25 January 2026

Europe Faces the Gone-Rogue Doctrine

Thomas de Waal

The leader of the global superpower, nominally Europe’s largest ally, is directly threatening Europeans in Greenland. That much is obvious and dangerous—but what is much less clear is whether U.S. President Donald Trump actually has a plan.

One version has it that Trump harks back to an age of imperialism and sphere-of-influence politics where America is unconstrained: His intervention in Venezuela and threat to Greenland are his bid to relaunch the Monroe Doctrine and make himself emperor of the Western hemisphere.

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