Imagine you’re Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and you woke up a year ago having magically been given command of puppet strings that control the White House. Your explicit geopolitical goal is to undermine trust in the United States on the world stage. You want to destroy the Western rules-based order that has preserved peace and security for 80 years, allowing the US to triumph as an economic superpower ….. What exactly would you do differently with your marionette other than enact the ever more reckless agenda that Donald Trump has pursued since he became president last year?
Nothing.
The article goes on to point out that Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, is part of a larger chain of events that is ruining the international standing of the US. Under Trump, the US is self-immolating by torching global trust and friendships, especially NATO. Regarding Greenland, polling indicates that annexing Greenland is very unpopular with Americans. About 17% support that idea.
Link to article: https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-has-fully-set-fire-to-what-made-america-great/