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Now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located,
that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection.
Today, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
President Trump laid out his most detailed case yet for why the United States should take over Greenland.
Trump said the US needs it for national security reasons,
and the US is owed it because of how much the country has given its allies.
It's a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades.
In the run-up to the President's speech, the leaders of Canada,
France, and the United Kingdom responded to what Trump has said and posted about Greenland,
including threats to tariff European trading partners over the issue,
and signaled it could lead to the end of a global order that's been in place since World War II.
The rules-based order is fading.
That the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.
When we look at the situation, it's clearly a very concerning time.
The use of tariffs against allies is completely wrong.
It is not the right way to resolve differences within an alliance.
So by the time Trump took the podium, so many friends, few enemies,
many of the prime ministers and presidents and senior executives in the audience were on edge.