There's a kind of "LinkedIn Grand Strategist" disease doing the rounds among the elite where a bunch of people with no background in military affairs or foreign relations convince themselves that there's a hidden Machiavellian brilliance behind transparently stupid moves.
Recently I was at an event where a reasonably respectable person talked about how Trump’s threats to Greenland speak to the human desire to go on a grand mission, etc, and that’s why we need to respect the mass appeal of this idea. Invading Greenland polls at like 6% approval. But they like it on X