In just a week, the president has floated financial reprisals for Mexico, Canada, Russia, Denmark and Colombia. The hostilities could backfire.
Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others are just idiotic.
A new poll found nearly half of Greenlanders see Trump's interest in the Arctic island as a threat; 85 percent don't want to become part of the US.
The call did not go well and Trump was aggressive and confrontational with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, FT reported.
It is now a weapon being used against us.” Trump’s skepticism about U.S. support for Ukraine and Taiwan, his eagerness to impose tariffs, and his threats to retake the Panama Canal, absorb Canada, and acquire Greenland make it clear that he envisions a return to nineteenth-century power politics and spheres of interest,
Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from Serbia’s Davis Cup encounter against Denmark due to a hamstring injury. Djokovic, who won the Davis Cup with Serbia in 2010, suffered the injury during his Australian Open quarterfinal victory over Carlos Alcaraz.
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Nancy Soderberg, a former United Nations ambassador and the director of the Public Service Leadership Program at UNF, joins Bruce Hamilton on Politics & Power this week to see if President Donald Trump is trying to gain the upper hand with China or even truly has an expansionist agenda.
Denmark's prime minister plans stops in Berlin, Paris and Brussels on tour of European capitals as Copenhagen moves to strengthen its presence in Greenland.
Freeland is also pushing Canada to “immediately publish” a detailed list of U.S. products that will be targeted in retaliation to Trump’s threatened tariffs. The northern nation is preparing a range of retaliatory levies, but it hasn’t issued a detailed list to the public.
For most of U.S. history, tariffs were a solution to specific economic problems. Washington used them to raise money and to protect U.S. industries from foreign competitors. And after World War II, presidents used tariffs selectively.
The United States has gone to war with the world. There’s no other way of putting it. I know columnists are prone to exaggeration, but one week on from Donald Trump’s inauguration, it is clear he is a danger to world peace. Such has been the blitz of initiatives from the White House that it is difficult to know where to begin.