The country with no army.

Anton La Guardia   The Economist30 June 2026
Icelanders have been unnerved by US President Trump’s ambition to annex Greenland, a neighbouring Arctic island.

It did not help that, speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Mr Trump muddled Greenland with “Iceland” four times; or that his nominee as ambassador to Reykjavik suggested tastelessly that Iceland should become America’s “52nd state”, remarks for which he later apologised.