Response to a Friend’s Facebook page/post.
I AM a bit bothered by the word "security" these days but I do recognize leadership SOPs. Yet per Mr Trump's playbook, his trade tact outweighs his balancing act in regards to doves/hawks in his foreign affairs agenda. Clearly, he is not a fan of NATO (he already lowered U.S. share in 2019). He doesn't favor too much military expenditures yet we know that the Pentagon's Defense budget keeps on spiking. That is an American fact, regardless that China's military budget is 4x less.
President Trump's major issue with the EU isn't Greenland (as media narrates). It is Ukraine. The EU still backs up Kyiv with military aid, irrelevant of Europe's economic murk.
Ergo, while Don keeps the hawks in Washington calm, he also issues his dovish agenda. That is tough. The reason why he sold new arms in Asia and Saudi Arabia yet he pursued peace.
BEFORE Joe Biden, and while Angela Merkel was in power, the EU was cool with Russia. Europe needs Moscow's oil and gas; Norway isn't enough. The reason the economy stays below 1 percent is they lost that fuel (although some EU members continue to buy from Moscow/Gazprom actually; some via India).
Regardless of the war, Russia is still #1 natural gas exporter and #2 in oil (exports). Per Trump, the only way to deal with Ukraine is to end the war. Let the disputed (secessionist) Donbas region decide for themselves. Then talk about Ukraine’s rare earth and wasted natural resources. That is the issue anyway, going back to Euromaidan in 2014. The EU wanted these resources. They believe a war will do that as though we are in the 17th century still when the West could easily impose, via military aggression.
THE fact of the (current) world is, when a country purchases a territory, that is a corporate budget and the upkeep is shared with the government, and so on and so forth. So if Denmark sells Greenland, that'd be the lowdown.
You see, China has been “quietly” buying lands globally since the Deng Xiaoping years, after Mao Zedong's death. But they don’t do it a-la America or Europe. You know I mean? They don’t like drama. While the world busies itself from all-Trump, China’s BRI, or Belt and Road Initiative, or trade expansionism carries on. ☮️☮️☮️
