Anyone who thought the start of the year would be quiet could hardly have been more wrong. That was without counting on Mr Trump and his contempt for international law. Shortly after President Maduro's forced arrival in the United States, Donald Trump turned his attention to Greenland, claiming that the US should conquer this territory by any means necessary. This provoked strong reactions from European “allies”, a renewed trade war rhetoric involving tariffs and other coercive measures on both sides of the Atlantic.