#BTDAVOS2026 | Ishaan Tharoor On Trump, Greenland And America’s “Might Is Right” Worldview

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Rajdeep Sardesai, Consulting Editor, India Today, spoke with Ishaan Tharoor, Global Affairs Columnist at The Washington Post, on President Donald Trump’s fixation with Greenland and the thinking driving U.S. foreign policy. Tharoor argued that the push is less about formal national security strategy and more about Trump’s personal convictions and worldview. He described it as a 21st-century version of manifest destiny, rooted in the belief that power dictates outcomes. Tharoor said these impulses also reflect America’s internal culture wars, with Trump extending his domestic political battles into a broader confrontation with global institutions and the liberal international order.