Trump’s Greenland obsession at Davos was yet another gift to Vladimir Putin |
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting of Global Business Leaders at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
While the world anxiously watched President Donald Trump’s address in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday to see just how serious he was about the United States taking control of Greenland, the person who no doubt enjoyed the spectacle most of all, Russian President Vladimir Putin, was not in attendance.
That’s because Putin has used Trump to achieve his biggest geopolitical objective: weakening NATO without firing a shot.
Though Trump told the World Economic Forum that he won’t move militarily on a fellow NATO member, he had already threatened new tariffs on our allies if they don’t hand over Greenland, and Wednesday’s address, in which Trump repeatedly confused Greenland for Iceland, amounted to more rhetorical shots fired across the European bow.
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“All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland,” Trump insisted in a speech that Putin, the former head of the KGB, might as well have scripted.
Following the speech, Trump announced he was also backing down from the tariff threat, but not on his insistence on U.S. ownership of Greenland.
Never mind that the U.S. already controls Greenland’s Pittufik Space Base and can access all the rare minerals it wants. The point of the Greenland temper tantrum........