I genuinely don’t know what happens to the European/British relationship with the US after the Greenland affair. For one, it doesn’t seem to be over, but this is another item in a long list including siding with Russia over Ukraine and Tariffs (and that’s not even mentioning the domestic issues).

After the first Trump term, it felt like Europe’s response was “Okay, you get a mulligan and we see we need to increase our NATO spending.” But the fact that he was re-elected and there’s now JD Vance and Lil' Marco waiting in the wings as the MAGA successors means that Europe just can’t rely on the US anymore.

To be fair, I’m not sure Europe is speaking from a place of great power here (Polish politics has some incredible contradictions at the moment in politicians who are “anti-Russian” but at the same time seem to say Russia is the real victim). In fact, it’s perfectly possible that a future UK (or French, or German) government could look not that dissimilar from the current US one — I can’t imagine Farage defending Greenlands sovereignty.

But, a week is a long time in Politics.

Perhaps Trump will go, a more stable leader will take his place (I mean, that’s basically anyone except Stephen Miller) and we’ll go back to the same uneasy cooperation as after the tariff negotiations. Perhaps the democrats will win the next elections and somehow MAGA will go the way of the neo-cons leading to a more stable political climate.

But as a European leader, I wouldn’t decided my policy based on hope and dreams that America has, thus far, bore little resemblance to.

They say trust takes a lifetime to build but a second to break.

Sorry, America. We can’t trust you.