The Trump administration's push for mining on the edge of the Boundary Waters now becomes part of a larger, unapologetic territory and resource grab. This belligerence casts the story I've been following for the past -- what? decade? -- in a harsh new light. Trying to get my head around this.
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a) renegotiate them, but that takes time, expertise, and a willing second party;
b) violate them, in which case he ends up:
(i) at the ICJ (yes, he belongs in the Hague, but not there)
or
(ii) at war.