Europe must now tell Trump that enough is enough and cut all ties with the US | Alexander Hurst

"What about Europe, though? As Danish and Greenlandic ministers prepared to face JD Vance in the White House, the question was would Europe finally choose between Europe and the US? Will its leaders have the courage to tell the full truth that the US isn't simply abandoning its allies and destroying the international order but is now in the position of active and hostile predation by force and more importantly, to act on it?"

"To offer Denmark moral and material backing, and Greenland a future of self-determination and membership, rather than subservience to US resource plunder? Donald Trump has already set the tone by saying the US will seize Greenland one way or the other, and no part of the triumvirate around him is trying to hide their imperial intentions any more. Not the nepotists and grifters amassing ever greater private fortunes."

"Not the white supremacist ideologues drawing inspiration from Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer! to post One Homeland. One People. One Heritage, via official US government social media accounts. Not the techno-nihilists salivating to mine every bit of Greenland's mineral resources and rule their own neofeudal city states on its coast. When Trump says that the only constraint on his exercise of power is my own morality, that means there is no constraint."

European leaders face a choice between aligning with the United States or defending European interests as US pressure targets Greenland. Danish and Greenlandic ministers met US envoys amid explicit threats of US seizure and aggressive resource extraction. Proposals urge Denmark to receive moral and material backing while Greenland should gain a path to self-determination and membership instead of subservience to external plunder. The current US coalition includes nepotists, white supremacists, and techno-nihilists who seek mineral exploitation and new forms of private power. Assertions that personal morality limits action signal a readiness for unchecked grabs. Viral maps revive Technate-style expansionist blueprints.

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