Davos discussions take place amid uneasy backdrop as Trump surges in Iowa

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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy with Blackstone chief executive Steve Schwarzmanleft (left), JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon (second left) and ArcelorMittal chief executive Lakshmi Mittal on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Photograph: Chiara Albanese/Bloomberg As high-powered Davos meetings go, this won’t go down as the most important but it seemed to symbolise something about the world right now, the vagaries of human experience, the ivory tower remove of Davos itself. On one side, the leader of war-torn Ukraine, battling for its very survival against a military superpower and under constant threat of assassination himself. On...