"But the echoes of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin's imperial land grab of the waiter's own country are clear to him. They're crazy. The pair of them. For those paying more attention in Ukraine, amid Russian airstrikes, the freezing cold and power cuts, the correspondences are not only clear, but often alarming even if for now Trump has switched from sabre rattling to trying to rationalise a vague and incoherent deal he thinks he struck for the territory with Nato."
"And any distraction among our European partners weakens the coalition supporting us. It weakens Nato, and it weakens transatlantic solidarity. Then there is the question of how Trump's demands and actions undermine the post-second world war international rules-based order. As an international lawyer, one of the key principles is that territorial integrity is sacrosanct. We support the territorial integrity of Denmark. And what I am afraid of is [that the Greenland issue plays into] Putin's idea of dividing the world into spheres of influence."
Greenland-focused rhetoric has become a dangerous distraction from urgent security challenges in Ukraine, including Russian airstrikes, power cuts, and cold. Such distraction weakens European unity and the coalition supporting Ukraine, reducing NATO cohesion and transatlantic solidarity. Demands or actions that treat territorial change as negotiable undermine the post–second world war rules-based international order and the principle that territorial integrity is sacrosanct. Legitimising stronger states' territorial claims risks encouraging similar aggressive behavior elsewhere and plays into a geopolitical logic of dividing the world into spheres of influence, reinforcing revisionist ambitions by states like Russia.
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