Land Grabs
Thomas Jefferson urged peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, but entangling alliances with none. Are threats of punitive tariffs and territorial conquest the best ways to achieve that goal? Is Jefferson’s desire one Donald Trump even shares? Picking Fights That the US would purchase Greenland and reclaim the Panama Canal was initially perceived as typical Trumpian bluster. But the president seems serious. Denmark’s claim to its oversized iceberg derives from a few Viking landings more than a millennium […]