This week, the US President-elect mooted an American invasion of a European country.
The self-governing Danish territory of Greenland, he said at a news conference on Tuesday, was essential to America’s national security and Denmark, he suggested, would do well to hand it over.
Would he rule out military or economic coercion?
“I can’t assure you on either of those two,” Mr Trump said.
He then questioned whether Denmark had any legitimate claim to the world’s largest island anyway, threatening to “tariff Denmark at a very high level” if it was unwilling to bend to his territorial demands.
That fairly blew a chill wind through diplomatic circles where…