Trump’s Greenland Play Is a Step Too Far for Europe’s Far Right

The coastline overlooking Disko Bay in Ilulissat, Greenland.

Photographer: Juliette Pavy/Bloomberg

Europe’s far-right parties are reassessing their ties to President Donald Trump after he used military force to oust Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, and threatened to annex Greenland.

Alice Weidel, co-leader of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party — which German authorities classified as a far-right extremist movement and has developed close ties with the US administration — said Trump was acting no differently from Russia’s Vladimir Putin in breaching international law in Venezuela and threatening to do so in Greenland.