Why would the risk be low?
replyTrump also already sanctioned Justices from the ICC based in Netherlands because he didn't like them.
He's clearly not the guy with impulse control
Sanctioning people is basically risk-free and more importantly dollar-free. Fighting wars is extremely not-free, as Trump is currently discovering in Iran. I personally rate the risk of the US actually invading Greenland as not higher than about 10%, with the matter most likely being resolved by the US administration re-discovering that the US is allowed to establish a base on the country, doing so and then announcing with big fanfare that they solved the terrible terrible problem of Greenland being "the most unsafe".
replyStill though, that is about 10 percentage points higher than before Trump took office. Better not to hand him too many tools to exert leverage with.
> Sanctioning people is basically risk-free and more importantly dollar-free.
replyIn the long term, I think this was actually really expensive. People talk and worry about this, and as a result of this (and similar developments) general consensus seems to have shifted towards preferring EU companies over US companies for tech. That used to be the exact opposite for as long as I can remember.