During the Vietnam War, US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger concocted the “Madman Theory.” The idea was to force the North Vietnamese and the Soviet Union to negotiate with Washington by making them think that then President Richard Nixon was so crazy that working things out was a better alternative than not doing so. Hanoi didn’t buy it. But maybe the EU establishment would, in 2026?

Well, they believe there’s a madman in the White House, alright. But the outcome is, once again, probably not entirely what Washington had in mind.

“Let no one be mistaken in thinking that the true intention of the US was simply to confront a geopolitical threat,” French President Emmanuel Macron told El País in a new interview, addressing Trump’s recent threats to take Greenland by force for “national security” reasons. ”It was not the Russians or the Chinese who posed the threat. I can tell you that we have compiled an intelligence tally of the number of Russian and Chinese ships and submarines that were around Greenland and whose presence we detected: it is negligible.”

Seems that Donald Trump has managed to do the impossible and make EU leaders switch out their Russian invasion fantasies for American ones. And wouldn’t you know it, that actually works out better for them, because they’ve spent years trying – and failing – to convince Europeans that Putin is going to kick down the door to the EU sometime around 2030. This looming, abstract invasion fantasy that’s always just far enough away to hope that people will have forgotten all about........

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