U.S. President Donald Trump walks aft charter announcement for his Board of Peace inaugural aimed astatine resolving planetary conflicts, alongside the 56th yearly World Economic Forum (WEF), successful Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026.
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Amid the caller uproar implicit U.S. President Donald Trump's purpose of annexing Greenland, it's casual to suffer way of different geopolitical hostility that's been raging connected the European continent for astir 4 years: the Russia-Ukraine war.
On Friday, Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. ambassadors volition clasp trilateral talks successful the United Arab Emirates that volition past until Saturday.
Notably, Europe won't beryllium progressive successful the meetings. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, connected Thursday accused Europe of being "lost" and trying to transportation Trump to assistance them, alternatively than uniting for their ain defense.
On different front, Denmark connected Thursday signaled it was open to talks with the U.S. implicit its "Golden Dome" rocket defence plan, which is portion of the "deal" regarding Greenland that U.S. President Donald Trump had announced a time earlier.
But Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said that helium doesn't cognize what's successful the agreement — a effect shared by galore analysts and governmental watchers.
Ed Price, elder non-resident chap astatine New York University, told CNBC connected Thursday that striking a woody "requires 2 radical to tango," describing Trump's code astatine the World Economic Forum successful Davos, Switzerland, arsenic "a monologue not a dialogue."
Still, Trump walking backmost connected his tariff threats connected EU countries and toning down the rhetoric connected Greenland has lifted markets globally, reviving talks of TACO — "Trump Always Chickens Out" — trade.
The U.S. president besides signed his Gaza "Board of Peace" into being connected Thursday — and withdrew his invitation to Canada to articulation the board, conceived arsenic a means to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza aft a two-year warfare with Israel.
There's a flimsy dip successful the somesthesia astir Greenland, but geopolitical vigor persists elsewhere.
— CNBC's Kevin Breuninger, Anniek Bao, Lucy Handley and Hugh Leask contributed to this report.
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