‘I don’t need international law’: Trump’s Wild West doctrine freezes European brains (Politico)

The snow fell heavily over Brussels this week, as officials from embassies and European institutions returned from their holiday slumbers to a shocking new world. Like an icy slap of Arctic air, Donald Trump’s operation to remove Nicolás Maduro from the Venezuelan presidency stunned the EU’s top officials — and froze them into silence. Then he questioned NATO, threatened Cuba and Iran, and declared he needed to own Greenland for the purposes of national security, whether or not the U.S. allies who currently control it agree. “I don’t need international law,” Trump declared in an interview with the New York Times.

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump’s Wild West doctrine freezes European brains  – POLITICO