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J.D. Tuccille: Greenland is an economic basket case that Trump doesn’t need to ‘own’

President Trump insists America’s strategic security depends on bringing the icy island of Greenland under the American flag.There are a few problems with his plan. First, treaties with Denmark already allow a U.S. military presence in Greenland. Second, acquiring Greenland would burden the U.S. with political and economic obligations to a welfare-dependent basket case of a territory. Third, Greenlanders want to be American even less than they want to be Danish. And then there’s the stress placed by Trump’s latest tantrums on already frayed relationships with our allies.  Read More
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The activist class is conspicuously quiet about Iran: Full Comment podcast

Untold numbers of people demanding basic human rights have been killed by a corrupt, bigoted regime, but in the West there are no tent cities on campuses or raucous marches. As Iranian-Canadian human-rights lawyers Payam Akhavan and Kaveh Sharooz tell Brian Lilley, western leaders, and even U.S. President Donald Trump, are proving largely ineffectual at helping the people of Iran. For now, the regime still seems to have the upper hand against a populace mostly abandoned by the international community. And while this is much wider and deeper than previous uprisings in Iran, it could end just as tragically — or worse. (Recorded Jan. 15, 2025.) Read More
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