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When Air Force One touched down in Zurich, Ursula von der Leyen was already gone, on her way to Brussels. Between the President of the United States and the President of the European Commission, there was no confrontation, no clash, no exchange of words. Just a missed connection in the Swiss skies that sanctions, perhaps definitively, the new transatlantic hierarchy: Europe is not an interlocutor. At best, it is a problem to be managed.
Norwegian Defense Chief Eirik Kristoffersen cooperates just as well with American colleagues as before, and says that nothing has changed in military cooperation with the United States. He tries to remain calm about NATO's future.
The hastily launched deployment of small military groups from several European countries to Greenland a week ago could, in all likelihood, turn into military exercises lasting up to a year or two—that is, until the US abandons annexation of the vast ice island or implements this plan by any available means.
Few people paid due attention when, in 2019, Donald Trump first stated that Greenland should be part of the States. True, when surfaced, the proposal arouse some criticism, with the Greenlandic Prime Minister stating that 'Greenland is not for sale' while still expressing openness towards US investments; but, even in Denmark and in Greenland, way more people treated the proposal as a blunder if not a joke.
The Canadian Army has modeled a scenario of a US military invasion of the country and Ottawa's possible responses, according to the Globe and Mail, as Donald Trump made another allusion to the possible conquest of Canada.
President Trump's demands for Greenland to be incorporated into the United States have rekindled fears in Norway regarding the fate of Svalbard, which first arose in 1944, when the USSR demanded a revision of the 1920 treaty establishing Norwegian sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago and the establishment of a joint administration regime. The crisis ended in 1947, when the USSR abandoned its intention...
The tariffs are a message to those who hoped that the alliance was even nominally important to Trump, writes Yle's US correspondent Juri von Bonsdorff.
Billy Long, the Trump administration's ambassadorial candidate to Iceland, who has not yet been confirmed by Congress, joked privately this week that the small Arctic nation could become the 52nd US state, apparently implying that Greenland, which still belongs to Denmark, could become the 51st state.
Some Inuit mothers in Nunavut are going without so that their children can eat, says a researcher looking into the universal food voucher program formerly utilized through Inuit Child First Initiative.
It appears that the military fever around Greenland is approaching a crescendo, amid the disappointing absence of Chinese and Russian warships and merchant vessels in the international waters surrounding the vast icy island.
