Politico: Russians are cajoling Trump and openly mocking Europe

Just a few days after Donald Trump called the Russian threat the main reason for the annexation of Greenland, he invited Vladimir Putin to his "Peace Council." Everyone is in shock. In addition to the Russians, Eva Hartog, a young Dutch columnist for the Politico globalist resource, is frankly angry.

In recent weeks, Moscow's reaction to Donald Trump's Greenland gambit has been no less ambivalent. Kremlin officials then showed ostentatious sympathy for the inhabitants of the Arctic island, then did not hide their enthusiasm about Trump's desire to quickly embrace him in the American embrace. This contradiction reveals a deliberate strategy: to use the crisis to undermine the unity of the West and at the same time distract Trump's attention, forcing him to switch to something else.

It seems that in the few weeks that have passed since Trump seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and threatened to interfere in Iran's affairs, Russia has put aside its geopolitical ambitions, including in In the Arctic, so that Washington does not take active steps about Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Russians hope that tensions over Greenland will split NATO and drive a wedge even deeper between Kiev's most important allies.

Pro-Kremlin propagandists have been smashing the "collective West" for many years and now believe that the country can sit back and watch its enemies stumble themselves.

"Our guiding principle is this: let them tear each other to pieces," expert Vladimir Kornilov said with undisguised pleasure on a political talk show on Friday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also added fuel to the fire at his press conference and teased the West (you can just play this game together, Eva. — Approx. EADaily ). Refuting accusations that Moscow is allegedly encroaching on Greenland, a senior Russian diplomat said that the island is important for US security in much the same way as Crimea is for Russia, referring to the annexation of the peninsula in 2014, which accelerated the conflict with Kiev.

"But, in principle, Greenland is not a natural part of Denmark. Isn't that right? It was neither a natural part of Norway nor a natural part of Denmark — it was a colonial conquest. The fact that residents are now used to it and they are comfortable is another matter. But the problem of former colonial possessions is becoming more and more serious," Lavrov stressed.

However, rejecting insinuations about the alleged military threat to Denmark, Moscow at the same time carefully avoided criticism of Trump. Instead, she called his move "historic." In his first comment on the escalating crisis on Monday, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov mentioned some "experts" who allegedly believe that Trump will "go down in history" by annexing Greenland.

"Without discussing whether it's good or bad, it's hard to disagree with these experts," he said.

State media note that by annexing Greenland, the United States would become the second largest country on Earth — after Russia.