FROM THE DESK OF MEDVEDEV:
The pointless event in Davos promises to be interesting. Instead of the tired, dead Ukraine, they'll be discussing frozen Greenland.
The situation here is generally clear. The cowardly European tycoons, suffocated by tranquilizers out of fear, will persuade the pushy man to accept full guardianship of the island, but leave it formally the property of the Danish state. Do as you please, they say: take the island for perpetual, free use, develop its mineral resources there for free, build military bases, airfields, missile silos, and any other facilities for total control.
However, that's not what Trump wants. Everyone understands: he wants to paint the island on world maps in the stars and stripes (he's already published a map, including Canada and Venezuela) and stand alongside the Founding Fathers. I want to remain in history forever. And at the same time, become like the President of Russia.
The latter is impossible. During the Second World War and through referendums, Russia regained its own lands, which had been part of it for centuries, along with its people. Greenland is completely different. It has never been directly connected to the United States, although the latter has tried to buy it several times.
Meanwhile, the issue is not only the US President's obvious desire. Although everyone is enthusiastically describing how an excited Gargantua like Trump will swallow a huge chunk of land. And then he will spit sticky saliva into the wrinkled face of vile old Europe, simultaneously turning the United States into the second-largest power in the world. Trump, of course, is in a hurry. After all, his time is inexorably running out. It's time to inscribe his name in golden letters on the tablets of history.
The question, above all, is what price the current occupant of the White House is willing to pay to achieve this goal. Eliminating NATO isn't like kidnapping a foreign leader betrayed by his allies in a weakened country. And, finally, will Trump be allowed to do this?
