Incoming US president and oligarch ally are wreaking diplomatic havoc among Washington’s beholden allies
Europe has been braced since the US presidential election in November for the challenge posed by Donald Trump’s return, but the threat to European stability has come earlier and appears far more serious than predicted, even by the pessimists.
Trump has already revived his territorial aspirations for Greenland, making clear they were not some bad-taste joke from his first term, but unfinished business which he intended to resolve by whatever means necessary, even military.
