Berlin, FRG (Weltexpress). In the Denmark-Greenland affair, Trump is not only making a clown of himself, but also of his European NATO vassals. They have been thrown off course by the erratic behavior of the ruler in Washington and are making themselves ridiculous with childish defiance coupled with submissive servility.
The first laughing stock was Denmark’s announcement of a joint “working group” with Washington to find a mutually acceptable solution to the problem. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen met with US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio last Wednesday to discuss Trump’s demand that Denmark cede sovereign control of Greenland to the United States, possibly through a sale. After the meeting, he emphasized that both sides had agreed to establish a promising “working group” to address American security interests in the region.
Next, the White House contradicted Rasmussen’s description of this “working group.” According to press secretary Karoline Leavitt, this was not a like-minded working group to discuss joint US-NATO-European security measures to protect Greenland from Russia and China, but rather a rather ominous group for Denmark, tasked exclusively with negotiating the “technical” aspects of transferring Greenland to the US.
When Rasmussen realized he couldn’t reach an agreement with the Trump administration, he told reporters from The New York Times, “It’s clear that the president has a desire to take over Greenland.”
From that point on, events escalated in NATO European countries. In an epic display of mental derangement, several European countries demonstrated fierce determination to assert European independence in the face of these sudden American ambitions on Danish territory: they announced that they would send soldiers to to show “military solidarity” with Denmark.
According to various reports, Boris “War-Ready” Pistorius’s ministry dispatched a proud force of 13 or 15 soldiers to fly the flag against the Americans on the icy island in the Arctic. But it wasn’t just the number of German warriors sent to Greenland that was a laughing stock, it was also the way they got there!
They took off in a military-gray A-400M Atlas transport aircraft belonging to the German Air Force, accompanied by a large press contingent, which provided for some martial photos. In the background of the media report, one could involuntarily hear the sounds of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” which impressively accompanied a well-known movie scene about a US air raid on a Vietnamese village. However, the flight of the mouse-gray A-400M Atlas did not go to Greenland at all, but ended in Denmark, thousands of kilometers away from the disputed area. Berlin obviously wanted to avoid provoking Trump, who might interpret the action as a German show of force directed against him.
That is why, after arriving in Denmark, all German soldiers transferred to a completely harmless civilian airliner bound for Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. While this was going on, Defense Secretary Boris-ready-for-war-Pistorius desperately reassured the press that this was a purely routine and long-planned mission that had nothing to do with American ambitions in Greenland.
The blogger “eugyppius” accurately characterized the action as an attempt to send a message to the Americans without actually sending one, so as not to upset Trump. But despite this charade, the plan backfired. The Americans were still angry. US President Donald Trump announced on his “Truth Social” channel that all countries that had sent their soldiers on the defiant mission to Greenland would be subject to punitive tariffs of 10 percent on all their exports to the US from February 1, with a further increase of 15 percent planned from June 1, 2026, if no agreement on the complete and total purchase of Greenland had been reached by then.
Just a few hours after “NATO Daddy” Trump had punished the disobedient EU children with higher tariffs, the weather in Greenland deteriorated, as if on cue, and the soldiers who had traveled from EU countries to show their solidarity canceled their Arctic “exploration tour” and returned early to Nuuk Airport, to fly home. This naturally led to speculation that Trump’s reaction on Truth Social had scared off the brave EU warriors, resulting in a flood of ridicule and malice on so-called “social media.”
After this setback, the brave civilian Eurocrats in Brussels, to whom the national parliaments of the EU member states have ceded their national mandate on trade policy, decided to suspend the trade agreement (0 percent tariff on US imports into the EU and 15 percent tariff on EU exports to the US) .
Alarmed by these developments, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre decided to write personally to his good friend in the White House to protest against the newly announced additional tariffs. Trump replied to Støre with the following:
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely about peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land (Greenland) from Russia or China, and why do they have ‚a right of ownership‘ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we also had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you!“ President DJT
In his recent interview Trump did not rule out annexation by military force. He said it was “an option” and, if necessary, even at the expense (or collapse) of the NATO alliance. In another interview in the Oval Office, published in the New York Times on January 8, 2026, Trump said, “I don’t need international law.”
That was just a question of definition anyway. When asked if there was anything that limited his global power, US President Trump replied: “My own morality. My own mind. That’s the only thing that can stop me.”
Welcome to Trump’s jungle of the law of the strongest!
