Donald Trump and maga Republicans must protect America's foriegn alliances: claims to take over Greenland are stupid

“Trump Mocks Leaders Who Seek to Curb His Greenland Ambitions as Weak” (news article, January 21):

Echo opinion letters published in The New York Times:

As tensions rise between the United States and Europe, Donald Trump has not done anything to cool things down but instead derided Europe as weak ahead of his meeting with European leaders in Davos, Switzerland. Donald Trump has gone too far.

For years the U.S. has been able to build strength through its alliances, but Donald Trump has turned this idea on its head. 

Obviously and unbelievably, it has come to a point where Donald Trump is willing to bully allies and make threats in order to obtain Greenland, an island that few Americans care about and that would not improve the security of the country, whatsoever. (IOW "stupid")

Donald Trump has made a dangerous assumption that the U.S. on its own would be able to stand strong on the global stage, particularly against two superpowers: Russia and China. If the Donald Trump really wants to pay off the national debt (a financial impossibility) and improve the economy, losing allies is not the way to go about it ❗ Perhaps it is time for Trump to learn the meaning of the word “cooperation.”  From Maxwell Mercado in  Collegedale, Tennessee

To the Editor:  This is not a test. Donald Trump’s increasingly flagrant and bellicose threats to violate Greenland’s sovereignty represent an existential threat. There is no telling what will befall us if the United States shatters the NATO alliance and cements its abrupt shift from leader of the free world to global pariah.

Congress and all Americans: If you oppose this perilous path, now is the time to speak. 

 (Maine Writer post script:  #WhereIsSenatorSusanCollins ❓)

From Emily L. Cooke in Cape Elizabeth, Maine