It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

We'll continue on the big global story that's dominating the news right now.

Yes, President Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos announcing

he has a deal of some kind on Greenland. Details remain vague. He established a so-called Board of

Peace, Donald J. Trump, chairman for life. And maybe more importantly, in the biggest picture sense,

he continued the abolition of the U.S.-led world order

that has existed basically since World War II. It's that bigger picture and its implications

for global security, which you've been hearing a lot about, but also American prosperity

that will focus on here as well as some of the developments that continue to break. Maybe the most

important clip to play is not of Trump himself at Davos, but of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,

whose much-noticed speech included this. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture,

not a transition. Great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons.

Tariffs is leverage.

Financial infrastructure is coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.

And he didn't say Trump or even necessarily the United States, but it was obvious what and who he was talking about.

And among other implications, as reported on Morning Edition today, Canada is buying electric vehicles

from China on the premise that China is a more reliable trading partner now than the United

States. How different is that from any world you've known before? One example of

the American prosperity implications as well. We'll get a take on all this from Robert Kagan,

contributing writer at the Atlantic, historian and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,

well known for decades as a leading neo-conservative, though I think he prefers the term

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