Natalie Kitrow

From The New York Times, I'm Natalie Ketroef.

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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.

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?

And the upshot is, at least as far as we know for now, that they've reached some kind of agreement that falls way short of the United States owning all of Greenland.

But there is some kind of compromise that's been made.

So it's been a head spinning day.

It's been a head spinning week.

Let's talk about how we got to this point.

Why does Trump want Greenland so badly?

Can you explain that?

And is he right, Mark, that owning Greenland would somehow secure all of these new benefits?