Once the bluster and bellicose posturing has cleared, Europe is left with the war of today, not the one that probably won’t happen tomorrow.
US President Donald Trump’s insistence he will not take Greenland by force, and his announcement of a sudden “framework deal,” should dampen fears that a full-scale US invasion and occupation is imminent. But the damage this episode of Europe-bashing and open colonial avarice has done is real and enduring.
There were hopes Davos would bring Trump together with Europe’s key leaders and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky around an $800bn “prosperity” deal for a peacetime Ukraine, and the cementing of US security guarantees for Kyiv. It did not. In a…