How did the Western Alliance come to a crisis over Greenland, of all places — and, more important, how can it end productively? President Donald Trump has learned perhaps too well that Europe's political elites — the current governments in Britian and France, the dominate forces in the European Union and the left-leaning establishments across the continent — won't do a damned thing when it comes to hard power unless their noses are rubbed in the need. It took him nearly a decade of threatening to abandon NATO to get most member nations to start ponying up for defense at anything like needed levels. It took Russia's invasion of Ukraine to make them even think of reconsidering their Moscow-dependent (and economically suicidal) energy policies — don't forget how the Germans literally laughed off Trump's 2018 UN warning of the utter foolishness of becoming "totally dependent on Russian energy."

President Trump's slumping job approval numbers and the public controversies swirling around his second term in office are putting a strain on his relationship with GOP senators, who are looking for ways to distance themselves from the president heading into the November midterms. Republican lawmakers are pushing back on Trump and his administration on a dizzying range of issues, including the potential deployment of troops to Venezuela, the threat to seize Greenland, the criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, invoking the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis and capping credit card fees.

When President Trump vowed a "tide of change" in his inaugural address last year, he was not exaggerating. One year in, those changes are everywhere, often turbulent and polarizing, manifestations of the sharp right turn that Mr. Trump promised for the country and the world. The president has declared that his power is constrained only by his "own morality." That sentiment has made itself felt in the aggressive immigration enforcement in Minneapolis and other cities, which has led to one death. The Times found evidence of change in all 50 states, no place left untouched. This is by no means a complete list.

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Harmeet Dhillon, U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, called the mob's actions 'demonic and godless behavior.'

Germany has only deployed roughly a dozen troops to the island, it's likely that any Canadian presence would be even smaller.

Political rhetoric surrounding wealth and inequality increasingly reveals an emotive posture rather than an economic argument, since public discourse now treats success as a moral provocation and prosperity as a form of quiet aggression. Continue Reading...

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