The King of Morocco Joins the Trumpesque Board of Peace

SOLIDMAR, January 20, 2026

 

A statement from the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced it on Monday, January 19: «His Majesty the King favorably responds to the invitation of President Donald J. Trump to become a Founding Member of the Board of Peace ». Thus, Mohammed VI joins Javier Milei and a few other rare heads of state willing to pay a one-billion-dollar entry fee to be part of the Trumpesque cupola.

Within the UN order, the Kingdom of Morocco is an integrated subordinate power: a strategic ally of the West, a stable postcolonial state, a cunning user of multilateralism, especially regarding the occupied Western Sahara. The weakening of the UN opens an opportunity for it: fewer binding norms, more direct negotiation (the Trump-style “deals”) with the center of power.

Western Sahara plays a central role: national cement, neutralization of social conflicts, a cross-cutting mobilizing myth. In the Trumpian order, Morocco adopts a passive revolution: no proclaimed rupture, silent adaptation, maximization of short-term gains. A rational calculation, but a risky one: abandoning a weak but lasting hegemony for a strong but contingent domination.

After the UN, a World Without Arbitration?

As with Al Capone after the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (February 14, 1929), the destruction of collective arbitration (for the Mafia, the Commission of families, the “cupola”; for today's world, the UN) does not produce a stable order, but a period of fragmentation, where force replaces the rule. The Peace Council does not announce a new world order; it signals the end of an old one, without a universalizable successor. For integrated postcolonial states, the danger is clear: what is gained today through personal loyalty can be lost tomorrow, when the godfather disappears and collective arbitration no longer exists. Beware of blowback.