The Greenland gambit could leave America stranded

The Greenland gambit could leave America stranded


President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will neither invade Greenland nor impose tariffs on European countries to force a sale of the island came as welcome news for conservatives and America’s European allies. That doesn’t mean that everything is hunky dory.

A few facts remain clear. The president of the United States threatened a NATO ally with invasion, with neither just cause nor congressional authorization. He sent a bizarre text to the Norwegian Prime Minister, seemingly tying his potential actions against the Danish territory to the Nobel Prize committee’s decision not to award him a peace prize last year, something the Norwegian government has nothing to do with. His tariff threat was another arguably unconstitutional act, as no possible congressional delegation of its tariff-setting power has

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