"The agreement is just another mechanism for US president to do what he wants, when he wants"
"His menacing plan (abandoned for now) to seize Greenland from Denmark, the "easy way" or the "hard way", shows why that characterisation has become so widely accepted outside his MAGA base."
"As if to refute the allegation, Trump last week rolled out a Board of Peace designed - as he wrote in a gushing invitation letter to the prime minister of Sweden - to "bring together a distinguished group of nations ready to shoulder the noble responsibility of building LASTING PEACE"."
Donald Trump is widely characterized as a warmonger and a rogue leader who acts in defiance of international law and global opinion. His menacing plan to seize Greenland from Denmark, described as the "easy way" or the "hard way", was proposed and later abandoned. That episode alienated audiences outside his MAGA base. Trump then rolled out a Board of Peace and sent a gushing invitation to the prime minister of Sweden to "bring together a distinguished group of nations ready to shoulder the noble responsibility of building LASTING PEACE". The contrast between aggressive initiatives and peace rhetoric conveys that agreements can function as mechanisms for the president to act when and how he chooses.
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