How Trump’s Greenland Threats Amount to an Implicit Rejection of the Legal Principles of Nuremberg

The defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg Tribunals. Photo: Raymond D’Addario. Public Domain.

U.S. President Donald Trump has, for the moment, indicated a willingness to abandon his threat to take over Greenland through military force – saying that he prefers negotiation to invasion. He is, however, continuing to assert that the United States ought to acquire ownership of the self-governing territory.

Trump has repeatedly raised the possibility of using military action, against both Greenland and Canada.