"President Trump has been ramping up his Greenland threats in recent days, so everyone was hoping his keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday would provide some assurance that he wasn't about to tear apart the NATO alliance or invade the Arctic island. Thankfully, Trump did say that he "won't use force" to take Greenland. But there were plenty of other concerning, and concerningly dumb, moments in the speech."
"The president continued to insist that the U.S. must own Greenland and demanded immediate negotiations, vaguely threatening that if other nations stand in the way "we will remember." The other major theme was that basically everyone - Greenland, NATO, Canada, Switzerland, ICE-besieged Minneapolis - owes everything to Trump, so they should stop acting like lousy ingrates. And of course, there was plenty of the usual Trump inanity: he repeatedly called Greenland "Iceland," railed against windmills, and portrayed Joe Biden as history's greatest monster."
President Trump escalated public threats concerning Greenland but stated he "won't use force" to take the island. He insisted the United States must own Greenland and demanded immediate negotiations, warning that if other nations obstruct, "we will remember." He framed Greenland, NATO, Canada, Switzerland, and ICE-besieged Minneapolis as indebted to him and criticized them for ingratitude. He repeatedly misnamed Greenland as "Iceland," denounced windmills, and depicted Joe Biden as an extreme adversary. The remarks combined self-praise, vague threats, factual errors, and insults, raising concerns about implications for NATO and U.S. foreign relations.
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