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Why Greenland? The Secret Motives of Trump’s Obsession 🔠🅰️🔠🔠1️⃣ Trump’s echoing of Russia’s talking points in its war against Ukraine has long been a cause for alarm and dismay in the west. Now an even more disturbing Kremlin precedent dating from the cold war is being evoked by the US president’s fixation on taking over Greenland – that of carrying out attacks on military allies. The Soviet Union invaded its allied communist partners twice as it engaged in a long ideological and military standoff with the capitalist west, and openly asserted the right to intervene in the affairs of other allies if they deviated from policies dictated by Moscow. Trump’s repeated assertion that the US “needs” Greenland for national security purposes and his refusal to rule out acquiring it by military force has set Washington on a collision course with Denmark, a Nato ally that has sovereignty over the autonomous, self-governing territory. Trump has said “it may be a choice” between taking control of Greenland and keeping Nato intact. If Trump pressed ahead, he would – perhaps unconsciously – be treading a similar path to that followed by the Soviet Union, which invaded communist-run European allied countries in the Warsaw Pact, the Moscow-dominated eastern bloc’s cold-war equivalent of Nato. Soviet troops invaded Hungary in 1956 to suppress a popular uprising that threatened to topple Budapest’s communist regime, with up to 3,000 people killed in bloody street fighting. In 1968, Moscow staged an invasion – this time including forces from other Warsaw Pact nations – of Czechoslovakia to squash the liberalising Prague Spring, which was led by the country’s communist leader, Alexander Dubcek, who ushered in new freedoms intended to create “socialism with a human face”. In contrast with Trump’s mooted Greenland incursion, the Soviet actions were not mounted in wanton disregard for their impact on the Warsaw Pact but in order to save it. #greenland#trump#warsaw#pact#france#war 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸