Europe Draws Red Line on Greenland

For the past year, European friends-turned-frenemies of the United States have delicately navigated one shock after another, hoping for the best as President Donald Trump threatened to lay waste to the global order.

When Trump scolded NATO allies, lambasted Ukraine’s president, laid on tariffs and framed ratified treaties as conditional deals, the go-to play by European leaders was to placate — with military spending pledges, trade concessions, disciplined summits, in language scrubbed of morality or judgment.

It wasn’t always elegant, or dignified, but the policy of strategic acquiescence seemed to be working, sort of. U.S. arms kept flowing to Ukraine, an all-out trade war was averted and Trump deigned to say some nice things about NATO.

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