Dan Perry
For years, Europe has responded to Donald Trump with a mixture of eye-rolling, damage control, and hope that the nightmare would somehow pass. The strategy was pacification: smile through clenched teeth, wait out the tantrums, and reassure one another that institutions would hold. That strategy is now breaking down—and it should.
The latest rhetoric this week out of Washington, openly entertaining the use of force to seize Greenland, has snapped what remained of the illusion that this is merely bluster. It is something worse: a declaration that allied territory is a prize and that treaties are optional when power is available.
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