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'Game of chicken': US 'embarrassed' after Trump went head to head with Europe — and lost
Greenland Was a Coercion Test, Not a Quirk of Trump’s PersonalityDavid Ignatius’s account is about a year of escalating U.S. pressure over Greenland, with Trump and his aides signaling that “all options” were on the table, Europe bracing for a crisis, and U.S. and Danish officials now edging toward a deal on American military bases. That is the surface story. The deeper story is who had power, who used it, and how quickly elite commentary turns state coercion into a personality drama.The Real Actor Was the StateTrump is the obvious aggressor here, but the institutional power was not his…
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