Hi, it's Manvine. A few hours after we recorded this episode, President Trump announced that he was axing the threat of the extra 10% tariffs on European allies, and that he'd struck a deal with NATO on the future of the Arctic.

We don't have any details of what that deal might be yet, but this episode gives you everything you need to know about how we got here

and some fascinating insights on what it all means for the future of the Transatlantic Alliance.

Enjoy.

From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.

I'm Manvine Rana.

Davos and the annual World Economic Forum it hosts

had been written off over the last few years as being irrelevant, unimportant, over. Well, not anymore. The skies above Switzerland

have been filled with the private jets of world leaders and business titans arriving for

a front row seat to the grand battle of the moment, the clash between America and its NATO allies

for the future of Greenland and the entire transatlantic alliance.

Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

The first round opened on Tuesday with that damning speech from the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney,

and a slew of European leaders fighting back against the threat of tariffs on any country opposed to America taking over Greenland.

This was not business as usual.

So many red lines are being crossed that you have the choice between your self-respect.

Being a happy vessel is wanting, being a miserable slave is something else.

And it wasn't just the Europeans.

Among the Americans arriving in Snowy Davos was the Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom,

a potential presidential rival who delivered an alarming wake-up call.

He's a T-Rex. You mate with him or he devours you. One or the other.

And you're a debate about?

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