[Benjamin]

Russian state media praises Trump's Greenland takeover push

Listen to Donald Trump and you would think Moscow would be furious that its alleged plot to capture Greenland is being thwarted by a US takeover.

That is not the case.

In fact, the Russian government newspaper is full of praise for Trump and critical of European leaders who oppose his annexation of Greenland.

One article outlines the "stubbornness of Copenhagen" and "mock solidarity" of its European allies standing in the way of Trump's "historic breakthrough".

"If Trump annexes Greenland by 4 July 2026, when America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he will go down in history as a figure who asserted the greatness of the United States," writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

I have to keep reminding myself I am reading the Russian government newspaper, not a pro-Trump publication in America.

Read the full account of the Russian state press' reaction to Trump's move for Greenland here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2k7gv0znmt

[Maru]

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Maru

Revealed: Message Norway PM sent Trump that sparked president's Nobel outburst https://mol.im/a/15477311

….that he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace anymore because he wasn’t given the peace prize is one big indication of why he would never qualify for the peace prize…right, I didn’t win…let’s start invading…!!!!!!…just so crazy and no self awareness whatsoever…

[LaLaLand]

Basically a spoilt brat who has thrown his toys out of the pram because he didn’t get the NPP so is causing chaos for everyone.

Dangerous manchild.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by LaLaLand

Basically a spoilt brat who has thrown his toys out of the pram because he didn’t get the NPP so is causing chaos for everyone.

Dangerous manchild.

…I imagine that FIFA a feeling a bit silly in their choice right now…Man of the World Peace Match/Trump….oh…

[bots]

Originally Posted by Ammi

….that he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace anymore because he wasn’t given the peace prize is one big indication of why he would never qualify for the peace prize…right, I didn’t win…let’s start invading…!!!!!!…just so crazy and no self awareness whatsoever…

it's gangster behaviour. You didn't give me what i wanted so i'm going to kick the crap out of you. Just like all gangsters, you can never satisfy them, they always want more

If i was an american citizen now, given what has been happening with ICE, i would be thinking wtf will he do to me if this is how he treats his allies.

It's the putin playbook and look what happened to the citizens of russia

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I imagine that FIFA a feeling a bit silly in their choice right now…Man of the World Peace Match/Trump….oh…

It’s going to make for a very awkward World Cup.

[Zizu]

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Ammi

….that he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace anymore because he wasn’t given the peace prize is one big indication of why he would never qualify for the peace prize…right, I didn’t win…let’s start invading…!!!!!!…just so crazy and no self awareness whatsoever…

My guess is he is not being well received on the whole of late and this a narcissistic response to rejection.

[Maru]

Gold, Silver Hit Record Highs As Trump Tariffs, Greenland Row Spark Global Uncertainty
https://www.news18.com/business/savi...l-9840755.html

Gold, Silver Prices At Record High: Gold and silver prices hit a record high at the international spot market following the rising geopolitical uncertainty over US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric to acquire Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark. Trump has gone one step further by putting additional 10 per cent tariffs on many European countries amid staunch opposition to his whimsical demand.

Greenland’s acquisition attempt by the US has thrown the world into turmoil, with the European Union scrambling to thwart it. European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa responded with a joint statement, stating that such measures would weaken transatlantic ties and could trigger a harmful cycle.

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[arista]

[arista]

[Cherie]

The Epstein files well and truly buried... distract distract distract, there is no need for him to Annex Greenland they have already told him he can have as many bases as he wants

[Maru]

[arista]

Thats Great Maru

[Maru]

*UK official says Trump conceded he may have been given “bad information” about European troops to Greenland

President Donald Trump conceded in a weekend phone call with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that he may have been given “bad information” on the announcement of troop deployments from European countries to Greenland, according to a senior UK official.

Several European NATO countries announced last week that they’re deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland to participate in joint exercises with Denmark, drawing ire from Trump.

CNN has asked the White House for comment on the phone call.

The source added that Danish diplomats had briefed the US in advance of the public announcements. A Danish official told CNN that the deployment was not just communicated in advance, but pre-coordinated within existing European and US military structures.

Still, UK officials see this concession as a path to de-escalation.

In recent days, multiple European diplomats have told CNN that they have been surprised by the rapid escalation in tensions across the Atlantic and within the NATO alliance.

Following a Wednesday meeting in Washington between Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Greenland’s foreign minister Vivian Motzfeldt and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, Rasmussen told reporters that the US and Europe maintain a “fundamental disagreement” over Greenland.

Privately, Danish and Greenland officials present in that meeting told CNN that while Rubio and Vance listened to their positions and “red lines,” the US side did not relent on Trump’s ultimate goal of gaining control over the island. Those diplomats did say, however, that the establishment of a high-level working group on Greenland at least provides an opportunity for the two sides to continue their dialogue.

Trump’s text message to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre yesterday, stating that he no longer feels bound “to think purely of Peace” because the Norwegian Nobel Committee did not award him the Nobel Peace Prize adds an entirely new flashpoint in the standoff, apparently entirely unconnected to Trump’s previous upset at the deployment of a small number of European forces to Greenland to assess security needs there.

[arista]

[Maru]

In the DM:

Greenland is only the beginning: MARK HALPERIN reveals the full scope of Trump's global 'disruption' plan... and its secret architects
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...-halperin.html

President Trump's renewed tariff threat against Europe puts into sharp relief two questions that matter more than any single trade dispute: how the president and his team are doing at remaking America's standing in the world, and whether they are actually succeeding at reinvigorating the US economy.

Those twin missions rest, more than anywhere else, on the shoulders of two men: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

By some combination of luck, design and political survival instinct, Rubio and Bessent have emerged as the two most broadly respected senior advisers in the Trump orbit.

They are widely viewed — across Wall Street, foreign capitals, television green rooms, Capitol Hill and elite opinion-shaping circles — as smart, serious, qualified and genuinely accomplished.

That may sound obvious, but it is not trivial. The same adjectives would not be applied, in too many cases, to several other cabinet officials, whose reputations are more ideological, performative or controversial. Vice President JD Vance is a separate and sui generis case, one I'll save for another day.

What is striking about the current backlash to Trump's tariff threat is that almost none of the public anger has landed on Rubio or Bessent. The criticism is aimed squarely — and exclusively — at the man in the Oval Office.

That insulation is not accidental. It reflects the belief, held even by many Trump skeptics, that these two men represent ballast: grown-ups in the room who understand markets, alliances and second-order consequences.

From the perspective of the traditional foreign-policy establishment, this tariff gambit looks like a disaster. It risks antagonizing allies, spooking markets and weakening Western unity at a moment when Russia and China are actively testing it.

By some combination of luck, design and political survival instinct, Rubio (left) and Bessent (right) have emerged as the two most broadly respected senior advisers in the Trump orbit

They are widely viewed — across Wall Street, foreign capitals, television green rooms, Capitol Hill and elite opinion-shaping circles — as smart, serious, qualified and genuinely accomplished

From that vantage point, tariffs are a blunt instrument wielded recklessly. From the perspective of Team Trump, however, this is precisely how leverage is created and objectives are achieved.

In this case, the broader strategic aim — securing long-term American leverage in the Arctic, including Greenland — is seen as worth short-term diplomatic and economic turbulence.

The deeper question is whether Rubio and Bessent are executing a coherent strategy or merely providing intellectual cover for presidential impulse.

What critics often miss about Trump — and by extension about his top advisers — is his belief that a nation seeking radical change cannot move directly from an old equilibrium to a new one.

In Trump's worldview, stability can only be reached by passing through chaos. Disruption is not a regrettable side effect; it is the mechanism.

This tariff threat is chaos in its purest form. But from inside the administration, it is viewed as a calculated risk on a longer road toward strategic and economic reordering.

There are, to be fair, real signs of economic progress. Inflation has stabilized. Gas prices have dropped sharply. The stock market recently hit new highs. Wage growth has accelerated and, unlike during the later Biden years, is outpacing inflation.

Those are not trivial accomplishments in a post-pandemic, high-debt world.

Beyond the short-term indicators, the administration argues that lower taxes, reduced regulation, expanded domestic energy production and accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence will yield long-term gains that do not show up neatly in quarterly reports. Productivity, they say, is the prize.

On the global stage, the picture is more mixed. The war in Ukraine grinds on. Russia remains aggressive. China remains ambitious and patient. Yet Trump is pursuing a slate of high-level engagements — including planned summits with Xi Jinping — that his team believes could produce incremental but meaningful progress.



Mark Halperin is the editor-in-chief and host of the interactive live video platform 2WAY and the host of the video podcast 'Next Up' on the Megyn Kelly network

The skeptics, of course, have plenty of ammunition. The uncertainty surrounding the Federal Reserve has rattled markets and arguably benefited Beijing. European leaders are openly bristling. Protests have erupted in Denmark and Greenland. Electricity costs remain high. Health-care costs remain largely untouched. There has been no serious effort to rein in deficits or debt.

The list of unresolved economic and geopolitical challenges is long — and, in some areas, growing.

Against that backdrop, Trump has chosen to make things worse in the short term in the hope of making them better later. Rubio and Bessent are not passive observers of this strategy. They are its loyal foot soldiers and, in their respective domains, its intellectual architects.

Which raises the final, unavoidable question.

Are Rubio and Bessent master strategists in the tradition of a James Baker or Henry Kissinger — disciplined, historically grounded and ultimately vindicated?

Or are they men of good intentions who have been seduced by MAGA disruption, destined to leave behind a weakened NATO, emboldened autocrats in Moscow and Beijing and an American economy that works mainly for the already wealthy?

Spoiler alert: no one knows.

And anyone who tells you otherwise is selling certainty in an age that has very little of it.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I imagine that FIFA a feeling a bit silly in their choice right now…Man of the World Peace Match/Trump….oh…

Infantino's always been silly unfortunately.

[Ammi]

Trump cites UK’s ‘stupidity’ over Chagos Islands as reason to take over Greenland…


…moving from ‘I want it all’ to ‘I hate you all’…

[Benjamin]

The fact people still trust and encourage this guy is baffling.

[James]

One of the most frustrating things about all this is that the situation / crisis has been completely invented out of the thin air. Russia and China aren't going to take over Greenland. It would mean going to war with NATO, and America already has a military presence on the island.

[bots]

What it shows is that Trump doesnt give a toss about peace. His efforts were all to compete against Obama (who didn't deserve a peace prize either).

All Trump has ever been interested in is himself and when people don't bend to his will he throws his toys out the pram. He has always been like this in everything he has done

Unfortunately, he is now the most powerful man on the planet, but with that comes extreme danger. I would imagine there will be more and more people that will want to try and take him out and it may also end up spreading to his whole family

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by James

One of the most frustrating things about all this is that the situation / crisis has been completely invented out of the thin air. Russia and China aren't going to take over Greenland. It would mean going to war with NATO, and America already has a military presence on the island.

It’s a distraction because he’s a paedophile. Anything to stop people talking about the Epstein files.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bots

What it shows is that Trump doesnt give a toss about peace. His efforts were all to compete against Obama (who didn't deserve a peace prize either).

All Trump has ever been interested in is himself and when people don't bend to his will he throws his toys out the pram. He has always been like this in everything he has done

Unfortunately, he is now the most powerful man on the planet, but with that comes extreme danger. I would imagine there will be more and more people that will want to try and take him out and it may also end up spreading to his whole family

…I don’t think that he got over and through his rage and wrath of having to leave the White House after one term on his first ride…he’s like a movie villain on a demented rampage to take over the world…