My head is exploding. I don’t know why Greenland is doing it, when so much else could. But Greenland is a fine place to start.  Also gibberish—which is what much of the reporting and commentary about current developments sounds like to me. The idea that “acquiring Greenland” can be called a “national security priority,” as the White House press secretary purported on Jan. 6, is gibberish. Yet former NATO commander Wesley Clark, in a BBC interview, ticks off reasons why the p

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“Russia has dealt another blow to the world’s most vulnerable,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said upon...