Noel King

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Today Explained, I'm Noelle King with Monica Duffy Toft.

She's a professor of international politics at Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and director of the Center for Strategic Studies.

All right, so it is unbelievably, Monica, still January of 2026, and we have had really significant events in Venezuela, in Greenland or over Greenland, with the EU and NATO.

And all of this is leading people to say President Donald Trump is trying to remake the world order.

What is the world order?

All right, so this is the thing that President Trump seeks to change or to undo or to disrupt.

You've written about a philosophy that you think is relevant right now.

What's the philosophy?

What's the sphere of influence that the U.S.

is seeking?

So we clearly want to have a lot of influence in Venezuela.

Greenland, the president has been very clear there as well.

Although he climbed down, he climbed down.

What other nations, what other regions do we see Trump wanting to have influence over?

And what does he want them to do or not do?

Okay, so this makes me wonder then, who are the other great powers?

Who are the other nations trying to influence the smaller nations here?

OK, so this gets interesting because it makes me think of the way she and Putin talk about their objectives in the world.