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War weighs heavy as apocalyptic mood falls on Davos

The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dominated this year’s World Economic Forum but it took George Soros to articulate what many of those making the trip to the Swiss Alps had been thinking.

Davos would not be Davos without a broadside from the 91-year-old philanthropist and former speculator, but the conflict in eastern Europe prompted his most apocalyptic warning yet. “The invasion may have been the beginning of the

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