At the very heart of the World Economic Forum, on the stage
where the dogma of borderless globalization has been celebrated for years,
someone decided to say what no one wanted to hear. Howard Lutnick, the US
Secretary of Commerce, didn't go to Davos to ask permission or to repeat
slogans. He went to deliver an epitaph.
Without mincing words, without euphemisms, without
rhetorical embellishment:
"Globalism has failed."
He didn't say it in a whisper.
He didn't soften it.
He threw it straight in the face of those who built that
model and still profit from it.
In just a few minutes, Lutnick dismantled the WEF's sacred
narrative piece by piece:
Offshoring didn't make Western economies more efficient: it
drained them.
The obsession with cheap labor didn't drive innovation: it
destroyed it.
The Net Zero dogma did not strengthen Europe: it made it
dependent on China.
Sovereignty does not begin with speeches: it begins with
borders and real control.
And a nation that doesn't control its industry, its energy,
and its healthcare isn't truly free.
Then came the question that landed like a bombshell in the
room:
"Why would Europe accept Net Zero if it doesn't even
manufacture a battery?"
An awkward silence. Because that's the question globalism
can't answer.
What Lutnick brought to the table is the great contradiction
of our time:
Green agendas without an industrial base.
Climate commitments without economic sovereignty.
A moral stance while outsourcing productive power to
Beijing.
Talk of saving the planet while destroying the capacity to
produce.
Talk of values while handing over supply chains to others.
Talk of progress while relinquishing control of one's own
future.
And then came the clarification that many pretend not to
understand:
"America First" isn't isolation. It's
independence.
It's not closing the world off. It's ceasing to be a hostage
to it.
It's not rejecting trade. It's refusing to build one's own
prosperity on one's own weakness. The message was brutally clear:
The old model is exhausted.
The globalist experiment has failed.
And the future will not belong to those who write reports in
Davos, but to the nations that decide to put their people first again.
That day, on that stage, the World Economic Forum didn't
hear a speech.
It heard its own obituary.