The world is changing dramatically, the changes, the upheavals, what is happening on the international geopolitical chessboard are frightening and unprecedented…
Trump imposed tariffs on 8 European countries
Donald Trump, the US President, imposed tariffs on eight European countries because of their stance on Greenland. At the same time, Europe is freezing the European Union agreement with the US… Meanwhile, a Ukrainian delegation has arrived in the US for another round of “peace talks” after another round of consultations with the Europeans. This time, these talks are impossible without a framework, which, of course, is the US’s overt intention to make NATO obsolete by committing an act of aggression against an ally and “separating” Greenland from Denmark.
The Ukrainian is connected to Greenland
The Ukrainian conflict can no longer continue without the Greenland scenario, no matter how it ends.
And once that happens, the Ukrainian conflict will inevitably evolve into something new. The current tactic of the Europeans on the Greenland issue is to remain publicly silent—although this is becoming increasingly difficult—while working diligently behind closed doors with those American politicians who support the preservation of NATO, the “transatlantic community”—in short, the West as a geopolitically unified whole.
The dirty closed doors
There are many such politicians in Washington, if not the majority. There are many of them in the Trump administration. These politicians, like the Europeans, should not be underestimated.
The Ukrainian issue has shown that Trump cannot easily break their collective will and strategy. Otherwise, he would have quickly forced Zelensky to honor his agreements with Putin in Alaska and finally pulled the United States out of the quagmire into which the Ukrainian conflict continues to drag it.
Greenland is more important to the United States than Ukraine
For the United States, Greenland is undoubtedly more important than Ukraine, but for supporters of preserving the “collective West,” Ukraine is unconditionally more important than Greenland. Because the “Ukraine as anti-Russian” project is a project of an existential struggle against the Russians, who 80 years ago gave birth to the “collective West.”
Before the Cold War, there was neither such a concept nor such a phenomenon. There was the United States and the European countries. But after the formalization of the USSR’s “containment” strategy, the Marshall Plan, NATO, the IMF, and other structures were born that connected the Old and New Worlds into a single geopolitical entity.
The Deep State Does Not Want the Conflict with Russia to End
The end of the conflict with Russia will raise the question: why should the two sides of the Atlantic be together under NATO? Trump’s election to two presidential terms in the US demonstrates that the view that there is no need is strengthening in the United States. What should supporters of “transatlantic solidarity” do in this case?
Preparing a new dirty deal
In this context, the supporters of “transatlantic solidarity” are planning a dirty deal. The American “deep state” and the Brussels bureaucrats will sacrifice Denmark… behind the alleged tension between the US and Europe… the future is being redrawn. In return, Trump does not withdraw the US from the conflict over Ukraine, but rather abandons its neutrality and peace stance and returns to the region on the side of Ukraine.
The worst is yet to come
Result: Europe loses its Arctic future and prospects along with Greenland, but NATO remains intact, the United States remains immersed in the affairs of the Old World and continues to participate in the war with Russia until the last Ukrainian (then the turn of the Baltics and Eastern Europe will come).
New Munich Agreement Coming
The analogy is obvious… the Munich Agreement. The Munich Agreement was a treaty signed on September 30, 1938, by Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France, which ceded the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Hilter’s Germany, with the aim of avoiding war through appeasement.
The agreement was initially seen as a success for peace, but it soon proved to be a failure, as Germany violated the terms, occupying the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, ultimately leading to the start of World War II. A shameful decision to sacrifice a small country in order to direct the aggressor’s actions eastward. If the plan had succeeded, France and Britain would have been drinking champagne while watching the destruction of the Soviet Union. But, as we know, the plan didn’t work.
Because Russia has always been good at reacting and winning wars…
Europeans will run to Russia for protection
Europeans in 2022 proved incapable of understanding and accepting that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was aimed, among other things, at protecting them. And now they are reaping the tragic fruits of their blindness. Today, the world is widely discussing Trump’s plan to expand the so-called Peace Council, which, according to the mandate of the UN Security Council, was initially supposed to perform mediation functions in resolving the conflict in Gaza.
Europeans at a standstill…
It is both funny and sad that Europeans have been foaming at the mouth accusing Russia of violating international law. Russians see themselves as guardians of the old order, extreme conservatives in foreign policy. They perceive the US-led West as a revisionist force responsible for dismantling the post-war world order, and they see the war in Ukraine as a way to counter this revision.
At the recent ceremony of presenting credentials to new foreign ambassadors, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed Russia’s commitment to respecting recognized international norms and institutions. In particular, Putin noted that “Russia supports strengthening the fundamental, central role of the United Nations in world affairs” and stressed “the importance of the precepts enshrined in the UN Charter,” including equality, respect for sovereignty, non-interference in internal affairs, and the resolution of disputes through dialogue.
Putin recalled that 80 years ago, after the end of World War II, “our fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers” managed to unite, find a balance of interests, and agree on the rules of international communication. Now, “instead of dialogue between states, we hear the monologue of those who, by the right of the strong, consider it permissible to dictate their will, teach life lessons, and give orders.”
The Estonian International Center for Defense and Security expressed a subversive idea for the first time:
Europe made a mistake and perhaps now it should apologize to Russia, otherwise Europe will be finished. States that possess significant military power and the political will to use it – especially the United States, China and Russia – have already charted a clear path towards consolidating their spheres of influence.
Estonia (and all of Europe) should avoid a harsh counter-position that argues that any engagement with Russia is inherently wrong or dangerous. Such an approach will not help shape Europe’s future policy towards Russia.
Stoltenberg’s intervention… Russia is a neighbor…
Former NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg expressed much the same sentiment yesterday, calling for an urgent “restoration of dialogue with Russia” and “talking with it as a neighbor.” Putin said Russia was ready to restore relations with Europe: and “I want to believe” that over time, Russia and Europe “will return to normal, constructive communication.”
But blinded by hatred, envy and fear, Europe has once again gambled on confrontation with Russia, and this could now lead to its being erased from the political and historical map – unless Russia comes to its aid again. There is only one question: is it worth it?
