Keeping cool in a disordered world

Centrestage: Trump speaking in Davos on Jan 21. As the world has come to expect, the US president stirred things up, talking about a ‘deal’ to take over Greenland and launching the highly selective ‘Board of Peace’. — Reuters

WE are living in extraordinary times. There is much to take in about events that have unfolded in the last one year, most of them arising from just one source.

He touts himself as a man who has stopped wars around the world and has demanded the Nobel Peace Prize. And to kick off his second year in the White House, Donald Trump sent American troops into a sovereign nation to snatch a sitting president, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and wife Cilia Flores, and take them forcibly to the United States.