While I agree, they are useful, I don’t expect Russia to respect international waters should Greenland remain in control. Already they frequently venture into European water and have severed communication cables.

Shipping lanes are only useful if countries are still trading with each other.

Because it wasn’t his business. He was a paid ‘actor’. It was as real as other reality TV. Unfortunately, he believed it to be true and his confidence inspired confidence. Hence the term.

Yes, but you’re discounting the fact that all intelligence is shared in the mean time. All large intergovernmental organisations are complex. The USA is likely compromised. Sharing data with them would undermine the new entity.

Wow, this is like the country level of justifying staying with an abuser. If the USA is unreliable and insecure, because of trumps, but more because the American people voted him in and their government sees fit not to prevent the kind of issues he’s causing. Then it’s better to leave and face consequences, and retaliate appropriately now, than suffer and still face those same consequences later.