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Donald Trump\u2019s latest attempt to seize Greenland shows that the president is willing to use US force to determine international borders, even at the expense of sovereignty.<\/p>\n
Western allies \u2013 NATO countries included \u2013\u00a0 publicly formed a united front, but private messages have revealed a more deferential approach to dealing with Trump.<\/p>\n
This latest crisis may have been averted, but the question remains: Does the so-called rules-based international order apply to Trump?<\/p>\n
Contributors:\u00a0<\/strong> Donald Trump launched his highly-publicised \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d initiative at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.<\/p>\n The signing ceremony followed a familiar pattern for this White House \u2013 a carefully staged event centred on Trump, his overblown claims of peacemaking, and speeches in praise of him. But the turnout appears to have fallen short of the hype.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s Justice Department was ordered to publish documents from the Epstein files more than a month ago. Only 1% of the heavily redacted material has been made public.<\/p>\n While the Trump administration floods the zone with news that mainstream outlets have been chasing, an unconventional team of investigators is digging into the Epstein files to see what\u2019s there. They are led by online investigator Ellie Leonard in New York City.<\/p>\n Featuring:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Ellie Leonard \u2013 Contributing editor, Blue Amp Media<\/p>\n Published On 24 Jan 2026<\/span>24 Jan 2026<\/span><\/p>\n Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n share2<\/p>\n Donald Trump\u2019s latest attempt to seize Greenland shows that the president is willing to use US force to determine international borders, even at the expense of sovereignty. Western allies \u2013 NATO countries included \u2013\u00a0 publicly formed a united front, but private messages have revealed a more deferential approach to dealing with Trump. This latest crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[964,10905,22427,81,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-42603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-donald","9":"tag-imperial","10":"tag-tantrum","11":"tag-trump","12":"tag-trumps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Louise Bokkenheuser \u2013 Writer and editor
Branko Marcetic \u2013 Staff writer, Jacobin
Anchal Vohra \u2013 Columnist, Foreign Policy
Ulrich Bruckner \u2013 Professor for European studies, Stanford University<\/p>\nOn our radar:<\/h2>\n
A conversation with Ellie Leonard<\/h2>\n