Wall Street Journal Flags A Dark Downside To Trump’s Greenland Push | EUROtoday

The Wall Street Journal on Sunday warned how Donald Trump’s bid for the United States to take management of Greenland might backfire and finally profit Russia and China, the twin risk of whom the president has used as certainly one of his predominant causes for probably seizing the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

The newspaper’s conservative editorial board — which has slammed a lot of Trump’s commerce insurance policies in current months — acknowledged there are “good reasons for Washington to care about Greenland, including the island’s strategic position and untapped reserves of rare-earth minerals.”

But bullying supposed allied nations, together with by imposing new tariffs on the European international locations which have despatched troops to the island as a deterrent to doable U.S. aggression, isn’t the best way to go about it, it argued.

Russia’s decades-long dream of breaking the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance “is now a possibility as President Trump presses his campaign to capture Greenland no matter what the locals or its Denmark owner thinks,” it cautioned.

“The sad irony is that China and Russia may be the biggest winners,” it later lamented, noting how conventional allies akin to Canada and the United Kingdom are actually hanging nearer relationships with Beijing and signing free-trade offers amongst one another, impartial of the U.S.