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It’s a bad combination. A bruising U.S. president with territorial expansion on his mercurial mind and European politicians without any backbone – all too eager to pander to the American bully.
Mixed in with that noxious brew, we also have European elites who are so obsessively Russophobic that they would stab each other in the back just to keep the proxy war on Russia at full throttle.
Donald Trump, whose policymaking is more befitting a Mafia real estate business, wants to grab Greenland as well as Canada, the Panama Canal, and anywhere else that takes his fancy. He wants to “clean out” Gaza, no doubt to flog beachfront properties to millionaires.
Trump has doubled down on his intention to annex Greenland – by military force if needed. His comments have caused Danish leaders to freak out, fearing that the president may order a military invasion of the Arctic island territory, a centuries-old colonial possession of Copenhagen.
Repeating earlier threats, Trump said last weekend: “I don’t really know what claim Denmark has to it, but it would be a very unfriendly act if they didn’t allow that to happen because it’s for the protection of the free world.” (Not like America’s God-given right to Hawaii, Guam and Puerto Rico, for example.)
Notice how Trump glosses his imperialist real estate interests with the virtue of “protecting the free world.”
The dainty Danes are reportedly in “crisis mode” over Trump’s aggressive takeover. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen went on a whirlwind tour of European capitals on Tuesday to drum up EU solidarity. She held urgent meetings with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris and NATO chief Mark Rutte in Brussels – all in one day.
It’s hilarious to hear European non-entity politicians talk bravely about “defending Denmark” from American threats to its sovereignty and extraterritorial borders. They will do nothing of the sort.
The EU’s Defence Commissioner, Andrius Kubilius, plucked up courage, saying, “We are ready to defend our member state, Denmark,” citing the European bloc’s defense treaties – which are not worth the paper they are printed on. Who has even heard of them?
The Finnish foreign minister ventured further, saying that any attack on Greenland would be covered by NATO’s collective security pact, Article V.
It is an incredibly absurd situation. Trump is apparently putting the United States and its European vassals on a war footing. This after three years of hearing European politicians hysterically warning about alleged Russian expansionism threatening their borders. Now, their most immediate threat comes from the NATO leading member, the U.S.
Trump’s lust for Greenland has compelling reasons, of course. The territory represents about a fifth of the existing U.S. land mass and is profusely rich in untapped oil and precious metal ores. With the melting of the polar ice cap, there are fabulous prospects for drilling and shipping routes. The U.S. already has a small military base on Greenland since World War Two – with “permission” from Denmark – and if it became an integral part of the United States, its strategic location would pose a greater missile threat to Russia and China.
Despite all the pearl-clutching and bravado, there is little-to-zero chance that the servile Europeans will do anything that amounts to a military stand-off with the U.S.
Trump, the consummate bully, knows he can walk all over the Euro lackeys, call them names, slap them around a bit – and they will all fork out a doubling in military spending on American weapons – under the guise of increasing their NATO spending to 5 percent of GDP, as demanded by Trump.
What is far more likely is the European lackeys will do a grubby deal with Trump. That deal would involve relinquishing Greenland to the U.S. while getting Trump to play hardball with Russia over Ukraine.
The Greenlanders – 57,000 mainly Inuit native people will get shafted and Denmark’s sovereignty and defense will be betrayed by the EU. But so what? The Greenlanders have been treated like racially inferior minions for decades by Denmark, and the Danish ruling class is so obsequious to Washington that it is not going to put up a serious protest beyond a squeak and a squirm.
What the EU Russophobes (most of the European political class) want is to keep the NATO proxy war against Russia going. There has been acute anxiety in Brussels and other European capitals that Trump was preparing to make a peace deal with Russia over Ukraine to end the three-year war.
It is notable that the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Commissioner, Kaja Kallas, was much more circumspect in her comments about Trump’s Greenland ambitions. She did not declare a commitment to defend Denmark and the EU’s sovereignty. Instead, Kallas urged the EU to be “more transactional” in negotiating with the new American president.
That is, to make a deal. But what kind of deal?
On the same day that the Danish prime minister was touring European capitals looking for assurances of solidarity, Kallas, who is the EU’s top diplomat, held her first phone call with her American counterpart, Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Remarkably, the issue of Greenland and Danish sovereignty was not on the agenda for Kallas and Rubio, according to reports. The top diplomats talked about applying “maximum pressure” on Russia with more economic sanctions. Also on the agenda was how the U.S. and EU would contend with alleged Chinese aggression in the Asia-Pacific.
That is astounding. The Trump administration is acting aggressively towards Denmark and the EU and yet the EU’s top diplomat did not raise the matter with her counterpart.
Kallas, who, like European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, is obsessively Russophobic, was groveling to Rubio. She commented their conversation was a “good call,” adding: “We discussed global issues where the EU and U.S. have the same interests, including Russia’s war in Ukraine, Iran’s malign influence, and challenges posed by China. The EU and U.S. are always stronger together. Looking forward to meeting you soon.”
In other words, to paraphrase the former U.S. State Department Ukrainian coup specialist, Victoria Nuland: “Fuck Greenland and Denmark!”
For his part, Rubio said he welcomed “the extension of EU sanctions against Russia for its war against Ukraine.” He also called for “greater transatlantic unity and European nations to spend more on defense,” meaning buying more exorbitantly-priced and over-rated American weapons.
The Euro News outlet editorialized that the phone call between Kallas and Rubio would “assuage European suspicions” that the Trump administration was seeking a rapid diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine.
Trump has begun to sound less ambitious about resolving the Ukraine conflict than when he was on the campaign trail now that he is president. His aides are making muted proposals for a ceasefire with European NATO peacekeepers on the Ukrainian side – proposals that are concerning to Moscow as they suggest a lack of understanding or will for a more substantive settlement in the form of a grand security treaty between Russia and NATO.
For reasons of imperialist avarice, narcissism, and the ease of picking low-hanging fruit, Trump seems more inclined to grab Greenland than to take on a complex negotiation with Russia. And the European lackeys will ditch Greenland and Danish “principles” if it means keeping the focus of NATO aggression on Russia. All in all, it’s a bad combination.
The European lackeys in pandering to megalomaniac Trump could make the conflict with Russia a whole lot worse. This proxy war is testing Russia’s strategic patience, risking an all-out war, and the Euro Russophobes are unrelenting in provoking war.
