‘The US needs Greenland for what again?’: Trump is now suggesting Russia and China are not enemies and NATO is the ‘real threat’
So, it was all about getting back at NATO?
For weeks, Donald Trump has justified his fixation on Greenland with a single, blunt argument: America needs it for security. Against whom? Russia and China. And then, on Jan. 20, Trump quietly reposted something against NATO, which collapsed that entire story.
On his Truth Social, Trump shared another user’s post, which argued that China and Russia are merely “boogeymen.” It asserted that the real enemy is within. Not the radical left this time. They called the United Nations and NATO the real threat against the United States. The post also mentioned a vaguely defined “religion” dismissed as a cult.
So let’s pause and take inventory. According to Trump, Russia and China are not the real threat, and the enemy is “within.” NATO and the UN are the real threats. On the other hand, Greenland is essential for U.S. security because of Russian and Chinese threats. The only explanation for propagating both narratives at once would be that Trump has been drinking. But he doesn’t drink. So, he’s just deranged.
Trump’s Greenland argument has always leaned on fear. He’s repeatedly warned that adversaries, especially Russia and China, pose looming threats in the Arctic. That logic has been used to float military presence, economic leverage, and even outright acquisition. But Trump’s recent actions have been pointing in the opposite direction.
He invited Vladimir Putin to join his so-called Board of Peace. He’s been trash-talking about NATO every once in a while. And now he’s publicly amplifying rhetoric that reframes NATO itself as the enemy. At the same time, it downplays Russia and China as manufactured villains. But you can’t have it both ways, Don.
If NATO is the problem and Russia and China aren’t the threat, then the Greenland narrative isn’t about defense. It wasn’t about protection at all. It was always about power. It’s about dismantling alliances. Because once you strip away the security pretext, the Greenland obsession looks very different.
Greenland sits at the intersection of NATO cooperation, rare-earth access, and European unity. Undermining Denmark over Greenland weakens NATO. And dining with Russia on his Board of Peace while attacking NATO fractures the alliance from the inside. That’s not a defense strategy, it’s a reordering strategy, and Trump accidentally told on himself.
There’s a final irony that Trump’s repost stumbles into without noticing. It warns about a “cult.” This is coming from a movement that demands loyalty over law, treats criticism as treason, and rewrites reality whenever facts become inconvenient. MAGA accusing others of being a cult is like arsonists warning about fire hazards.
Trump’s repost didn’t just contradict his Greenland argument. It obliterated it. Greenland was never about national security. It was about breaking alliances, testing boundaries, and seeing how much imperial rhetoric could be normalized before anyone said no.
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