Alex Gray, a former NSC chief of staff under Trump, joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss his take on European resistance to the president's push to acquire Greenland and the latest on unrest in Iran.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans a trip to China early this year, probably in late February. So does British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose government just surrendered to Beijing by greenlighting the "mega embassy," thus assuring the visit will go forward. French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife traveled to the Chinese capital at the beginning of December.

Europe is desperately looking to China, to achieve elusive goals of trade and security. Unfortunately, there is, as Margaget Thatcher once said, "the stench of appeasement" in the air. European leaders are absolutely determined to placate the Chinese, no matter what Beijing does to impoverish Europeans and endanger their homelands.

At the same time, the decline in support for the U.S. across Europe has been, as Mark Leonard, director and co-founder of the European Council on Foreign Relations, points out, "precipitous across the continent."

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"Europeans," writes Leonard, "have already realized Washington is more foe than friend."

Foe? Europeans are now focused on President Donald Trump’s brazen demands to annex Greenland, a territory of Denmark. His implied threats to use force — "one way or the other, we’re........

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