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United States Defense and Military Forces Nazis, Soviets and Trump: America’s Fixation With Greenland - The idea that Greenland is essential to the United States has returned with a vengeance in the Trump era.Fact-Checking President Trump’s Davos Speech - The president gave misleading accounts of the U.S. role in Greenland’s history and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, among other claims.Pentagon Tells 1,500 Troops to Prepare for Possible Deployment to Minnesota - But President Trump has already backed away from a threat to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to protests against the killing of a woman by a federal immigration agent.One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. - The United States is broken, but not in every way.U.S. Moves Some Personnel From Qatar Air Base as Trump Weighs Military Response to Iran - Nonessential personnel are being removed from Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the main U.S. air operations hub in the region, as President Trump weighs a military response to Iran’s crackdown on protests.Republicans Move to Block Effort to Check Trump’s Power in Venezuela - G.O.P. leaders are pressuring fellow senators who supported the measure to change their vote on the bill to block President Trump’s military action in Venezuela without Congress’s consent.An Emboldened Trump Makes Big Bets in Venezuela, Iran and Beyond - President Trump has left himself plenty of room for maximal intervention. But there are a host of potential wild cards, each with risks for the president.Trump’s Plans for Venezuelan Oil Run Headlong Into Reality - President Trump’s fixation on Venezuela’s oil raises the question of how much “energy dominance” is really worth nowadays.U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane - Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”U.S. Citizens Are Joining the Military to Protect Undocumented Parents - Amid an ICE crackdown in her area, an Oregon National Guard recruiter offers U.S. citizens a way to save their immigrant parents.