Greg Ip

In the sweep of history and today, it's not obvious that they actually define or determine how other countries behave.

Well, you know, you've heard Marco Rubio say that Cuba needs to watch its back.

Me, I'm a fan of listening to what Trump actually says.

He's talked about Panama.

He's talked a lot about Greenland, including talking about it more and more over the last few days.

Just last month, he appointed an envoy to Greenland for the first time ever.

And then Denmark certainly saw that as a hostile act.

So that's where I would watch most closely.

It does feel like a pivotal moment.

And here we are just a few days after the Venezuela operation.

And I think that we do not yet have clarity on what it all means.

But I think that we should take Trump at his word, that hemispheric economic interests will now be front and center in how the United States runs foreign policy, at least as long as he's president.

And that has profound, profound implications for Americans, but even more so for America's allies and neighbors.

Well, if you go back four or five years ago, when I think climate concerns were kind of at their peak, there was a different political and cultural milieu.

Look at the term of President Biden.

I mean, he comes in, you know, he's completely invested in the climate agenda, talks about the urgency of acting right away.

He passes a couple of really big spending bills to try and do a

But then right around that time, inflation takes off, partly because of all the spending in the Biden packages and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

And what you've seen since then is people's priorities have basically changed.

Climate change is not something they're inclined to worry about when they're more worried about their pocketbooks or their security, the security of their energy supply.