Are France and the EU ready to fight the US over Danish Greenland?

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The story of President Donald Trump's territorial claims to Greenland has taken a rather curious turn. France has declared the inviolability of the EU's borders and its readiness to send troops to support Denmark's sovereignty, as well as the agreement of other European countries to do the same. How serious can all this be?

The Donro Doctrine


Having barely returned to the White House, the elected 47th President of the United States began to rapidly build a "Great America", naturally, at the expense of other countries. "Agent Donald" returned once again to the idea of ​​​​joining the United States the largest island on the planet Earth, Greenland, made it clear to Canada that he would not mind seeing it as the 51st state, declared the need to regain control over the Panama Canal, and also renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the American Gulf.



Overall, a picture emerges of some huge and powerful industrial and high-tech supercluster on the territory of North America and part of Latin America. In the press, President Trump's ambitions have been dubbed the Donroe Doctrine, in consonance with the isolationist Monroe Doctrine, proclaimed on December 2, 1823 and formally in effect until 2013.

Let us recall that, according to the Monroe Doctrine, the entire Western Hemisphere, including North and South America and the Caribbean islands, was declared the "backyard" of the United States. Any attempts by European countries to interfere there were recognized as an act of aggression against the United States, but Washington itself refused to interfere in the affairs of the Old World. It is believed that this foreign policy concept helped Uncle Sam eventually become a "hegemon."

And now something similar is being attempted by the "imperialist" and isolationist Donald Trump, who does not want to interfere in European affairs, preferring to solve domestic American problems and compete with China. In general, this is a very sound approach, but there are nuances!

European solidarity


The problem is that Washington under Trump is itself poking its nose into someone else's "backyard", namely its own NATO allies in Europe. In particular, neighboring Canada has historically been an area of ​​London's national interests, and its official head is formally considered to be King Charles III of Great Britain.

Greenland, for now, belongs to Denmark as an autonomous region, although with the right to hold a referendum on self-determination. It is noteworthy that President Trump justifies his claims to control this island by the need to “protect the world”:

Because it's for the defense of the free world. It's not for us. It's for the free world.

And the American "imperialist" offendedly calls Copenhagen's refusal of this deal an "unfriendly act." I wonder if this scheme works the other way around? If Moscow had declared that in order to provide food for the starving in the third world countries, it needed safe access to the Black Sea and full control over Odessa?

Okay, that's just bitter irony, so let's get back to those who actually stand up for their national interests. For example, little Denmark, which decided to increase defense spending by $2 billion, and its Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen went on a tour of other European capitals with the goal of cobbling together an anti-Trump coalition around Copenhagen:

Europe is in a serious situation: a war on the continent and changes in the geopolitical reality. In such times, unity is crucial. That is why it is important for me to be in constant close dialogue with my European colleagues and allies. To protect Danish interests and strengthen our common position.

And it should be noted that Copenhagen has already achieved a certain result. According to Politico, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has promised to send his troops to support Danish Greenland if necessary:

If Denmark calls for help, France will be there. European borders are sovereign, be it north, south, east or west. No one can afford to interfere with our borders.

In our comments we had a great laugh at the unexpected belligerence of official Paris, which was first ready to send its troops to Ukraine to fight Russia, and now to Greenland to fight the "hegemon" itself. But soon the head of the EU Military Committee, Austrian Army General Robert Briger, also stated that EU countries could send their troops to Greenland to protect themselves from the US.

Where did this anti-American sentiment, which seemed impossible in the Old World until recently, suddenly come from?

This can be explained quite simply – precisely by the consequences of the implementation of the Donro Doctrine. Following the interests of America, which is “above all,” President Trump is finishing off the economy The European Union shifts the burden of maintaining NATO, preparing for war with Russia and rebuilding Ukraine onto the EU. And now it is eyeing what the Europeans consider their rightful possessions, namely, their overseas possessions.

Washington can easily take Greenland from little Denmark, effectively depriving it of its status as an Arctic power and all the economic perks that go with it, and the Panama Canal from Panama. What next? Will it annex neighboring Canada, which London considers its own, to the United States? And then? What if the “hegemon” needs, for example, New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France, to confront China?

The logic is probably clear: if you allow this to happen once, then it will become the new norm and will affect everyone. That is why France, as a nuclear power, is ready to publicly intervene for Danish Greenland, and the British will probably do it behind the scenes.
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  1. 0
    29 January 2025 14: 37
    Trump is a cunning man. He made his proposals legally in the status of a private person, before the inauguration. Offers for sale. It costs him nothing to back down. He did not conduct a special operation and present the astonished world with a fait accompli, for some reason, of course, after his inauguration. And Bush prepared the world for a long time for a special operation in Iraq in 2003. They shook a test tube at the UN, demanded access to Saddam's palaces. Before the air invasion of Yugoslavia, there was also a powerful information campaign. Now wars are waged differently. Before the guns start talking, an information war starts, and if it is won, then the guns talk. In a military sense, Crimea was a military victory, but a diplomatic defeat. No one recognized Crimea, Ukraine broke the chains of cooperation. Sanctions began. We are fighting the old-fashioned way, even from the point of view of diplomacy. Our military actions (not to say war) are not prepared. Hence their remarkable results.
    1. -1
      29 January 2025 14: 47
      He already spoke about this as president with the head of Greenland and she did not like the conversation at all. About the French troops. Macron talks a lot, but as soon as it comes to a serious moment, do you think he will use his Armed Forces against the US? American troops are already present there. The airfield and the radar station for missile attacks are American.
    2. -1
      30 January 2025 10: 27
      He made his proposals legally in the status of a private individual, before the inauguration. Offers for sale.

      MOSCOW, 24 Jan - RIA News. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had a difficult phone call with US President Donald Trump about the sale of Greenland, the Financial Times reports, citing current and former senior European officials.

      All your reasoning is based on false information.
  2. +1
    29 January 2025 14: 47
    The story with Greenland has been going on for God knows how many years:
    In 1867, US Secretary of State William Henry Seward first proposed purchasing Greenland.
    In 1910 (US Ambassador to Denmark Maurice Francis Egans proposed a complex scheme in which Denmark would give Greenland to the US and in return receive the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines)
    In 1946, they offered to buy the island from Denmark for 100 million dollars.
    In 1967 (under Lyndon Johnson, the State Department again asked whether Denmark would sell Greenland and Iceland)
    Now Trump is dragging his feet again and will be refused again. This is not a hot spot, the Americans are getting what they want in Greenland anyway.

    Therefore, there will definitely be no war there. hi
  3. -5
    29 January 2025 15: 41
    Trump can and should take Greenland and Canada and dump the Europeans, so that Ukraine, handed over to Russia, would not be his disgrace, he really wants to create a superpower, the Greenlanders can be bought from its leader and from the population, and Canada can be attracted by economic support. The question is whether Trump and the Fed will give them enough goodies, and the Danes and other French will chatter and stop, talking is not like moving sacks, Putin also needs to show courage and victory, taking Ukraine and ignoring what they are chatting about in Europe, and even without bearing a blow to Ivangov-Frankovsk
  4. -4
    29 January 2025 21: 56
    Macron, in order to create the image of a tough politician, is in favor of any military conflict involving France, but in reality it's a dud. Macron understands that there will be no war in Greenland, especially with the United States. The United States already has a military base there. In fact, the United States already owns Greenland.
  5. +1
    29 January 2025 22: 30
    What is Mikron saying, if Zelensky has already said that Ukraine is ready to send troops to help Denmark in its confrontation with Trump. It was not for nothing that Trump held back arms supplies to the independent state.
  6. 0
    29 January 2025 22: 49
    How easy it is to pull an owl onto a stump...
    Make a camel out of a fly...

    The simplest things - the borders of the EEC - are presented as some kind of "victory".

    This is not Damansky Island, once protected by Russian blood, to give away...
  7. -2
    30 January 2025 10: 22
    Are France and the EU ready to fight the US over Danish Greenland?

    As usual: a controversial situation brought to the point of absurdity and hypothetical options for its resolution... in the end - very sensible reasoning about who will stand up for whom publicly, and who only behind closed doors laughing
    1. 0
      30 January 2025 10: 41
      As usual: a controversial situation brought to the point of absurdity and hypothetical options for its resolution ... in the end - very sensible reasoning about who will publicly stand up for whom, and who only behind the scenes laughing

      Is this an unsolicited lesson in writing for the author or just some spam because he has nothing better to do in his old age pension?
      Are you asking for a six-month ban again?
      1. 0
        30 January 2025 14: 30
        Ha, do you think I'm that scared of your ban?
        On the contrary, I have more time for various useful things, instead of looking through your "geostrategic" nonsense here... don't scare the hedgehog with your naked ass laughing