Article snippet: MORE’s decision to pick a fight with Denmark has stunned foreign policy experts already accustomed to being surprised by the White House's unconventional approach to traditional U.S. allies. Trump on Wednesday branded Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s remarks rejecting his proposal to purchase Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, “nasty” and “inappropriate.” “She’s not talking to me. She’s talking to the United States of America. You don’t talk to the United States that way,” Trump told reporters at the White House one day after he canceled plans to visit Denmark over the dispute. Some accused Trump of disrespecting a close European ally. Denmark is a member of NATO, and its troops have fought alongside the U.S. in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. “He’s insulting a NATO ally, a close ally, that has fought to defend us,” said Evelyn Farkas, a fellow at the German Marshall Fund and former deputy assistant secretary of Defense under the Obama administration, who argued that the decision could result in Denmark and other allies distrusting the United States. “We are now unpredictable and unreliable. And once you’re unpredictable and unreliable, your allies go elsewhere for their security and their stability and for their partnership and maybe ultimately for their alliances,” Farkas said. Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who served in top intelligence posts during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, criticized the move as “pathetic” in... Link to the full article to read more