Putin invited to join Trump’s global ‘Board of Peace’
20 January 2026
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Gaza and the US
For most of the West, they feel that this continues a pattern which they don’t want to see, which is the erosion of [global] institutions,” said Urban Coningham, a Middle East security and geopolitics analyst at the Royal United Services Institute think tank in London. “With this new Board of Peace, it’s very much Trump’s way or the highway.”

