Europe must not appease Trump on Greenland
By capitulating again, the EU and UK would signal that we are now irrevocably in a might-makes-right world
IT IS tempting to say that the transatlantic alliance has hit rock bottom. Unfortunately, it could have a lot further to fall.
US President Donald Trump’s threat to annex Greenland raised the once-unthinkable prospect that America could use its military to seize territory from Denmark – a Nato ally.
Several European nations responded by dispatching troops to the island – ostensibly as part of an exercise to bolster Arctic security. Trump’s counter-reaction was to accuse the European nations involved – which include France, Germany and the UK – of playing a “very dangerous game”.
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