Trump’s Greenland gambit: The unforeseen geoeconomic pitfalls

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — John Dalberg-Acton, The Acton-Creighton Correspondence,1887. If global geopolitics were a chessboard with intricately placed pieces and set-piece situations, then Donald Trump’s Venezuela campaign would easily be remembered as a high-risk curtain–raiser gambit that, against expectations, won him a few early opposing pieces but some, albeit small, if not […] The post Trump’s Greenland gambit: The unforeseen geoeconomic pitfalls appeared first on Nairametrics.

Trump’s Greenland gambit: The unforeseen geoeconomic pitfalls

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — John Dalberg-Acton, The Acton-Creighton Correspondence,1887. If global geopolitics were a chessboard with intricately placed pieces and set-piece situations, then Donald Trump’s Venezuela campaign would easily be remembered as a high-risk curtain–raiser gambit that, against expectations, won him a few early opposing pieces but some, albeit small, if not […]

The post Trump’s Greenland gambit: The unforeseen geoeconomic pitfalls appeared first on Nairametrics.

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