Donald Trump's Greenland push is smart geopolitics

Location, location: Why Trump’s Greenland push is smart geopolitics - Rich Lowry 

• In business, Donald Trump was a real-estate guy.
• In the presidency, he might be one, too.

The prospective foreign policy of his second term has taken an unexpected turn, with his recent talk of annexing Canada, buying Greenland and taking back the Panama Canal.
Rather than the neo-isolationist that he’s often accused of being, Trump is talking like a neo-imperialist, at least in our own hemisphere.

• Trump on Greenland: is he serious?

Even if President Trump does none of these things — he’s largely joking about the Great White North — his musings are a reminder of the crucial importance of geography and the control of territory.
The first thing you need to do to understand the world, and to a large extent the behavior of nations, is to look at a map.

• “Geography is the most fundamental factor in the foreign policy of states because it is the most permanent,” the 20th century strategist Nicholas Spykman observed...