Greenland: The lasting damage of Trump’s tantrum

“So: Was it worth it?” asked Judson Berger in National Review. The long saga of President Trump’s fixation with owning Greenland appeared to end last week with a merciful whimper. In a rambling address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump not only withdrew his previous threats to annex Greenland through military force but also announced the cancellation of threatened tariffs against European nations who had opposed his plans to purchase the vast, semiautonomous island from Denmark.