At first glance Greenland and Iran have little in common—one icy, the other with scorching deserts. Yet the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran may, unexpectedly, have strengthened President Donald Trump’s arguments that America needs to own Greenland—arguments he made most forcefully in January, horrifying European allies in NATO and the public—most of all in Denmark which owns the territory. So when some NATO allies declined to support the U.S. in its Iran war that began six weeks ago, Trump’s stated goal of better protecting the U.S. in a fast-changing geopolitical and technological era may just have made owning Greenland even more…
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