'Nonsensical': WSJ warns Trump's 'reckless risk' could make a Russian dream come true
President Donald Trump is taking a "reckless risk" by trying to acquire Greenland, one that could make one of Russia's biggest dreams come true, warned the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board on Sunday.
Trump has relentlessly pursued acquiring Greenland, either by force or negotiation, during his second administration. Recently, Danish ambassadors traveled to the White House to negotiate with Trump. Trump's efforts to acquire the country have also inspired the "Make America Go Away" campaign in Denmark, according to reports.
The Journal's editorial board warned in a new editorial that Trump's push to acquire Greenland could also make one of Russia's biggest dreams come true, ending the North American Treaty Alliance.
"For more than 75 years, the fondest dream of Russian strategy has been to divide Western Europe from the U.S. and break the NATO alliance," the editorial reads. "That is now a possibility as President Trump presses his campaign to capture Greenland no matter what the locals or its Denmark owner thinks."
"Mr. Trump is taking reckless risk with the NATO alliance that advances U.S. interests in the arctic," it continued. "If he doesn’t believe us, he can look up Norway, Sweden and Finland in an atlas. The latter two joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization recently, and already are discovering that with Mr. Trump no good strategic deed goes unpunished."
"The economics are nonsensical too," it added. "All of the countries on his tariff list except for the United Kingdom are members of the European Union with a common trade policy. This means any tariff he imposes on those countries will have to extend to the entire 27-member bloc. So much for the trade deals Mr. Trump negotiated to great fanfare last year with the EU and the U.K."