Trump still plots to roll the Inuit and steal Greenland while "weaponize economy against' a European nation

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Kevin Warsh, Trump's choice for Fed Chair, is the son-in-law of Ronald Lauder, a Trump billionaire donor and the founder of Estée Lauder, who first floated the idea of buying Greenland in 2019. In yet another twist in this sordid affair, Warsh is also implicated in the recently released Epstein files.

Recently, Raw Story reporter Ewan Gleadow reported that an insider appears to have backed off on his threat to Greenland and Denmark, but it is anything but that the source in the administration.

“He still wants it,” the insider told Asawin Suebsaeng, who reported there is a plan in place to take Greenland into American control by 2029.

Writing in First Draft, Suebsaeng claimed, "But the damage has already been done – and the threat has not actually gone away. It, like Trump at a meeting, is only napping.

"Additionally, one Trump administration official relays that the president is willing to negotiate, but that Trump has recently expressed some wariness that the Europeans are trying to placate him with the military-base status quo that the Americans already enjoy on the territory.

"Other Trump advisers tell me that, when it comes to Greenland, the president is willing to take his foot off the MAGA-imperialism gas for now, but that little has changed with Trump’s desire.l

Ewan Gleadow in a Raw Story post today reports that 'Trump’s next target’ is to weaponize the economy against Norway and is already in place.

Ewan reports that The Hill columnist Jose Chalhoub believes the president is no longer focused on a “European nation which could offer oil reserves like Venezuela.”

Chalhoub wrote, "In Venezuela, enforcement actions continued, even as headlines faded, disrupting supply to Asia and exposing billions in Chinese investments. Cuba, heavily dependent on those flows, was warned that oil would move only on Washington’s terms. The region became a testing ground for how much pressure energy leverage can exert before governments cave.

"The Americas, then, are a rehearsal. The real audience is Europe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine abruptly ended decades of European dependence on its energy.

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"Trump’s tariffs demonstrated how readily economic ties can be weaponized. As tensions with Denmark and Greenland escalated, Europeans faced a sobering question: If energy becomes leverage, will Trump take a page from Putin’s playbook?

"Europe’s vulnerability is structural. Energy is purchased nationally, not collectively. Pressure applied to a few can fracture solidarity among many. Matching coercion with coercion would invite escalation and play to Washington’s strengths.

Meanwhile, Greenlanders are well aware that Trump is not sleeping after backing down when NATO troops arrived to push back against Trump’s military threat against the Inuit.

In Greenland, ominous but not surprising news: the ice cap has shattered temperature records once again. The island is melting, and some believe it has crossed the tipping point.

NUUK, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Greenland, the Arctic island coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump, experienced its warmest January on record this year, as a rate of warming four times faster than the global average redraws the outlook for sectors from fishing to mining.

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Preliminary temperature readings from the Danish Meteorological Institute in the Greenlandic capital Nuuk averaged +0.2 degrees Celsius (32.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in January, the highest on record and well above the historical average of -7.7 degrees between 1991 and 2020.

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“The waters around Greenland are also warming up, and that can change the ecosystem and the fishery business. It will most likely have an impact,” said Hoyer, adding it was too early to tell exactly how.

While Trump has chiefly highlighted security concerns, Greenland also holds strategic mineral resources that could play a part in the power struggle for the island. A Danish survey published in 2023 showed 25 of the 34 minerals deemed “critical raw materials” by the European Commission were found there.

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