Having captured Nicolas Maduro and paved the way for controlling the oil deposits in Venezuela (and the largest discovered so far in the world) Donald Trump had quite a few business to discuss with the heads of major American oil companies. At a later briefing, however, the subject fell on plans for possible further interference in the geopolitical puzzle.
The president of the United States returned to his fresh dée to fix, or aneccting Greenland. He argued that the U.S. had to take the largest island of the planet to NATO allies from Denmark, due to the fact that these supposedly do not supply protection against Russian and Chinese occupation.
Copenhagen, of course, rejects specified accusations and emphasizes that only the United States is the only power to open up in Danish territory. Trump, however, maintained strategical deafness in relation to these arguments and spoke to petrobismen and journalists gathered at the event:
So what are the options on the table? I'd like to make a deal, you know, in an easy way. But if we don't do it the easy way, we'll do it the hard way – Trump smoked. 1 can imagine that this is simply a military solution. And that would most likely mean the end of NATO as we know it...
Danish soldiers are expected to shoot without orders. And the Portuguese are already afraid for the Azores.
As she explained in NaTemat.pl Ola Gersz, all types of Danish armed forces are legally obliged to respond immediately – including the surrender of fire without orders – to any threat to the integrity of borders.
This issue is regulated by the 1952 precautionary regulation. Although they were introduced more than 7 decades ago as a consequence to the experience of planet War II, the Danish Ministry of Defence officially confirmed that these provisions were inactive in force.
And leaders of political groups operating within Greenland's autonomy just issued a message in which they emphasize that "Greenland's future must be decided". "We don't want to be Americans, we don't want to be Danish. We want to be Greenlandians" – that is the position above political divisions.
Donald Trump's imperial policy, however, raises concern not only in Denmark. The fear that the Americans will be coming on their territory in a moment, too, is reported by the Portuguese. In their case, 1 of the main themes of the ongoing presidential run is the search for answers to the question of how to defend the Azores from annexation.
These Portuguese islands lying in the Atlantic Ocean (in fact on a consecutive line between Lisbon and Washington) most of us are known as a tourist paradise. For the powerful of this world, however, they are interesting for a completely different reason.
Because of their location, the Azores are of strategical military importance, being the alleged hub for aviation in the event of armed conflicts in this part of the world. Their possession was 1 of the main arguments for the comparatively weak feudal and mediocre Portugal to be accepted as NATO founding members in 1949.
Like Greenland, an American base was founded in the Azores years ago. Terceira, located on the island, served as an crucial backdrop for US forces and allies – for example, as a place to refuel aircraft supporting operations in the mediate East and Africa. Now she could facilitate an operation to put the archipelago within the U.S. borders.
