Middle Eastern countries, disregarding the influence of the U.S., which thinks little of international order, are eyeing a move to a framework to independently ensure their own national security.
With his reliance on naked power and rejection of all constraints on his authority, Trump represents the opposite of everything that made the U.S. great.
If boat trips from a few hundred years ago are not a claim of ownership, then why should this just apply for Denmark in Greenland, and not also for the European colonizers in North America?