When in 2019 Donald Trump first suggested that the US acquire Greenland, Europeans dismissed the idea as a bad joke. But they’re not laughing now.
My latest column for Brussels Times explains why Trump wants Greenland, how he might gain control of it, and what that would mean – not just for Greenland and Denmark, but also for Ukraine and the rest of Europe.
It concludes that in a world governed by force, Europe needs to be able to defend itself – not by 2035, but now.