The town of Ilulissat, with its brightly coloured wooden houses, sits on the banks of a spectacular ice fjord at the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland. With a population o

KENNETH R. ROSEN

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS HAD HIS SIGHTS set on Greenland for years. He first offered to buy the island—an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark—in 2019 during his first term, in what he

What’s going on? No one is sure and many are too shocked to try and work it out. But the events of the past week look and sound awfully like the shattering of the 80-year-old Atlantic alliance. For ha

DONALD TRUMP’S PURSUIT OF GREENLAND started with an intelligence briefing in the Situation Room. It was early 2018, and rising Russian submarine activity and the increased presence of Chinese vessels

EVEN THE CANADIANS ARE DRAWING up plans for how they might respond to a U.S. invasion. That’s how spooked global leaders are right now about an unhinged flare of contempt from their typically allied c