What a week.

It started on a Saturday night, with a threat that landed like a grenade in Brussels.

Donald Trump announcing new tariffs on some European countries that backed Denmark over Greenland.

Suddenly, everything went into overdrive.

Like, I was at a reception in Flanders, and my phone was blowing up.

There was a flurry of diplomacy, capitals comparing notes, trading guests, pounding whiskey shots.

And in Brussels, a familiar question came roaring back.

Do you try to calm Trump down?

Or do you show some strength?

Should Europe reach for its so-called trade bazooka,

economic retaliation against the United States?

Or try, once again, to sweet talk its most unpredictable ally. European Council President Antonio Koste quickly called an emergency leader summit.

But even as that meeting was being hastily pulled together, all eyes were somewhere else, in Davos.

Because before Europe could decide how to respond, everyone wanted to hear what Trump himself

would say next in person at the World Economic Forum. And boy, did he have something to say?

In a rambling, let's be honest, sometimes incoherent speech,

Trump walked back the threat of using military force to get Greenland.

We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force,

but I won't do that.

Okay?

Now everyone's saying, oh, good.

Then, hours later, after talks involving NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta, he appeared

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