Playing with Fire and Ice

Many of Trump’s moves are wildly unpopular. That includes the threat to take over Greenland. “The president’s obsession with Greenland is especially dangerous because it has no real constituency: Trump is determined to get the island, it seems, only because Denmark and the rest of the world are telling him that he can’t have it. As is so often the case, telling Trump not to do something makes him more determined to do it.” Tom Nichols in The Atlantic (Gift Article): Trump Is Risking a Global Catastrophe. “Most Americans probably couldn’t care less about Greenland, but they will be forced to care—tragically, too late—if Trump’s gambit engulfs the world in flames.”