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?

[T]he people will pay ... not the politicians who are playing geostrategy with someone else’s money.

The United States is expected to focus heavily on maintaining dominance in the Americas, while still regarding China as a major strategic competitor in the Asia-Pacific.

Beneath all the differing opinions, however, was one unchanging truth for each country: national interest comes first.

[W]hat is illegitimate is any attempt to seize the natural resources of Venezuela and impose puppet leaderships on it.

Venezuela is likely to become another wasted crisis, resembling events that followed when the U.S. forced regime changes in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Trump would also do well to remember Shakespeare line “love cools, friends fall off, brothers divide!”

Iran is not Venezuela.

Trump’s foreign policy is neither ideological nor institutional. It is centralized, personality-driven and oriented toward visible, near-term wins.