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In a rambling speech, the US president appears to be cooling on his bid to buy Greenland, but still had plenty of fire for a lot of people.
The stain of Donald Trump’s constant bullying of American allies will linger long after his administration is gone.
European leaders are sending markedly inconsistent signals in the face of clear provocation from the US.
“When they make a wasteland, they call it ‘peace,‘” wrote the Roman historian Tacitus, in a turn of phrase that a classics scholar says has been relevant for centuries – including right now.
For the time being, European leaders are indicating a path of de-escalation – bordering on appeasement.
A 1951 defense agreement between the United States and Denmark allows the US to build military installations on Greenland to protect the region.
The UK and Europe need a new strategy.
In 1951, the French Explorer Jean Malaurie witnessed the building of a US military base in Greenland in near total secrecy, which marked an irreversible turning point for Inuit societies.
Pragmatic realism called for compromise when it came to Venezuela, but there is no reasonable explanation for an invasion of Greenland.
How the US treats its allies has been a crucial question for every president. What evolved over the centuries into an official embrace of friendly nations is now being reversed by Donald Trump.
The president loves exercising power in the United States and abroad. But he’s tanking in the polls – and the November mid-terms may clip his wings at home.
The US remains unliked to take the semi-autonomous Danish territory by force. But there’s still plenty of room for a radical shift in the international order.
European troops are now landing in Greenland to defend it against real US military threat.
The US president promised Iranian protesters that ‘help is on its way’. It wasn’t.
As Trump threatens to take Greenland, the island’s Indigenous people say Denmark is making decisions about their future without them.
History also shows that many of the fanciful engineering ideas for Greenland failed because they misjudged the island’s harsh climate and dynamic ice sheet.
US wound down its presence in Greenland at the end of the cold war. Now it wants to beef it up again.
Mining and fossil fuel extraction both demand infrastructure that Greenland doesn’t have.
With no Antarctica-style treaty to protect Greenland, a US takeover could mean scientists lose access.
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