Greenland talk dominates among world leaders while Ukraine takes a backseat

The United States and Europe are engaged in a dispute over the Trump administration’s desire to “own” Greenland, taking attention away from Ukraine as it suffers through another brutal winter of Russian troops targeting its infrastructure.

Leaders from around the world, excluding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, descended on Davos, Switzerland, this week for the World Economic Forum, where the primary storyline has been President Donald Trump‘s insistence that the U.S. needs to acquire the Arctic island for national security purposes. Trump even went so far as to decline to rule out military force to achieve that objective.

At the same time, however, Trump and his team’s efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war have continued without demonstrable progress or success. And Russian officials are rejoicing in the