Europe Contends With a Big New Threat: the U.S.

“President Trump’s demands that Denmark hand over Greenland to the U.S. or risk a trade war and possible military action is confronting Europe with the unthinkable: Its major ally for more than 70 years has turned into one of its most urgent threats,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The collapse of trust in the U.S. over the past year among the European public and its leaders is forcing the continent to re-examine its reliance—from security to trade—on America under an unpredictable Trump administration that has expressed an antipathy toward Europe and is now insisting on taking an ally’s territory.”