Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Donald Trump does not appear to be backing down from his obsession with seizing a big chunk of real estate in the form of Greenland. He now is set on whacking American consumers with another big tax hike in the form of $75 billion in tariffs on imports from the European countries most vigorously defending the status quo with Greenland and Denmark.

To be clear, contrary to what you read in the newspaper, these tariffs are taxes on us, not the exporting country. That fact might be too complicated for Donald Trump and little children, but we are the ones who pay the tariff. Losing some of their export market is a negative for the countries targeted, but at this point everyone in the world understands that the United States is no longer a reliable market and has made plans to adjust this reality.

But Trump is not likely to stop with his tariffs. Just as he can’t acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election, by a big margin, he can’t accept that Greenland does not belong to him. He is a seriously demented man who has decided he wants Greenland and has to have it.

Europe is struggling to find a way to respond effectively. There are discussions of imposing tariffs on........

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