Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. Today we examine the collapse of the American-led rules-based world order, such as it was, in real time.

Canada's prime minister pointed out that the emperor has no close and declared U.S. hegemony over, while Europe called Trump's bluff on Greenland,

all the more reason why he would prefer a fake board of peace that he can rule over as a worldwide plutocracy.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 45 minutes today

includes All In With Chris Hayes, CBC News, Reason to Resist, The Dig, Jackman

Radio, and Zateo.

Then, in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in five sections.

Section A, Greenland, or is it Iceland?

Followed by Section B, Iran in chaos and still a target.

Section C, Canada made an adversary.

Section D, the world moves away from the dollar, and section E, dying colonialist empire.

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And now, on to the show.

Donald Trump loves nothing more than to start a crisis that he could then claim credit for solving.

It's a go-to move of his, and today, we've got the latest example of this on the world stage.

Trump spoke to fellow global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, ranting about how much he wanted to own Greenland, insulting all the European countries who've objected,

going into weird tangents of like gutter racism, generally embarrassing himself and all of us

once again on the world stage.

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