How Trump’s Push on Greenland Could Reverberate in — Yes — the Middle East

Will whatever happens in Greenland stay in Greenland? It isn’t Las Vegas, and all bets are off.

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Donald Trump Jr., center, arrives at Nuuk, Greenland, January 7, 2025. Emil Stach/Ritzau Scanpix via AP

Until recently the most that people tended to know about cold and sparsely populated Greenland is that it is not small and also that it is not Iceland. It’s a frigid autonomous territory of Denmark, but self-governing. Now what Björk once did for Iceland Donald Trump is doing for Greenland — putting it on the map. This has predictably caused some friction with the Danes, but there could be consequences down the road a long way away from Nuuk. 

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