Trump's Tariffs Are About So Much More Than Greenland

 

Donald Trump's moves in relation to taking over Greenland are not about territory or mining rights, the reality is they have all been about deterrence. European members of NATO have neglected defence issues for three decades and are now seen to be weak and ineffectual militarily. While I do not see Russia as a direct threat to western Europe because despite all the efforts to demonise Putin by mainstream media, the causes of the war in Ukraine went beyond local animosities and concern NATO expansionism rather than Russian imperialism.

What the war has done however is expose the wests weakness and the dependence of Europe on the USA for its defence. Europes main military powers have been so busy 'saving the planet' and civilising the third world they have neglected their defence capabilities to the extent that none is capable of defending their own biorders.

‘An Atlantic community paralyzed by its military inferiority in Europe could only wring its hands as [Sino-Russian] power and influence moved unimpeded into the so-called Third World, portions of which provide the materials upon which the industrial, economic, and social health of the industrial West depend.’ - Conflicting Modernities, Cambridge University Press (no longer available online or to purchase)

That is where we stand. The U.S.A has had enough of this.

What are the European nations threatened with tariffs doing now? Wringing their hands and blethering about 'rules based order,' because that is all that they are capable of.

The goal of the EU is to forge its own order of world commerce, in large part to counteract Trump’s expansive protectionism. But Team Trump is suspicious of Europe’s willingness to accommodate China’s agenda.

Trump wants Greenland, no doubt, but the greater game is over the future of a wider world.’

The EU set out in an anti U.S. direction some time ago. Britain under the Labour Party has thrown its lot in with the EU and appears, certainly in the matter of the new Chinese embassy in London, to be accommodating China’s agenda. Denmark has, within it embassy in Beijing a representational office for Greenland. 

‘Basically, both Greenland and the Faroe Islands have been present in China for two years…The representation is housed in the buildings of the Danish Embassy in Beijing and will be particularly dedicated to political, cultural and also economic cooperation between the largest island in the world and the most populous country in the world. Accordingly, some business representatives from Greenland were also present at the opening.’

https://polarjournal.net/greenland-opens-own-representation-in-china/

Socialist fascist government by unilaterally disarmed countries, accompanied by much hand wringing, is economic and national security suicide. However the shared consensus and unanimity of the 'West' has evaporated.

The harmony and unity of individual Nation States has been assaulted by Democracy being subverted in the veiled campaign of International Socialism, or as they like to pretend to call it, Globalism.

Britain, at least, should be grateful to President Trump for making this ever more apparent.

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