EU countries must 'cut the cord now' with Trump's America over Greenland threat: analysis
European countries were urged by a political analyst to cut ties with Donald Trump's America as the threats to Greenland continue.
Trump has suggested his administration will take Greenland "the easy way or the hard way" and has refused to rule out boots on the ground action. The president should be taken at his word according to columnist Alexander Hurst, who urged EU countries to stand their ground and choose the rest of Europe over Trump.
Hurst, writing in The Guardian, suggested EU leaders must stand against the new image of the US as an "active and hostile" threat to friendly nations. He wrote, "Will its leaders have the courage to tell the full truth – that the US isn’t simply abandoning its allies and destroying the international order but is now in the position of active and hostile predation by force – and more importantly, to act on it?"
"Donald Trump has already set the tone by saying the US will seize Greenland 'one way or the other', and no part of the triumvirate around him is trying to hide their imperial intentions any more."
Trump's rhetoric has made it clear where he stands too, with the president suggesting it is just his own "morality" that will affect his decision making the world over. Hurst added, "When Trump says that the only constraint on his exercise of power is “my own morality”, that means there is no constraint."
"Like Vladimir Putin, he will keep grabbing until someone imposes a limit on him." Hurst has since urged European countries to "maintain a space of democracy and the rule of law in a world that is rapidly reverting to imperialism, oligarchy, and the rule of power".
He wrote, "By boldly detaching from the US now, visibly and decisively, Europe might even send a resuscitative shock through the US’s ailing democratic corpus."
"Only Americans can save their country from a descent into something even uglier and deadlier than what we are witnessing already. But for everyone’s sake, theirs included, Europe must cut the cord now, and not follow them into the storm."