Trump’s case for a Greenland invasion is utter hogwash

Despite what the U.S. president says, Greenland is a region of zero strategic importance. If Washington wants to base more troops there, it has only to ask: the treaty says it can have an unlimited number of bases and troops in the territory.
President Donald Trump has insisted that the United States needs ‘Greenland from the standpoint of national security.'

LONDON, U.K.—The Crazy Gang are high on the “brilliant success” of their Venezuela caper and are looking for new targets. Like Alexander the Great, Donald Trump weeps because there are no more worlds for the American president to conquer. But wait! Actually, there are ...

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