"The U.S. played a starring role in these international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank and NATO. "In this treaty, we seek to establish freedom from aggression and from the use of force in the North Atlantic community," Truman said at NATO's founding in 1949 in Washington, D.C. That NATO community, then and now, includes Greenland, a semiautonomous territory that for three centuries has been part of Denmark, a NATO member."
"Yet President Trump has a different take. "We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not. Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland," Trump said recently. Many foreign policy analysts are critical of Trump's call for U.S. control of Greenland. Yet the president has doubled down, in keeping with his aggressive, unilateral approach to foreign policy."
""You can make an argument that Trump's version of shock therapy was necessary to get U.S. allies out of the world of complacency that they had been living in for far too long," said Hal Brands, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington. "The challenge, though, is that if you don't pair that with reassurance, you risk hollowing out the credibility of these alliances instead of improving them.""
President Harry Truman built a U.S.-anchored global order after World War II by establishing or supporting institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank and NATO. NATO's founding commitment aimed to secure freedom from aggression and included territories like Greenland, a semiautonomous part of Denmark. President Trump proposed a U.S. effort to control Greenland to preempt Russia or China and characterized many multilateral institutions as burdens that constrain swift, decisive action. Analysts criticized the Greenland proposal and described Trump's posture as aggressive and unilateral. Some argue shock therapy pushed complacent allies to act, while others warn that without reassurance such tactics hollow alliance credibility.
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