Trump's Attention-Driving Strategy

Before his trip to Davos this week, Donald Trump threatened tariffs, and even hinted at using military force, to take over Greenland. The US president’s fixation ripped open a diplomatic wound that has been growing steadily over the past year. The Council on Foreign Relations' Benn Steil and the FT’s US foreign affairs correspondent Abigail Hauslohner explain how this week may have reshaped the western world permanently. 

Mentioned in this podcast:

‘Waiting for the king’: how Trump dominated Davos 

Broad mandate of Trump’s Board of Peace sets it up for rivalry with UN

Read Benn’s column in The Dispatch

Credit: The World Economic Forum, Roll Call

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