00:00You would have thought Zelensky would be the talk of the town when world leaders landed in Davos.
00:06War in Ukraine, Middle East unstable, global economy wobbling.
00:11But no.
00:13The man who hijacked Davos wasn't Volodymyr Zelensky.
00:18It wasn't Vladimir Putin.
00:20It wasn't Xi Jinping.
00:22It was Donald J. Trump and his obsession with Greenland.
00:30You know what I'm saying, don't you?
00:38Europe is no longer talking about Ukraine.
00:41Europe is no longer talking about Gaza.
00:44Europe is no longer talking about Venezuela.
00:46The only thing Europe is talking about is defending Greenland from a hostile takeover by its own ally.
00:55Yes, the United States of America.
00:58Yesterday, a Danish military plane landed in Greenland carrying Denmark's top defense officials, including Major General Peter H.
01:06Boysen himself.
01:08You know what that means.
01:10A NATO country is now deploying its top army official in a tactic aimed at defending its own territory from another NATO country, from the United States.
01:20Who would have thought two weeks ago that we would be seeing this unfold in real time?
01:26You would have laughed, right?
01:28Absurd.
01:29Completely unthinkable.
01:31Or maybe.
01:32Maybe it's just the inevitable result of putting the world's biggest ego back in the Oval Office.
01:39Because everyone knows, Donald Trump does not do subtle.
01:43He does not do diplomacy.
01:45He does not do restraint.
01:47He does domination.
01:48And now he's made it more than clear.
01:52Peace is no longer his priority.
01:54And this is a man who just a few months ago was positioning himself as the president of peace.
02:00Remember, I'm the president of peace.
02:02In an extraordinary letter dated 19th of January, Trump wrote directly to Norway's prime minister,
02:08linking his Greenland mission to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
02:15Trump says,
02:16The Nobel Committee's rejection has freed him from the obligation to think only about peace.
02:22I'm going to quote the exact line.
02:25Considering your country chose not to award me the Nobel Peace Prize for halting eight wars and more,
02:31I no longer feel beholden to think solely about peace.
02:35I can now consider what is beneficial and right for the United States.
02:40Translation.
02:42No Nobel.
02:43No peace.
02:44No restraint.
02:46This letter was quietly circulated to European ambassadors in Washington
02:50by U.S. National Security Council staff,
02:54effectively broadcasting Trump's new doctrine to America's allies.
02:59You didn't crown me?
03:01I stopped playing nice.
03:02Maybe part of that not playing nice is taking someone else's Nobel.
03:08I'm sure you remember how furious Trump was that the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
03:13went to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado instead of him.
03:19Trump got Maduro out but didn't put Machado in his place.
03:23Message received, I guess, because within days, Machado was at the White House,
03:27handing over her Nobel Medal to Trump, which he accepted despite Nobel rules banning transfers.
03:35Who cares, right?
03:36Trump may have wanted recognition from the Nobel Committee,
03:39but he's certainly not going to recognize their rules.
03:42And this holds for every single global institution.
03:46Then came the leaked messages.
03:50Trump posted screenshots of private messages from NATO Secretary General Marc Routet
03:55and French President Emmanuel Macron related to Trump's Greenland plans.
04:00You've probably already seen Macron's message.
04:03My friend, we are totally in line on Syria.
04:05We can do great things on Iran.
04:08I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.
04:12Wow.
04:13Trump posted that.
04:15Along with an AI-generated image of himself towering over European leaders
04:19with the American flag superimposed over Greenland.
04:24Subtle as a sledgehammer.
04:27Forget about burning bridges.
04:28This is burning the bridge and scorching the earth and salting the ruins after that.
04:33But you know who is loving every single second?
04:38Vladimir Putin.
04:39Putin's spokesperson has suggested that annexing Greenland would secure Trump
04:44a permanent place in world history.
04:47Not American history.
04:49World history.
04:50Music to Trump's ears.
04:52There is a very good reason why Russia would want to add fuel to Trump's Greenland fantasy.
04:58Because while all of this theater plays out,
05:01Zelensky is screaming into the void.
05:05He's been warning of a massive Russian strike.
05:07He's asking Europe to keep its eyes on Ukraine.
05:11But Europe?
05:12Europe is too busy watching Trump redraw the map of the Arctic.
05:17Trump says Denmark can't protect Greenland.
05:20Trump says history gives America the right to take it.
05:24Trump says NATO exists because of him.
05:26Trump says if the US doesn't take Greenland, Russia or China will.
05:32Russia is only too happy to play along with that narrative for the moment.
05:37Because Western attention on Greenland means less focus on Ukraine.
05:42And trying to handle Donald Trump makes Putin look like an angel in comparison.
05:46At least he hasn't leaked any panicky text messages.
05:50So that's Russia.
05:52What about China?
05:53The other bogey that Donald Trump is raising.
05:56China's response on Greenland has been sharp and swift.
06:01Stop using China as an excuse to grab other people's land.
06:05But the real subtext here is
06:07the unique power equation that's developed between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
06:12Since Trump returned to office,
06:14there have been very, very few instances where he's had to make concessions.
06:19And in the months of confrontation with China,
06:22Xi Jinping has made Donald Trump back down.
06:25Not once, but twice.
06:28When China dumped US treasuries,
06:30Trump froze his tariffs.
06:31When China restricted rare earths,
06:34Trump flew to meet Xi.
06:35So maybe it's not as simple and linear as that,
06:40but the pattern is pretty clear.
06:43Everyone else gets threats.
06:45China gets negotiations.
06:47And now, while Trump destabilizes Europe,
06:50Canada is benefiting too.
06:52Not as overtly as Russia with its Ukraine focus,
06:56but substantially.
06:57The UK government has just approved China's super embassy in London.
07:01And look at the landmark trade deal China just signed with Canada.
07:06Tariffs cut, barriers removed,
07:08strategic partnership, visa-free travel.
07:11A few weeks ago,
07:12Canada was sending the US 70% of its exports.
07:15Today, Carney is making deals with the country
07:17he once called Canada's biggest security threat.
07:21China is literally making money off Trump's foreign policy.
07:25So here we are.
07:27Ukraine is burning.
07:28The Middle East is boiling.
07:30The Arctic is militarizing.
07:33NATO is cracking.
07:35Europe is confused.
07:36China is calculating.
07:38Russia is smiling.
07:40And Donald Trump?
07:41He is chasing a Nobel Prize with an aircraft carrier.
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07:53is changing in front of our eyes.
07:56And we need to make sense of it together.
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