Trump’s rambling Davos speech rehashes warped ideas of US supremacy

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Source: theguardian.com
Trump’s rambling Davos speech rehashes warped ideas of US supremacy

The president’s fixation on ‘piece of ice’ Greenland carries an echo of Vladimir Putin’s claims about Crimea

The good news headline from Donald Trump’s trip to Davos was that he seemed to rule out force for now in his urgent quest to acquire Greenland. The bad news: he started talking about Iceland as well.

What might have been a big reveal about the next step in Trump’s imperial ambitions was more likely a slip, though all speculation about the workings of the presidential brain is by now a guess at best.

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