I think Trump says some dumb things and fairly often. And also funny and occasionally wise things. But he rarely does dumb things. He usually calculates carefully, based on a lifetime of extremely tough business decisions and plans - it's his way.
But on Greenland stuff he has lost me totally. Greenland may have minerals, but mining them economically in that harsh environment is dodgy. IMO he would be much better removing endless Democrat law fare that has blocked US home mineral exploitation, even of precious rare earths for, decades. The US has huge untapped resources.
Threatening new tariffs has put on hold the EU-US trade deal that he negotiated much to US advantage. With his tariff powers under present scrutiny in the Supreme Court, this outraging of allies could tip more than one justice to tear up his entire tariff policy.
Yes Russia and China have huge artic designs and are implementing them physically. NATO/US have not been awake or planning for that. But Sweden, Norway, Finland and Canada are all Arctic ATO allies and not to alienated when surely by tough negotiation, the USA could get the bases and security guarantees it wants.
Many say this is just typical Trump overstating and blustering to get a negotiated advantage. Maybe but it seems more like an obsession st this point and endangering much between allies.
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