This is The Guardian.

He certainly wants to terrify the international community and make them bend the knee.

We've seen the old world dying this week, but we have also seen the beginnings a glimpse of the new

one that is waiting to be born. In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between

have a choice. The middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on

the menu. He is the dominant figure of our time, but I think what you're now seeing is everyone

else saying,

how can we escape from this domination and being dominated? And the answer is for people to come together. And I think there's some hope to be taken from that. It's been a bumper week in the

Trump circus. And if you're feeling a bit bamboozled by all of the chaotic geopolitics,

you're not alone.

From The Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

I'm joined by Jonathan Friedland, Guardian columnist.

So, I mean, it has been a pretty staggering week, hasn't it?

We've had Davos, the World Economic Forum at Davos,

totally dominated by the Trump circus. We've had Greenland, the threat of Greenland, which then

receded. We've had the Board of Peace in Gaza. We've had new threats to NATO. He's now

turning his attention back to Ukraine. What a week? It's what Donald Trump loves,

the attention economy in which he is the global dominant player. He just loves it, being the

centre of attention. Davos was ideal for him. And indeed, actually, the Board of Peace Venture is

about, again, putting him at the dead center of world affairs with him playing the role of a kind of global emperor, sitting in on his throne, putting the thumbs up or the thumbs down, freeing peoples, conquering peoples, inviting them to, you know, sit at the top table, making global peace.

It's great power politics, but really great ego politics with him as the number one in all

respects. Yeah, and boasting at the signing of the Board of Peace in Davos of a richer, safer world.

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