If European leaders had a bingo card of all the fights Donald Trump could pick with them, at this week’s Nato summit in Ankara they would have won a blackout. Starting as he meant to go on, Trump used a joint briefing with Nato chief Mark Rutte this morning to reheat his litany of grievances with fellow members of the alliance.

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Trump today declared that he was ‘not happy with Nato because of what they did with Greenland’ and their refusal, as he sees it, to help the US with the war in Iran. Greenland, the President said, was a ‘big problem for us’, going on to claim – falsely – that ‘it’s not important for Denmark’.

Any hope Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen may have had that Trump, distracted by his war in Iran, may have lost interest in trying to acquire Greenland has been conclusively dashed. She felt compelled ahead of today’s events to affirm that Denmark, of whose kingdom Greenland is a part, would be ‘ready to defend’ the territory and that it was ‘not for sale’.

Frederiksen’s comments feel particularly pertinent in the wake of a stunning Wall Street Journal article published earlier this week that revealed the degree to which the........

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