From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Ketrewef.

This is the Daily.

For weeks, President Trump has been ratcheting up tensions across the world

by claiming he would stop at nothing in his quest to seize Greenland from Denmark.

Then on Wednesday, Trump appeared to back down, announcing that he'd agreed at least for now to an

off-ramp. Today, my colleague Mark Landler, on the dizzying ups and downs of Trump's Greenland Gambit

and why this whole saga may mark the beginning of a new world order.

It's Thursday, January 22nd.

Mark, what a week this has been.

Welcome to the Daily.

Thanks.

It's great to be back.

So in the last couple of days, we've seen this incredible pressure build over Trump's desire and stated intention to take over Greenland.

And then just today, Wednesday, we got this announcement that Trump and NATO had reached some kind of framework for a deal. And we don't know all that much about it, but just orient us. What do we know?

Well, you know, as you said, we don't know a great deal. There appears to be the outlines of an

agreement under which the U.S. would perhaps be granted some form of ownership or sovereignty,

if you will, over small pockets of land in Greenland,

probably U.S. military bases. And it appears that that would be something that would allow

President Trump to claim what he has wanted all along, which is some American ownership of Greenland, while for the Danish government

maintaining the reality of this situation, which is that this is Danish territory. So it appears

to be something that Mark Ruta, the NATO Secretary General, is trying to craft that will somehow mollify Trump while sort of

preserving Denmark's claim over Greenland, which was shaping up to be an unbreakable conflict

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