When US President Donald Trump announced last week that American forces had unilaterally invaded Venezuela and captured its leader, Nicolas Maduro, many wondered what it said about the growing fragility of the international system. When, the very next day, Mr Trump repeated his long-standing position that the US "needs" to take control of Greenland, the system began to seem not just fragile, but outright brittle.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump circulated a memo to senior US officials a
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