Donald Trump unchained. The US president has not found any restraint since he gave the order to attack Venezuela and capture Nicolás Maduro. In just ten days it has gone around the international scene, also bringing its tentacles to Ukraine, Iran and Greenland. This last territory has obsessed in his desire to annex itdespite the fact that it belongs to a NATO ally, such as Denmark.
He Trump’s interest in taking over Greenland “by hook or by crook” passes through to take it away from Denmark. His single idea has generated an internal crisis in NATO, where the 32 members are divided between supporting the all-powerful US president or doing so with the aggrieved European partner.
Los Support comes to Denmark, especially from Europewhere the vast majority of NATO members are also members of the European Union. So, France, Germany, Italy and Spain have positioned themselves on the Danish side, trying to convince the US not to go any further in its campaign to seize Greenland, a sovereign territory of Denmark.
Reasons for an obsession
Donald Trump seems to ignore all this, as he repeats, day in and day out, his expansionist rhetoric towards the largest island in the world. Despite being a mostly unpopulated territory, for the Republican magnate it is a crucial “national security issue” for the United States.
Beyond your geostrategic position on the map, which also ‘motivates’ Russia or China, two of the most valuable assets today.
Meanwhile, Trump continues doing his thing and disdains any criticism of his expansionist policy. Sometimes he does it in his appearances, other times he does it on his favorite social network, Truth Social, where this Monday he left a more than striking reflection.
I´m the one who SAVED NATOreads one of his last messages. Something like “I am the one who saved NATO“, an analysis only available to Donald Trump.
To his credit, as the Secretary General, Mark Rutte, repeatedly acknowledges, remains the achievement of a unanimous signature of the 32 members in the commitment to dedicate up to 5% of each country’s GDP for defense issues.
This commitment includes Spain, which signed despite Pedro Sánchez’s refusal to go beyond 2.1%, a reason that caused, reaching ‘threaten’ expulsion from NATOsomething that cannot be decided without the unanimity of the rest of the members.
