The beginnings of the great Greenland climbdown
Trump’s rambling Davos speech was vaguely menacing rather than explicitly threatening
Trump’s rambling Davos speech was vaguely menacing rather than explicitly threatening

US president tells audience in Davos that a possible purchase should not be seen as a threat to Nato

He pulled back on Greenland, but a rupture of the old order is under way

By capitulating again, the EU and UK would signal that we are now irrevocably in a might-makes-right world

European leaders criticise stance on Arctic island, with French president taking aim at ‘useless aggressivity’

US move on the island would be a breach of the transatlantic alliance

Behind the crisis caused by Donald Trump’s threats is a much bigger change: the waning of US hegemony and the coming of a…