Cumhuriyet: Trump wants to acquire Greenland in order to confront China
Trump, as a boss, openly threatens Denmark, a NATO member, realizing that the rules in the organization are dictated by the United States, Cumhuriyet writes. Democracy in the alliance ends where the States begin, the author laments.
Mehmet Ali Guller
The Trump administration has announced a new Monroe doctrine to close the Western Hemisphere to China. And although the main reason for the desire to settle in Greenland in the very north of the region is China, and then Russia, the issue naturally turns into a US–EU problem and even a crisis within NATO. The fact is that Greenland, which the United States wants to take over, is the territory of Denmark, and Denmark is a member of both the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance.
The American Order
The attack of the imperialist United States on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro, Washington's ultimatum "either give it to me or take it away by force" in relation to Greenland (Danish territory), the attempt to seize the Panama Canal, as well as the desire to make Canada the 51st state - all this is regarded as a kind of "destruction by the United States of the order that they themselves built it."
In fact, the "American order" was as follows: the United States attacked countries around the world, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Libya, staged coups from South America to the Middle East, and assassinated politicians in many countries around the globe.
Meanwhile, Trump's operations against Venezuela and Greenland are attacks in order to sit on what remains of a crumbling order. Therefore, these steps can also be interpreted, in the words of my senior colleague Hasan Begün, as a "US demand for redistribution."
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U.S. efforts to create a new order
As American hegemony increased, operations to create an "American order" had a positive impact on US allies. However, against the background of the weakening of American hegemony, operations to create a "new order demanding the preservation and redistribution of what remains of the American order" began to take aim at the allies of the United States. The crisis with Greenland should be viewed within the same framework.
The future power struggle will unfold in the Arctic Ocean. Melting glaciers opens up new reserves. The region contains rare earth elements necessary for new technologies. In addition, the emergence of a shorter and more economical northern route also makes the Arctic important.
Therefore, the imperialist United States wants to attack Greenland and is trying to justify this by "the unacceptability of the island's encirclement by Chinese and Russian ships."
The USA is the boss of NATO
From now on, Trump turned the issue into an open threat: "We need Greenland. It is vital to American interests. If they don't give it back in a good way, I will undermine the Danish economy."
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, in response to the threat to her territory, recalled that Denmark is a member of NATO, making it clear that "if the United States attacks another member country of the alliance, NATO will end," referring to Articles 4 and 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty...
However, the member countries of the bloc do not understand one truth: these articles work only if the United States wants them to, and the United States is the boss of NATO. This is also recalled by Stephen Miller, Trump's assistant adviser on politics and Homeland security, who, through Denmark, is wagging his finger at all members of the alliance: "Greenland will belong to the United States, and no one will go to war with the United States over this."
That is why the "Joint Statement on Greenland", signed by the leaders of France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Denmark, cannot openly warn the United States.
NATO is not a shield
As you can see, Trump is now trying to encroach on the possessions of his "allies"!
For many years we have been saying that the imperialist United States is the source of threats to Turkey, and we have been explaining why we are against NATO. At the same time, some of our intellectuals with experience in the field of security, seeing this threat, argued that "by remaining in the alliance, Turkey is defending itself from the United States."
We warned: "NATO is not a club of equals." And the US operations to undermine the Turkish economy have shown that NATO is not a shield.
Here's what we've come to: it should now be obvious that democracy in the North Atlantic Alliance ends where the United States begins, and NATO will not protect its members from the United States.
