President Donald Trump’s posturing over Greenland has irrevocably changed the transatlantic relationship, even after he backed away Wednesday from his threats of a US takeover of the Danish autonomous territory, European officials told CNN.
One European diplomat, speaking anonymously, described the last week as a “whirlwind of absurdity that damages transatlantic relations, distracts from Ukraine and makes China and Russia very happy.”
Tensions between the United States and its European allies, bound together under the collective security umbrella of NATO, reached a fever pitch last weekend when Trump threatened to impose tariffs on the nations opposing his ambitions to annex Greenland, a vast,…