … what? We don’t know. Neither do the Danes, nor the Greenlanders. Nothing changed.
The American president threatened tariffs. Europe proposed counter-measures. Markets suffered. Today? No tariffs. Markets rallied. Nothing changed.
If you followed the news for 48 hours, you’d have thought a hot war started, played out, and ended.
I’m not diminishing the real challenges reshaping the world. But ask yourself: Has your news consumption this week left you more informed—or just more anxious?
Important things do happen. The news cycle just doesn’t help us tell which ones matter.
