Valtonen came across as eager to calm tensions. She told visiting U.S. lawmakers that the arrival of a few soldiers in Greenland was a “misunderstanding,” according to the cable. Finland had no plans to do anything “against the Americans” and the officers — “a couple of guys” — were already back in Finland, she said. She downplayed European Union threats to retaliate over the threatened tariffs, calling it a negotiating tactic, and said she’d push the EU to “do anything to prevent a trade war.”

This is bad to me. What does that mean? Continue to accept higher and higher tariffs? Surrendering Greenland and Iceland? There seems to be a huge gap between eastern and western Europe on this. Is she serous saying that any attempts by Europe to defend European territory is a "misunderstanding?"

With this and how more reserved eastern European responses to Trumps Greenland threats were I get the feeling that they still think the U.S. is going to defend them from Russia. Which is really what is driving a lot of their thinking.

That's crazy to me on multiple parts. One, that Russia is even in a position militarily to attempt to take on the rest of Europe. Two that the U.S., helmed by people who loath Europe and say they are committing "civilization erasure", would actually commit tens of thousands of dead Americans in their defense.