"The announcement on 17 January that Washington will impose punitive tariffs of 10% to 25% on eight European allies unless they facilitate the complete and total purchase of Greenland is likely to be the death knell of the post-1945 transatlantic order. By linking the territorial sovereignty of a Nato ally to trade access, the US has transitioned from Europe's security guarantor to a 19th-century imperial rent-seeker. This is a moment of profound rupture."
"For decades, the western world believed that raw imperialism had been relegated to the past among advanced industrial powers. Even China, for all its assertiveness, largely couches its ambitions in the language of revanchism the reclaiming of lost territory. Washington's current demand for Greenland, by contrast, is a throwback to the age of the 1884 Berlin conference: a transaction of land and people driven by a might makes right worldview."
Washington announced tariffs of 10–25% on eight European allies unless they facilitate the complete purchase of Greenland. The policy ties a NATO ally's territorial sovereignty to trade access and shifts US posture from security guarantor to imperial rent-seeker. The demand evokes 19th-century imperialism and a Berlin-conference style transaction of land and people. Domestic pushback exists: Senator Thom Tillis criticized the coercion, and only 8% of Americans back using force to acquire the territory. European states face intense strain: Denmark has near-existential stakes, France and Germany risk market access, and eastern-flank tensions involve Poland and the Baltic states.
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