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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger Senior international correspondent

Twin-headed Trump-Musk onslaught leaves Europe floundering for response

Elon Musk and Donald Trump at a SpaceX launch
While Donald Trump has resurrected his designs on Greenland, Elon Musk has backed far-right parties in the UK and Germany. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Reuters

Europe has been braced since the US presidential election in November for the challenge posed by Donald Trump’s return, but the threat to European stability has come earlier and appears far more serious than predicted, even by the pessimists.

Trump has already revived his territorial aspirations for Greenland, making clear they were not some bad-taste joke from his first term, but unfinished business which he intended to resolve by whatever means necessary, even military.

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