We hear that Donald Trump has backed down on Greenland.
That from threatening tariffs to even waging a war, Trump is now “productively” negotiating with NATO chief Mark Rutte.
That so far, all he has got is unrestricted access to a few spots in Greenland – and nothing else.
That most of the heavy-lifting in Greenland would be done by NATO only.
That the unity of European Union (EU) and its own threat of tariffs in retaliation has sobered down Trump.
That this is not unusual: Trump overreaches himself in his hubris and then settles down for far less.
But what if I was to say that:
- Unrestricted access to a few spots in Greenland is the framework which allows the US similar unhindered privilege in its 40 bases in Europe, housing over 100,000 US soldiers;
- That whatever emerges out of Greenland deal would split up the European Union, some countries would refuse to shell out money for its defense; Greece and Turkey for instance are both members of European Union yet the former has a military pact with Israel; Britain is not on same page with France and Italy on talks with Russia; Poland can’t persuade Madrid or Rome for war against Russia; Sweden and Finland falling over each other to join NATO now looks so stupid; Serbia says it would now look after its own interests, etc etc.
- Self-interest would now be a norm in EU;
- The threat of tariff in retaliation by the EU is so flimsy, I am only addressing it at the footnote of this piece.
Let’s return to Greenland.
Trump now understands there is something about Greenland which Europeans are loathe to give away even to the United States, the only credible card they have against Russia and China.
That this big piece of ice was denied to the United States in 1867, just after the US Civil War at a time when Russia had given away Alaska at a throwaway price of $7.2 million the very same year
Even when the Soviet Union was a real threat at the height of the Cold War, the Europeans turned down US president Harry Truman’s offer of $100 million for Greenland in 1946;
Europeans again refused to cede Greenland on a specific US request in 1955.
We all know that Trump began his second presidency in 2025 with three specific vows:
- Free the United States from tens of thousands of illegal often deadly immigrants;
- Ensure that dangerous drugs, fentanyl etc, flooding the United States is a thing of the past;
- And that the US must assert its control on Panama, Mexico, Greenland and Canada which he termed matters of national security.
All three are interlinked.
Trump believes the United States is being hollowed out by his own European allies — “You have been screwing us for 30 years,” as he addressed them in Davos — through drugs and immigration in its own neighbourhood, like in Panama, Mexico and Canada.
There are other means through which Europeans —“freeloaders” in view of US vice-president JD Vance —drag them into regime change and endless wars around the world.
This they manage by co-opting US administration and elites, by roping in much of Congress and Senate, through insane money at their command through City of London, and by extension the Wall Street.
This insane money owe its origins from the 14 off-shore tax havens created by Great Britain in the 1960s. They have grown into behemoths worth nearly $75 trillion largely through drug and money laundering operations, facilitated by corrupt banks.
Then there are sanguine-sounding projects like climate change, green energy, universal health etc which are run through international bodies who can’t be questioned by any government or any court of law.
These bodies also provide cover to money-laundering, drug-trafficking, terrorism and other criminal operations.
Trump has pulled the US out from 66 of 76 such international bodies.
This is nothing else than the Deep State that you keep hearing about.
And this is the Deep State that Trump wants to get rid of in his bid to Make America Great Again (MAGA).
Every bizarre statement or act by Trump is seen as an act of madness but there is a great method to it.
Whenever Trump makes a bizarre claim, he is sitting back and taking note.
His intelligence services track the panic such statements cause in cartels or enemies in friends’ guise.
People go on phone, on computers, get agitated and do things to the benefit of Trump’s intelligence team.
You knock down a few stray boats and surround Venezuela around its waters and see CNN freak out.
He allows Israel to carry out attack on Iran, murdering its scientists etc, but pulls himself out from the fray exposing Mossad agents infesting Tehran;
He rakes up Greenland and then watches the vehemence of his allies who might have plans to use it as a smuggling route and takes note.
He watches Canada melt down from a few jibes to the extent they are willing to sacrifice its economy— 75% of its GDP is courtesy the US — and run into the arms of the Chinese;
He can’t understand why it’s Gulf of Mexico when it ought to be Gulf of America — how it happened and why?
In Trump’s worldview, his allies are globalists who are hollowing out the United States by drawing upon the great reserves of American wealth and military superpower.
He has a massive task ahead of him for not only these globalists but also their fifth column within the United States — the media, judiciary, Congressmen, senators, and Democrats, who would double down in bid to stop Trump in his tracks.
All this while he is forging an understanding with the Chinese and the Russians and hiding his hand for the coming new world order where the three superpowers would look after own interests without interference from the other two.
And now to the notion that the EU’s threat of tariff did the trick on Greenland – compare it with the facts below:
- Before Donald Trump arrived, French president Emmanuel Macron had left Davos;
- The British prime minister Keith Starmer didn’t turn up at all;
- German president Friedrich Merz said the European Union has too many regulations and too little innovation;
- Canadian prime minister Mark Carney likened the position of non-American West to that of Soviet satellite states before 1989;
- Belgium prime minister Bart de Wever declared “being a happy vassal is one thing, being a miserable slave is something else.”
- NATO chief Mark Rutte wrote to Trump: “I am committed to finding a way forward on Greenland…can’t wait to see you.”
Does it look like a team which could flex its muscle on Trump?
