The world is changing dramatically, the changes, the upheavals, what is unfolding on the international geopolitical chessboard are frightening and unprecedented.
Trump imposed tariffs on 8 European countries
Donald Trump, the American President, imposed tariffs on eight European countries due to their stance toward Greenland.
At the same time, Europe freezes the European Union agreement with the United States.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian delegation arrived in the United States for yet another round of “peace talks” after another round of consultations with the Europeans.
This time, these talks are impossible without a framework, which, of course, is the overt intention of the United States to render NATO obsolete by committing an act of aggression against an ally and “detaching” Greenland from Denmark.
The Ukrainian issue is linked to Greenland
The Ukrainian conflict can no longer continue without the Greenland scenario, regardless of how it ends.
And once this happens, the Ukrainian conflict will inevitably evolve into something new.
The current tactic of the Europeans on the issue of Greenland is to remain silent publicly —although this is becoming increasingly difficult— while at the same time working diligently behind closed doors with those American politicians who support the preservation of NATO, the “transatlantic community” —in short, the West as a geopolitically unified whole.
Dirty closed doors
There are many such politicians in Washington, if not the majority.
There are many of them in the Trump administration as well.
These politicians, like the Europeans, should not be underestimated.
The Ukrainian issue proved that Trump cannot easily break their collective will and strategy.
Otherwise, he would have quickly forced Zelensky to honor his agreements with Putin in Alaska and would ultimately have pulled the United States out of the quagmire into which the Ukrainian conflict continues to drag it.
Greenland is more important to the US than Ukraine
For the United States, Greenland is undoubtedly more important than Ukraine, but for the supporters of preserving the “collective West”, Ukraine is unconditionally more important than Greenland.
Because the plan “Ukraine as anti Russian” is a plan of existential struggle against the Russians, who 80 years ago gave birth to the “collective West”.
Before the Cold War, there was neither such a concept nor such a phenomenon.
There were the United States and the European countries.
But after the formalization of the strategy of “containment” of the USSR, the Marshall Plan, NATO, the IMF and other structures were born that connected the Old and the New World into a single geopolitical entity.
The deep state does not want the conflict with Russia to end
The end of the conflict with Russia will raise the question: why should the two sides of the Atlantic be together under NATO?
The election of Trump for two presidential terms in the United States demonstrates that in the United States the view is strengthening that there is no need.
What should the supporters of “transatlantic solidarity” do in this case?
They are preparing a new dirty deal
Within this framework, the supporters of “transatlantic solidarity” are planning a dirty deal.
The American “deep state” and the bureaucrats of Brussels will sacrifice Denmark. behind the supposed tension between the United States and Europe. the future is being redesigned.
In return, Trump does not withdraw the United States from the conflict around Ukraine, but rather abandons his neutrality and his peace stance and returns to the region on the side of Ukraine.
The worst lies ahead
Result: Europe loses its Arctic future and its prospects together with Greenland, but NATO remains intact, the United States remains mired in the affairs of the Old World and continues to participate in the war with Russia until the last Ukrainian (then it will be the turn of the Baltic and Eastern Europe).
A new Munich Agreement is coming
The analogy is obvious. the Munich Agreement.
The Munich Agreement was a treaty signed on 30 September 1938 by Germany, Italy, Great Britain and France, which ceded the German speaking region of Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Hitler’s Germany, with the aim of avoiding war through the policy of appeasement.
The agreement was initially considered a success for peace, but it soon proved to be a failure, as Germany violated the terms, occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, ultimately leading to the outbreak of World War II.
A shameful decision to sacrifice a small country in order to direct the aggressor’s actions eastward.
If the plan had succeeded, France and Britain would have been drinking champagne watching the destruction of the Soviet Union.
But, as we know, the plan did not work.
Because Russia was always good at reacting and winning wars.
Europeans will run to Russia for protection
In 2022, the Europeans proved incapable of understanding and accepting that Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine aimed, among other things, at protecting them.
And now they are reaping the tragic fruits of their blindness.
Today, the world is widely discussing Trump’s plan to expand the so called Peace Council, which, according to the mandate of the UN Security Council, was initially supposed to perform mediation functions for resolving the conflict in Gaza.
The composition of the Peace Council
Today, the composition of the Council looks very much like a golf club at Mar a Lago: Trump himself (the chairman), his son in law Jared Kushner, Mark Rowan, Trump’s billionaire friend, former British prime minister Tony Blair, US Secretary of State Rubio, Steve Witkoff, special envoy and personal friend of Trump, Robert Gabriel, an official of the Trump administration, and the CEO of the World Bank, Ajay Banga.
However, according to the Financial Times, Trump plans not only to expand the list of members of the Peace Council, but also its geographical scope: specifically, Venezuela and Ukraine are planned to be included in the “area of responsibility” of the Council.
Each member country must pay 1 billion dollars.
Surprises at the Davos Forum
As for the new individuals, the US President stated that he will announce the expanded list at the upcoming Davos Forum and that it will be “the largest and most authoritative Council ever created anywhere”.
According to the Financial Times, panic has been caused in the international community because the Trump administration views the Peace Council “as a potential substitute for the UN, a kind of parallel, informal body for dealing with other conflicts beyond Gaza”.
Over the past two months, Trump and his team have made absolutely clear and frank to anyone willing to listen that neither international law in general nor the UN in particular matters anymore.
International law “is for the weak”
For example, the Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Adviser, Steven Miller, after the pitiful cries of Europe over the invasion of Venezuela, stated that “the United States is a superpower and under President Trump we will act as a superpower”.
As for international law, “it is for the weak”: “You can say whatever you want about international courtesies and all that.
But we live in the real world, which is governed by violence, coercion and power.
These are the iron laws of life”.
The UN? I do not care what the UN says
Another prominent member of the Peace Council, Secretary of State Rubio, dismissed the role of the UN: “The UN?
I do not care what the UN says.
The UN has no idea what it is doing”.
Trump himself was even more candid.
When asked what the limits of his power were, he replied with modesty:
“My own moral beliefs.
My own mind.
That is the only thing that can stop me.
I do not need international law”.
Europeans at an impasse
It is funny and sad at the same time that the Europeans were foaming at the mouth accusing Russia of exactly this, even though Russia was merely defending itself and trying to preserve peace and international law.
A recent article by Al Jazeera contained a surprisingly logical passage:
“The Russians see themselves as guardians of the old order, extreme conservatives in foreign policy.
They perceive the US led West as a revisionist force responsible for dismantling the post war global order and view the war in Ukraine as a way of confronting this revisionism”.
At a recent ceremony for the presentation of credentials to new foreign ambassadors, Russian President Putin emphasized Russia’s commitment to adhering to recognized international rules and relevant institutions. Specifically, Putin noted that “Russia supports strengthening the fundamental, central role of the United Nations in global affairs” and stressed “the importance of the imperatives enshrined in the United Nations Charter”, including equality, respect for sovereignty, non interference in internal affairs and the resolution of disputes through dialogue.
Putin recalled that 80 years ago, after the end of World War II, “our fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers” managed to unite, find a balance of interests and agree on the rules of international communication.
Now, “instead of dialogue between states, we hear the monologue of those who, by right of the strong, consider it permissible to dictate their will, teach life lessons and issue orders”.
The Estonian International Centre for Defence and Security expressed a disruptive idea for the first time
In a study titled “2026: A Year of Bad Choices for Europe”, the Estonian International Centre for Defence and Security expressed for the first time a disruptive idea:
Europe made a mistake and perhaps now should apologize to Russia, otherwise Europe will be finished.
“States that possess significant military power and the political will to use it, especially the United States, China and Russia, have already charted a clear course toward consolidating their spheres of influence.
Estonia (and all of Europe) should avoid a hard oppositional stance that argues that any engagement with Russia is inherently wrong or dangerous.
Such an approach will not help shape Europe’s future policy toward Russia”.
Intervention by Stoltenberg, Russia is a neighbor
The former NATO Secretary General, Stoltenberg, expressed roughly the same sentiment yesterday, calling for an urgent “restoration of dialogue with Russia” and “to talk to it as a neighbor”.
Putin stated that Russia is ready to restore relations with Europe: and “I want to believe” that over time, Russia and Europe “will return to normal, constructive communication”.
But blinded by hatred, envy and fear, Europe once again bet on confrontation with Russia, and this could now lead to its erasure from the political and historical map, unless Russia helps it again.
There is only one question: is it worth it?
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