Tom Nichols: “Donald Trump has loads of odd fixations, each as an individual and as a president. He tends to focus his tunnel imaginative and prescient on issues he desires: the demolishing of the White Home’s East Wing, the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. A lot of Trump’s quirks are innocent, if disagreeable. (He appears to hate canine, for instance, however nobody is forcing him to undertake one.) A few of his concepts, nonetheless, are extra harmful: His cussed and ill-informed attachment to tariffs has caused appreciable dysfunction within the worldwide economic system and harm lots of the American industries they had been supposed to guard.”
“However a couple of of Trump’s obsessions are terribly harmful, and certain none extra so than his dedication to grab Greenland from Denmark, a rustic allied to america for greater than two centuries. Maybe as a result of he doesn’t perceive how the Mercator projection distorts dimension on a map, the president thinks that Greenland is “huge” and that it should develop into a part of america. If Trump makes good on his recurring menace to make use of pressure to achieve the island, he wouldn’t solely blow aside America’s most essential alliance; he may set in movement a sequence of occasions that might result in international disaster—and even to World Conflict III.”
