Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain

It’s no secret that President Donald Trump and his talking dummy Vice President JD Vance only have contempt for Europe as a political entity or military ally. Clearly, Trump’s views about Europe (beyond those he gleans playing golf in Scotland twice a year) come from his Kremlin handlers / Gaza playmates—the likes of Vladimir Putin, Aleksandr Lukashenko, and Viktor Orbán, for whom Europe stands in the way of a Soviet Risorgimento. Vance’s views are that only right-wing parties around Europe represent his personal brand of white Christian nationalism (sorry, Usha), and that the rest of Europe is nothing more than an endless Gay Pride parade or variations on Swedish socialism.

The Greenland shakedown had nothing to do with Golden Domes or enhancing American security, and everything to do with following Putin’s marching orders to deposit a Trojan horse at the center of Europe’s security alliance, NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Clearly Putin is taking the view that as the war in Ukraine hasn’t (so far) destroyed the NATO alliance (if anything, it brought Sweden and Finland into the military fold), the next best thing is to dispatch his agent-running-in-the-field (Trump) to Europe with the message that the United States is determined to take Greenland, even if it means American withdrawal........

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