00:00Donald Trump wants Greenland. No, he really wants Greenland.
00:05Europe's leaders are threatening to start a fight with Trump over Greenland, but they wouldn't win.
00:10European NATO members recently sent a handful of troops to this remote, ice-covered island
00:15to show a presence that somehow would persuade Trump to reconsider his
00:20plans to take over. But it backfired.
00:22Now Trump is threatening to hit some of America's
00:25closest allies with punitive tariffs unless they're given what he wants.
00:29Not surprisingly,
00:30a lot of Europe thinks it's now time to put its foot down and call out their US ally for what it has
00:35become, which is an abusive partner. They're right on almost every count.
00:40The hostile bid for Greenland stamps on core principles of international law.
00:45The possibility of NATO's Article 5 collective defense clause now hangs by a threat, but these
00:50are not the things that decide international affairs in our new Might Makes Right World.
00:55Power does.
00:56The EU just might be able to stare Trump down over Trump.
01:00The profit is of trade, forcing enough economic pain for him to start worrying more about his own
01:03political future than he wants.
01:05Europe's. But it remains all too dependent on the US for security, and the ugly truth
01:10is that he has the leverage that comes with power, and Europe doesn't. Nor is
01:15it clear that they will be able to remain unified. France may be willing to enter an all-out trade
01:19war with the US.
01:20But Italy, which is far more exposed economically, also sounds a lot less enthusiastic.
01:25Likewise for Poland and the Baltic States, although this time it's because of their exposure
01:30to Russia in the event of a US security withdrawal. Europe really needs to think this.
01:35It should consider the advice of the great Chinese military strategists
01:40Sun Tzu, never pick a fight that you can't win.
