Wall Street Journal: “President Trump has backed down—for now—from his threats to use economic or military coercion to take over the Danish territory of Greenland. But few people in this seafront city are celebrating their tactical victory.”
“The shock of the U.S.’s raw expansionist ambition still hangs in the air, like the gulls at Nuuk’s harbor scouring the fishing boats for scraps of seal meat.”
“What rankles most, say many Greenlanders, is that Trump treated their home—which he called ‘a piece of ice, cold and poorly located’ —as a commodity.”
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