Message #48303

[mccoy]

The Greenland story is fascinating. President trump sure talks like a crazy man sometimes, other times he's more reasonable, he's confounding people every day but his claims on Greenland have a reasonable aspect. Strategic positioning and defense of the Arctic sea. All geopolitical analysts here agree upon that. And he maybe is leveraging the sentiments of Greenlanders, who like independence and maybe would like more to be a part of America rather than Europe.
We'll see.

In the meantime, I have a note of disappointment. The POTUS has interrupted intelligence support to Ukraine. Why? This is increasing the damage inflicted by Russian missiles upon the population. Unless it is something that will facilitate the negotiations, it sounds like a cruel decision. But we're going to see. Sure, the cosmic drama is not boring right now.

Unfortunately, in the past the USA and Europe have encouraged Ukraine to keep up with the war, maybe expecting an imminent breakdown of Russia. Colossal mistake. They wanted escalation (above all Biden) and did not think about diplomacy. This error probably costed many hundreds of thousands of lives.

So, based on an impartial observation of facts, Mr. Trump is inheriting a difficult situation. I'm on the fence now, waiting for the promised negotiations results. They must be there unless the POTUS loses much of his face.