Trump’s Greenland gambit is a sideshow the forces – Latest News
We’re not loving President Donald Trump’s Greenland sideshow, and Wednesday’s White House talks don’t improve the plot.
After assembly with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Greenland Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt, Lars Rasmussen, Denmark’s international minister, ruefully remarked that his nation and the United States have a “fundamental disagreement” over Greenland; Motzfeldt says the similar.
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Hours earlier than the sitdown, Trump again introduced that our nation “needs Greenland,” although each signal is that the Danes are past comfortable to let Washington add bases there, take part exploiting rare-earth deposits and just about something America would possibly need Greenland for.
Growling at the Danes received’t yield any higher, and it’d be past nuts for Trump to truly use power — a guarantee that Democrats would win the House this fall, for starters, and perhaps even reward them the Senate.
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Fine, it’s very laborious to learn if the prez is in any method severe; perhaps this is simply his typical all-relationships-be-damned Trump “maximalist” negotiating tactic.
But it raises fears he’d blow up the Western alliance needlessly — and for all Europe’s fashionable errors, that alliance is one of historical past’s great successes. Abandoning it (what, to retreat to the American “sphere”?) is tantamount to handing the world’s future to freedom’s enemies.
Rasmussen and Motzfeldt left the assembly for some severe chain-smoking; if this retains up, we would be a part of them.
