Donald Trump has flown to Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos. In his opening address, not only the U.S. president bragged about the U.S. economy – citing reduced inflation, high economic growth and a record-setting stock market – but also happily mocking and ridiculing Europe, while repeating his claim that only the U.S. is capable of defending Greenland.
His playbook is very simple – make audacious demands, threaten economic or military consequences if those demands aren’t met, then wait for his opponents to bend over. Using such strategy to achieve his policy agenda, Trump appears to have won again – a “concept of deal” with NATO to grab Greenland’s minerals as well as “Golden Dome” missile defence system in exchange for not slapping extra tariffs on Europe.
There are a few countries Trump respects the most, and amusingly they are not the U.S. allies. And the leaders he dares not bully are Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and even North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Un. European Union is easy meat for Trump largely because the E.U. leaders are weak, and partly due to Europe’s reliance on the U.S. for military protection.
When Trump repeats criticism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and threats to undercut the trans-Atlantic alliance to bring the American allies to the negotiating table, Russia orders popcorn. Now that Trump has threatened to colonize Greenland, sending panic among NATO members in Europe, Moscow cheers and praises the U.S. president.
“There are Russian destroyers, there are Chinese destroyers and, bigger, there are Russian submarines all over the place,” – President Trump said recently as he tried to justify why the U.S. should own and control Greenland. Rather than offended by the wild accusations, one of Russian government newspapers is full of praise for Trump and critical of European leaders who oppose a U.S. annexation of Greenland.
“Standing in the way of the U.S. president’s historic breakthrough is the stubbornness of Copenhagen and the mock solidarity of intransigent European countries, including so-called friends of America, Britain and France. Europe does not need the American greatness that Trump is promoting. Brussels is counting on ‘drowning’ the US president in the midterm congressional elections, on preventing him from concluding the greatest deal of his life,” – writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The Russian newspaper instigates further – “If Trump annexes Greenland by July 4 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. With Greenland, the U.S. becomes the second-largest country in the world after Russia, surpassing Canada in area. For Americans, that’s on par with such planetary events as the abolition of slavery by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 or the territorial conquests of the Napoleonic Wars.”
Playing psychology game, the Russian reporter reminds Trump not to U-turn – “It is dangerous for the American president to back down over Greenland. This would weaken the position of the Republican Party in the midterm elections and likely result in a Democrat majority on Capitol Hill with the ensuing consequences for Trump. Whereas a rapid annexation of Greenland before the elections can change this political trend.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to undermine NATO for nearly two decades. Therefore, anything that weakens – or threatens to split – the Western alliance is viewed by Moscow as a huge positive for Russia. Of course, watching and cheering with popcorn from the sidelines would be insufficient. Russia must add fuel to the fire by rubbing Trump’s ego.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this week – “By resolving the issue of Greenland’s annexation, Trump will undoubtedly go down in the history books. And not only in the history of the United States, but in world history,” Raining such praises on Trump, who hyped himself as the “Acting President” of Venezuela, would certainly encourage the U.S. president to go all out against Europe.
Joining the bandwagon was Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said on Tuesday (January 20) that Greenland was not “a natural part” of Denmark. He said – “In principle, Greenland is not a natural part of Denmark, is it? It was neither a natural part of Norway nor a natural part of Denmark. It is a colonial conquest. The fact that the inhabitants are now accustomed to it and feel comfortable is another matter.”
While dismissing Trump’s assertion that Russia would seize the island if the U.S. didn’t, Lavrov took the opportunity to compare Greenland to Russia’s first land grab on Ukrainian territory – the 2014 annexation of Crimea, Kyiv’s peninsula on the Black Sea. “Crimea is no less important for the Russian Federation than Greenland is for the United States,” – he said.
The remarks spoke directly to the fears of some European leaders that Trump’s move to take Greenland would degrade the norms of international law and potentially embolden Putin further in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, where smaller countries rely almost entirely on the collective might of the alliance. It’s not every day that Russia gets the chance to play the game of “divide and conquer”.
From the beginning, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was aimed in part at preventing Kyiv from joining NATO, whose eastward expansion has long been one of Putin’s chief grievances against the West. The Soviet Union’s Cold War-era answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact, fell apart as a series of democratic revolutions, and the fall of the Soviet Union opened the way for nations once aligned with Moscow to join the Atlantic bloc.
The growing rift between Washington and Brussels could be the opening shot of a total realignment in Western security policy to the benefit of Russia. By sowing instability in an alliance that Moscow has long seen as a threat, Russia hopes that tensions could boil over with the two sides exchanging fire and dissolving NATO. Ukraine would then fall into the hands of Russia.
Criticizing Europe and praising Trump at the same time naturally becomes a simple tactic for Russia to maintain a positive relationship with the Trump administration. Efforts by European leaders for a year to charm President Donald Trump with flattery and dealmaking – lucrative promises to purchase U.S. goods including weapons, visits with royals and gifts such as a custom-engraved golf club – have gone up in smoke.
As for the Russian supremo – Vladimir Putin – response on Trump’s ambition to invade Greenland, he simply said that it “doesn’t concern us at all,” adding – “I think they’ll figure it out among themselves.” Putin said last year that Trump’s push for control over Greenland wasn’t surprising, given longtime U.S. interest in the territory. Putin noted that the U.S. first considered plans to control over Greenland in the 19th century, and then offered to buy it from Denmark after World War II.
Moscow was also happy that Greenland was diverting attention from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s effort to negotiate a favourable peace settlement to end Russia’s invasion of his country. The Greenland issue isn’t over even if Europe surrenders Greenland’s minerals “forever” to the U.S. There will be more demands from Washington as the bully slowly eats up the Danish territory.
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January 22nd, 2026 by financetwitter
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