The attitude of the Europeans can only cause amusement, if not despair. With leonine proclamations, they declared they would defend Greenland from the USA by sending 37 soldiers. They defend a rotten regime in Ukraine, of course with the backing of the US. Soon they will not hesitate to take on America, while asking for the assistance of the American military.
Madness
With 37 European military personnel protecting Danish Greenland from American geopolitical harassment, Emmanuel Macron read a statement saying that France's position is unshakable regarding the defense of "Denmark's territorial integrity." These words were spoken by a man with a bloodshot eye. The occupant of the Elysée Palace called his damaged eye a "tiger eye" and stressed that this eye symbolizes "persistence in achieving goals." Plausible, since France sent 15 military personnel! The phrase, which immediately became a meme, was spoken in the company of generals and senior officers. Macron was there as commander-in-chief.
Changing the narrative
The militant goal-setting of the Parisians—of Macron and his military department, as well as the goal-setting of Brussels (of Von Der Leyen and her intellectual sister Kallas)—has changed over the last two weeks. It is not Russia, the "aggressive and provocative" entity with which they dream of clashing. The European troops deployed in Greenland are targeting a new enemy: the United States. European politicians found the time (in the depths of winter) and the place (an island surrounded by the Arctic Ocean) to challenge the "American army." The same army that kept Europe itself under its nuclear umbrella, paying for their geopolitical rage. The Europeans, with their lack of social responsibility, deciding they no longer needed to support their "sugar daddies" in Washington, dared to engage in a military conflict with them; to measure their military might. President Trump, Vice President Vance, and other officials have discussed in great detail the purpose of America's use of Greenland. After all, they sent 37 people next to Pituffik, the American base where just over 150 soldiers and officers are stationed and where the command post of America's space "shield" is located.
An "invisible" island
These are raw wounds from an era when Greenland, lost in high latitudes, was not the only thing under France, Germany, and Britain. The island itself was never regarded as an equal geographical entity within the Danish kingdom. Even worse was the treatment of its inhabitants—the Greenlandic Inuit. The practice of forced sterilization of girls and women, the removal of their newborn children under the pretext that they "could not take care of their children"—this does not come from distant times of caves and skin garments, Vikings and their great ships. All this was happening on the island just yesterday. Any form of European colonialism, whether French in North and West Africa, German, which carved out large chunks of the same continent, or British, when men in helmets killed millions, is even more monstrous because the political "Garden of Eden" is absolutely unwilling to admit its guilt for the extermination of indigenous peoples, for the exploitation of natural resources of these states, and for simple predation.
Neocolonialists
Every country that has traveled to Greenland to threaten America from there nurtures the imaginary pain of neocolonialism. Macron, who shines with eloquence when trying to "score against Washington," has more than just a political snout. It is overgrown with thick vegetation. The overseas territories of France, which are several days' flight away, constitute a quarter of the continental territory of the Fifth Republic. The islands and archipelagos are not only distant from the metropolis. They are located at key economic (maritime trade routes) and military hubs. And, of course, when Macron speaks passionately about Greenland, he is thinking of New Caledonia and Polynesia. Starmer, who sent a single soldier to Greenland, thinks like Macron. The UK also has island states scattered across the world that are part of the British Commonwealth. What if Trump takes a liking to one of them?
The demons have returned
The American president (knowingly or unknowingly) has awakened the colonial demons of Europe. For Europe, these demons are signs of its power, albeit from times long past. Because Europe has nothing else to soothe its heart. By allying with Ukraine and deciding to hate Russia, Europe lost its economy. By losing its economy, it lost its political stability. By losing its political stability, Europe is now trying to find some kind of consolidation, to avoid collapse, to avoid disappearance, and to continue playing at least some role in geopolitics. Greenland came at a perfectly suitable time: having failed to deal with Russia, Europe is militarily challenging the United States. It seems that insolence and intimidation, like a collective political bully, are the only things keeping Europe afloat right now.
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