Damian Paletta

Can they band together?

Can

Europe and Canada actually decouple from the United States.

These are the sorts of conversations that are actively taking place at Davos and around the world right now as President Trump

prepares to kind of draw his line in the sand or his line in the snow, so to speak, when he says, you know, what his actual plan is for Greenland.

How is he going to proceed with Russia and Ukraine?

You know, all these things kind of click together.

Can the new world order replace an old world order that was much more cooperative and maybe slow moving, but much more of an alliance?

You know, how does it work if the U.S.

isn't a part of that, isn't leading that alliance anymore?

No.

In fact, it's really interesting you ask that because I think there's a view in the White House that they're not exactly sure where Trump wants this to end.

And so one of the frustrations for European leaders is that they don't know who to be negotiating with here.

Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, has made comments in recent weeks that are much more cautious.

You know, we're not going to use the military.

This is something Trump wants to buy, Greenland.

But then when President Trump speaks, it's a much more, you know, maybe we'll use the military.

I'm not going to take anything off the table approach.

And so it's hard for the Europeans to know exactly who to negotiate with.

And that's why President Trump going to Davos here is such a key moment for the whole conversation, because they'll see how serious he is and what his ultimate objectives are.