Sovereignty on the skids: how Trump’s Greenland obsession reveals a deeper shift

Sovereignty on the skids: how Trump’s Greenland obsession reveals a deeper shift US President Donald Trump speaks to business leaders at the 56th annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. Photo: OSV News photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters. (Inset) - A drone view shows a general view of Nuuk, Greenland. Photo: OSV News /Marko Djurica, Reuters.

Donald J Trump is no political philosopher, nor would he have the slightest desire to be one.  As Prof. Sheri Berman of Bard College New York quipped last year about Curtis Yarvin, Trump is no Carl Schmitt.  Yet in relation to his obsessive desire to gain control of Greenland for the United States, however perversely,…

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