How do you retain a space of democracy in a world that is reverting to violent conquest? By building a protective moat of federalism around it\u2018He keeps encouraging me \u2026 to choose between Europe and the US. That would be a strategic mistake for our country,\u201d Keir Starmer said in response to Ed Davey\u2019s question in the House of Commons last week, about whether a US move against Greenland would mean the end of Nato.What about Europe, though? As Danish and Greenlandic ministers prepared to face JD Vance in the White House, the question was would Europe finally choose between Europe and the US? Will its leaders have the courage to tell the full truth \u2013 that the US isn\u2019t simply abandoning its allies and destroying the international order but is now in the position of active and hostile predation by force \u2013 and more importantly, to act on it? To offer Denmark moral and material backing, and Greenland a future of self-determination and membership, rather than subservience to US resource plunder?
\nDonald Trump has already set the tone by saying the US will seize Greenland \u201cone way or the other\u201d, and no part of the triumvirate around him is trying to hide their imperial intentions any more. Not the nepotists and grifters amassing ever greater private fortunes. Not the white supremacist ideologues drawing inspiration from Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein F\u00fchrer! to post \u201cOne Homeland. One People. One Heritage\u201d, via official US government social media accounts. Not the techno-nihilists salivating to mine every bit of Greenland\u2019s mineral resources and rule their own neofeudal city states on its coast.
\nWhen Trump says that the only constraint on his exercise of power is \u201cmy own morality\u201d, that means there is no constraint. Like Vladimir Putin, he will keep grabbing until someone imposes a limit on him.Alexander Hurst writes for Guardian Europe from Paris. His memoir, Generation Desperation, is published this month Continue reading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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