Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is in Davos ahead of President Trump’s visit on Wednesday and Thursday. Secretary Bessent was asked by the assembled media about current administration policy toward Greenland. WATCH:
What most people don’t understand about the strategically worded letter to Norway’s leftist Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, is how President Trump has just framed Støre as the defacto head of Brussels, representing the interests of the EU toward the framework of Greenland.
It’s not about the Nobel Peace Prize; it’s something far bigger. President Trump did not initiate contact with PM Støre; the contact was first made by Støre calling President Trump to notify him that their position was to defend Greenland against any threat from a non-NATO nation. President Trump asked how Norway was going to secure that pledge and Støre had no response.
Trump is correct; we cannot abdicate our own security to the promises of other nations. This perspective not only applies toward the USA but also applies toward the EU and is the entire reason why Trump has told NATO they need to be able to defend themselves.
Norway said it cannot defend itself from Russian threats and needs the security of the U.S. Accepting this statement Trump rightly asks: if you cannot defend yourself then how can you possibly defend Greenland. Støre had no reply. President Trump is unwilling to accept platitudes and statements in lieu of structural reality.
Prime Minister Støre previously said, “Norway’s position is firm: Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Norway fully supports the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark. There is broad agreement in NATO on the need to strengthen security in the Arctic, including in Greenland.”
In context President Trump’s position makes a great deal of pragmatic sense.
President Trump will not abdicate vital USA strategic security on the hope that NATO will defend our interests if needed. In fact, the quagmire and inability of Europe to defend a European country like Ukraine proves the pragmatic point. If Europe cannot organize strategic defense of Ukraine, then why the heck would Trump believe Europe would organize the strategic defense of Greenland.
Denmark cannot protect itself from China and/or Russia. Why would the United States believe Denmark could protect Greenland?
I have an idea….
Why don’t the Dutch pay US for the service…..
Or…maybe we send the bill to NATO…..
ZELENSKY CANCELED DAVOS AFTER RUSSIA HIT KYIV WITH ONE OF THE BIGGEST AIR ATTACKS OF THE WAR
Zelensky cancels Davos after Russia hammers Kyiv with one of the biggest aerial barrages of the war.
339 drones. 33 missiles. 1/3 of the city briefly without power.
Zelensky has a message, too: the U.S. can do more.
Pressure. Leverage. Consequences. He was ready to show up in Switzerland, then pulled out unless Trump personally sits down with him.
Trump complicates everything, as usual. He floats a “Board of Peace,” invites both Ukraine and Russia, and somehow thinks Kyiv and Moscow can share a conference table while missiles are still landing.
Zelensky politely calls that fantasy.
Putin escalates exactly as world leaders gather to talk about stability and growth. Zelensky stays home to deal with blackouts and air defenses.
One guy is at war. Everyone else is networking.
Source: Independent
Does anyone believe Zelensky has anything to contribute?
good question … NO
Which home is Zman staying at?
Little Z wants money.
He needs to do what the people want.
Have a honest election.
Wait – Z is actually threatening President Trump if he doesn’t do what Z demands? Exactly who does this guy think he is?
The US had a peace deal that he walked away from after the EU coalition talked him out of it. The US should wash their hands of it and let the EU be their sole teat.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. (Romans 1:27, KJV)
Bessent follows the above dont forget he was front man for George Soros when George took down the Euroweenies economy. Scott has several videos bragging how easy it was to simply wait thru their strategic BS filling their accounts with billions.
Now dont get me wrong Scott is in this view doing well for the American economy. Please just dont forget.
Prophecy in the Bible is being fulfilled daily thru these characters sometimes hard to view but we are setting up the Hatred of Israel the 3.5 years of relative peace and abundance or so it appears.
Then shall they know that I [am] the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 39:28, KJV)
Like the kids of today say if you know you know. God BLess to you all. Live well he gives us the choice here.
Dear Jonas,…. Google Manifest Destiny and you’ll get the historical point.
Unless and until you can provide me with factual assurances that Norway can defend itself and Greenland from actual foreign kinetic threats,…. Greenland will remain the Destiny of the USA, that can defend it, and all of NATO that I recreated, as well as the Western Hemisphere. Got that?
And,… No, I am only concerned about creating real peace in this world,… not your Nobel token instead. BTW, Kingdoms are so passe now.
Under NATO Article 5, if the the US takes over Greenland by force, does the US have to attack itself? Just asking.
Yes. Starting in Minneapolis.
Why not, we already have Federal forces there?
I dislike the undertone of hate against Zelensky here.
He is a hero.
In a very complex situation crisscrossed with hidden motives.
His focus is on Ukraine, which is proper.
If you want to be angry; be angry at imperial Putin,
the previous empty headed Democrat presidents,
the toxically stupid and backbiting European leadership class and
the manipulations of the out of control deep state elements.
The real issue is an aggressive imperial Russia and Putin’s mistake,
in taking advantage of chump American Presidents,
Obama and Pudin Head Biden, and suicidally stupid European leadership,
especially about Greenism and Russian gas.
In the context of China’s growing imperialism,
Orange Man Bad is trying to secure and bind peace in Ukraine.
Basically peace in Europe.
And an element of this is to save Russia and Europe from the failing course
they have set themselves on.
Not easy,
And also not Zelensky‘s fault.
Again, looked at clearly, he is a hero and his country is heroic.
Another real hero here has orange hair and
seems to think more clearly than anyone else.
With Sundance’s help, we start to look more deeply into
the haze and mirrors our corrupt news sources force on us.
Don’t let our new insight overlook simple heroism in Ukraine.
OMG! Yup, he’s the most corrupt hero I know. Ask the dead Ukraine soldiers how much of a hero he is, especially those that were
dragged out of the street onto the front lines to do his bidding.
When I see Z-man standing on the front lines as Putin’s SMO marches towards him……then maybe then you can call him a hero.
I’d just call him stupid.
I’m just waiting to hear that the United States welcomes Greenland as an unincorporated territory of the United States and rescinds the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917.
Regarding PDJT’s comment on the Nobel peace prize, I wonder if he already has plans to create a new non-woke award that will make the Nobel obsolete. It would be voted on by his new Peace Board. Besides $, the awardee would also get USA citizenship or something like a golden passport that allows free travel to the USA for life. On a same but different topic, Perhaps one of the reasons why PDJT wants ownership of Greenland is if becomes USA territory, ‘mericans would not need a visa to travel or live there for extended periods. (Greenland only offers 90 day landing permits from what I gather).
As our VSGPDJT would say, ” IIIIII Like It….I Like It Alot!”
This is far more interesting than what passes for television these days!
Someone should make a film about this, but since the principal character is DJT, it will never happen.
That is one of the best letters I have ever read in my life. Questions? Re-read the letter. All is answered within. He is the greatest communicator ever.
How would you feel if the next Democrat president replaces Trump as the Chair of this Board of Peace?
Would not be good.