Rory Stewart

So he begins by saying, we need to understand that the UK needs to be much closer to Europe.

And he talks very explicitly about the fact that Europe's got far too many different national defense systems when the US has one frigate

one advanced fighter jet, etc.

And that needs to be sorted out.

But he then says some people talk about rupture.

The person who talked about rupture is, of course, Mark Carney.

And that was Mark Carney and Davos a few weeks ago.

And I disagree.

And I think we need, and he then explicitly says, we cannot break the transatlantic relationship.

We need to remain very, very close to the United States.

But what was interesting is that he didn't, in a way that Merz did, Stubb is now doing, the president of Finland, and certainly Carney, he doesn't at any point in the speech really call out the US.

He doesn't say, as everybody is here.

still, Greenland is the game changer.

One of the interesting things I feel with European colleagues when I've been talking to them both in meetings and outside meetings and late at night is

Their take on Metz's speech is he needs to buy time.

He needs to get an EU-US trade deal across the line.

So he doesn't want to unnecessarily offend Trump until that's done.

But they are in absolutely no doubt that the world changed with Greenland.

And you get that sense with Stob 2, the point at which the United States signaled in the lead up to Davos that it was prepared to annex somebody else's sovereign territory.

It was a game changer.