Trump and his team of America’s bluntest and briskest can look funny. Their demands are so bracingly direct; their threats so refreshingly frank. It’s almost as if they are mightily enjoying themselves as they rub in the facts of brute American power: We, the US, are the best-armed, richest mobster family in town, and the new Don is greedier than Scarface and crasser than Tony Soprano!
Here’s why Trump’s talk of annexing Canada and Greenland should not be dismissed
The US president-elect’s “shopping cart” of other countries’ properties should worry all American vassals
BY Tarik Cyril Amar