Trump’s Greenland gambit is a sideshow the forces of freedom don’t need

 https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/opinion/trumps-greenland-gambit-is-a-sideshow-the-forces-of-freedom-dont-need/

We’re not loving President Donald Trump’s Greenland sideshow, and Wednesday’s White House talks don’t improve the plot.

Growling at the Danes won’t yield any better, and it’d be beyond nuts for Trump to actually use force — a guarantee that Democrats would win the House this fall, for starters, and maybe even gift them the Senate.

Fine, it’s very hard to read if the prez is in any way serious; maybe this is just his typical all-relationships-be-damned Trump “maximalist” negotiating tactic.

But it raises fears he’d blow up the Western alliance needlessly — and for all Europe’s modern errors, that alliance is one of history’s great successes. Abandoning it (what, to retreat to the American “sphere”?) is tantamount to handing the world’s future to freedom’s enemies.