Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.

Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.

Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.

From startups to scaleups, online, in person, and on the go. Shopify is made for

entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.

I was on a flight from Brussels to Washington yesterday, actually. And of course, because I'm a good

journalist, I eavesdrop on flights. And it was very

interesting, like, how much I heard people talking about the USAID thing everywhere I went on this

flight. Like, it was just like, it was the talk of the entire airplane. Even the flight attendants,

they were like, you know, pouring wine. Can you, have you heard? Can you imagine?

Yeah. like, you know, pouring wine. I'm like, have you heard? Can you imagine? Hello and welcome to the 538 politics podcast.

I'm Gailen Drunk.

In the first three weeks of Trump's second term,

some see the clearest crackup of the post-war world order to date. For proponents, that order was marked by a Pax Americana, during which America vastly

expanded its influence and promoted values that led to peace and prosperity for many. For critics,

America became a sucker, sitting idly by while domestic manufacturing

atrophied, and allies became dependent on American taxpayers for security and development.

Whichever way you look at it, the post-war era saw the growth of democracy and free trade,

an end to territorial expansionism, and a close partnership

between the United States and the West. So today, we're going to take a look at the start of

Trump's second term through the eyes of some of America's closest allies. Europe. In recent weeks,

Trump has floated annexing Greenland, threatened to launch a trade war with the European Union,

...