If the Americans ride roughshod over Denmark and Greenland's borders, what regard are they likely to give to the Great Lakes boundaries?

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In the past days and weeks, we have witnessed the Finlandization of Canada.

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In Finland’s case during the Cold War that meant, in the words of the Finnish political cartoonist Kari Suomalainen, “bowing to the East, without mooning the West.”

For Prime Minister Mark Carney, it means the realpolitik of not publicly carping about President Donald Trump’s rogue foreign policy while standing up for the principles of self-determination and territorial integrity.

But such a cautious reaction is apt to persuade the gambler Trump that he can get away with breaking the rules that have kept the peace since 1945.

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Carney’s name was again noticeable by its absence from a strongly worded joint statement Tuesday by the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Britain and Denmark that reiterated it is for the Danes and Greenlanders, “and them only,” to decide on matters concerning the island’s sovereignty. The statement was in response to comments on Sunday by Trump

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