Thread by @FDehyd

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„What @realDonaldTrump is directly threatening in his letter, and has been threatening for some time now, is a willingness to break with Europe over the desire to play conquest over a territory the U.S. already had broad access to,

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under the guise of international security concerns that are undermined by virtually every other action taken by his administration.

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– »It’s bullshit, multi-layered bullshit« – @NGrossman81, [1] [2] [3] political science professor at the University of Illinois and editor of the Arc Digital newsletter, tells Rolling Stone.

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– »Russia and China — especially China — are not threatening Greenland« – he adds. – »The thing that has successfully protected Greenland, including U.S. interests there, for now about 80 years, has been the @NATO alliance.

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[…] Greenland was secure. U.S. interests there were secure. And the only thing that is actually threatening that is Donald Trump, not another country [4]«.

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Grossman explains that »breaking up NATO has been Russia’s top foreign policy goal for many years, and something that has been a personal goal of Pootin’s«. Trump’s attack on the alliance from within »goes decently beyond anything that Russia could do to @NATO by itself«.”

@NATO 7).
Jan. 19, 2026

Endnotes:

[1] @IllinoisPolsci pol.illinois.edu/directory/prof…

[2] @NRO nationalreview.com/author/nichola…

[3] @ArcDigi arcdigital.media/s/nicholasgros…

[4] @ArcDigi arcdigital.media/p/with-greenla…

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