“For more than 150 years, U.S. officials have been trying, as President Trump puts it, to ‘get’ Greenland,” the New York Times reports.
“The idea came up in the 1860s, then again before and after the world wars. In a way, the timing couldn’t be better than now, with Greenlanders re-examining their painful colonial history under Denmark and many itching to break off from Denmark, which still controls some of the island’s affairs.
”“But President Trump seems to have overplayed his cards — big time.”