It\u2019s been a turbulent start to the year for US foreign policy. Donald Trump recently renewed his public musings about annexing or buying Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory controlled by Denmark. The president\u2019s threats followed last month\u2019s US attack on Caracas and the rendition of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, as well Pentagon strikes that have killed almost 150 civilians across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific who the US has alleged were drug couriers. <\/p>\n
Trump has made plain his desire to further assert US dominance over the Western hemisphere. But in the case of Greenland, his saber-rattling is against a NATO ally. The Republican\u2019s reasons for coveting the huge island have swung from military to mineral and back again. In this Bloomberg Originals weekly documentary, we unpack these public justifications for once-unthinkable American threats against an ally, and the potential consequences for NATO and the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a turbulent start to the year for US foreign policy. Donald Trump recently renewed his public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[13058,26,13575,1584,13577,57,1111,504,13576,4247,1827],"class_list":["post-19443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-caribbean","tag-denmark","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-generic-1st-gc-future","tag-greenland","tag-military","tag-real-estate","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-venezuela","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}