With allies like this, who needs enemies?
US president Donald Trump’s bullish efforts to “buy” Greenland are, he claims, motivated by his desire to protect the western hemisphere from the security threat posed by China and Russia. Yet, at the weekend he became the sole architect of an act of diplomatic cannibalism on Nato. Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin must be really enjoying watching the American and European alliance eat itself. The US president is determined to gain an island, even at the cost of losing the world.
Ireland, which is not a member of Nato, is of course not included in the eight countries which are now being threatened with 10 per cent and possibly even 25 per cent tariffs on goods exported to the US. Those countries were specifically chosen by Trump in retaliation to a comparatively small Nato military exercise carried out in Greenland last week.
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