Venezuela, Greenland... could Ireland be next?

Trump is bringing us back to the future with his unbridled mercantilist and colonial expansion plans. Ireland is vulnerable, writes Vittorio Bufacchi

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and US president Donald Trump during the St Patrick's Day reception in the White House last year: Not being part of Nato, Ireland is even more vulnerable than Greenland.

According to Article II, Section 2, Clause I of the American Constitution, President Donald Trump is "Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States". According to the rest of the world, he is Bullshitter-in-Chief. 

For many years, Trump has entertained some of the most ridiculous, abstruse, mind-boggling claims about a range of issues, from climate change to cures for covid-19. He has been ridiculed, derided, mocked and scorned for making statements that defy both common sense and scientific research. And yet, occasionally, even Donald Trump tells the truth.