The president of the United States, , wants to impose his vision of the world the hard way. Diplomacy, allies, negotiations, the rights of others… That is secondary for those who claim that their only limit is . Well, it must seem moral to reveal private messages exchanged with world leaders. Anything to leave them in doubt and force them to do what he wants them to do.
And, in the last few hours, the Republican (who today) has begun to publish conversations with both the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, and the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte.
In the first case, Trump has shared on his social networks what appears to be a screenshot of a “note from President Emmanuel Macron of France.” According to the news agency, a source close to Macron has confirmed the authenticity of the message. In the exchange of messages, the liberal says: “I don’t understand what you are doing with” and requests to organize a meeting of the G7 countries after the World Economic Forum in Davos, which has just started in Switzerland and which Trump is practically going to monopolize.
“We are aligned in Syria, we can do great things in Iran, but I don’t understand what you are doing with Greenland,” is the exact phrase that the French president uses.
The French president also states that Russia would be invited to join on the sidelines of this proposed G7 meeting. Russia was expelled from the group, formerly known as the G8, in 2014 in response to its annexation of . Now, with this gesture, he is trying to promote the peace process with Ukraine, to end the invasion initiated by Vladimir Putin in February 2022. The French president also tells Trump: “Let’s have dinner together in Paris on Thursday night before returning to the United States.”
“We have to have it”
Trump continues to ramp up his speech on Greenland, before traveling to Davos this week, his first in-person visit since 2020. Last night, the US president was asked by reporters what he plans to say this week to the , many of whom have rejected his plans to seize the Arctic island. “Look, we have to have it,” the magnate responded, and added: “You can’t protect it,” he insisted.
He also predicted that NATO allies would not object too much to his claim to the area, an autonomous territory under the Kingdom of Denmark (which is a country in both the Atlantic Alliance and the European Union) and dismissed European deployments there, calling them “non-military.” “NATO has been warning Denmark about the Russian threat for 20 years,” he declared. “It’s not just about Russia, but also about China,” he insists, despite the fact that there are no declared threats from either power in the area.
“We’ll see what happens,” he added. “Let’s put it this way: it will be an interesting Davos,” he added.
Threat of punishment
Trump’s post with Macron’s message comes after he threatened France with 200% tariffs on wine and champagne due to France’s refusal to collaborate with the US president’s Gaza plan. On Monday, Paris announced that it will not enter into the current conditions set by the White House, in the , because in its opinion it questions the principles of multilateralism and the operating structure of the UN.
It’s something that we already talked about, without anyone hearing it, when the plan was presented, by the way.
The French Minister of Agriculture, Annie Genevard, denounced this morning the use of “blackmail” by the American president. “It is a hostile statement towards France” and “a threat that seeks to make Europeans bow down,” Genevard said this Tuesday in statements to the TF1 channel.
For the head of Agriculture, it is “doubly shocking” due to “the dimension of the threat” since it proposes tariffs of 200% that would very seriously affect productions that depend largely on exports and also “it is shocking because it is brutal,” reports EFE.
“I commit”
To warm up his visit to Europe, Trump has also revealed another message, in this case from the Dutch Rutte, head of NATO. In it, he thanks him for his work in Syria, which he describes as “incredible”, and states: “I am committed to finding a solution for Greenland.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has announced that he will meet at the Forum held in the Swiss city of Davos with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, to talk about Greenland.
In a message on his Truth social network, Trump indicates that he has had “a very interesting telephone conversation” with Rutte “about Greenland” and that he has agreed to meet with him in Davos.
“I had a very interesting telephone conversation with Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO, about Greenland. I agreed to a meeting of the different parties in Davos, Switzerland,” says the American president.
“Greenland is imperative for national and global security. There is no turning back. We all agree on that!” adds the Republican president.
He also assures that “the United States is, by far, the most powerful country in the world. Much of this is due to the reconstruction of our Armed Forces during my first term, a reconstruction that continues at an even faster pace.”
And he believes that the United States is “the only power that can guarantee peace throughout the world. And it is achieved, simply, with strength!”
