“European leaders have for months responded to President Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland with a simple refrain: it isn’t for sale,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Now, those same leaders are rushing to set up meetings with Trump about the future of the territory after the U.S. president threatened to bludgeon Europe’s economy with stiff tariffs.”
“The shift is the result of a familiar playbook for Trump: make audacious demands, threaten economic or military consequences if those demands aren’t met—then wait for his opponents to bend.”
Playbook: “We’ve seen the pattern so many times over the past 12 months — Trump taking an extreme position, creating a lot of noise, and then suddenly cutting a deal he can call victory — that it’s surely possible we’ll see it play out again here.”
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