Will Trump expose Europe's hypocrisy?

It seems unclear if Europe will put pressure on the rest of the world to ‘take a moral stand’ and cut off their trading ties with the US, asks Krishna Vadlamannati

Vladimir Putin with Indian president Droupadi Murmu, left, and prime minister Narendra Modi at a ceremonial reception in New Delhi last year. India has made it clear that Europe does not get to decide the moral compass of the rest of the world. Picture: AP

A crisis is unfolding, not in some distant theatre of war, but right on Europe’s icy doorstep. Greenland - vast, strategic, sparsely populated, and politically tied to Denmark - has suddenly found itself at the centre of an alarming geopolitical threat.

Donald Trump, emboldened by the claimed success of a covert night raid in Venezuela, has made it abundantly clear he wants Greenland, and he wants it by hook or by crook. For now, it doesn’t look like an idle provocation. Trump has threatened massive tariffs on European countries should they resist his ambitions, and then somewhat rowed back these threats.