With all due respect, Nathan, you are oblivious to what you just witnessed. You just observed Trump closing the deal he always intended to make. Do you think invading Greenland was Trump’s ultimate objective or do you think acquiring Greenland was? I doubt Trump was ever serious about invading to begin with, but even if he was, it was only as a means to an end. If he can achieve that end through negotiations instead, then all the better.
Trump is going to get exactly what he wanted. Any objective observer would call that a victory. Yet you have no idea how and why it happened. Is it just possible that talk of invasion was Trump’s way of getting Europe’s attention and perhaps putting a bit of fear into their minds so that they would be all to eager to negotiate a deal once he took invasion off the table? Of course it is.
“You just observed Trump closing the deal he always intended to make.”
Can you please explain what deal he just closed?