This piece is a corollary to “Not if, but When”, published on January 20, 2026, wherein it was opined that ‘POTUS Trump’s foreign policy has put global geopolitics in a tailspin, which not only confirmed the existence of strong ideological foundations but also purely opportunistic and self-generated, if not helter-skelter, tendencies. It was vindicated only 24 hours later when Mr Trump made a marathon speech at the Davos Economic Forum on Wednesday, January 21, where global leadership, including the EU and NATO allies, heard him with amazement and bruised egos, most of them being former colonial empires and well-developed, proud European nations.

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Trump devoted a significant portion of his speech to Greenland. After a lengthy critique of Denmark, which he claimed was too weak to protect Greenland, Trump repeated his key position on the territory. “We need it for strategic national security and international security. This enormous, unsecured island is actually part of North America. That’s our territory,” he said. Trump further asserted, “I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force. This would greatly enhance the security of the entire NATO alliance. We want strong allies, not seriously weakened ones.” At the same time, he framed US control of Greenland as essential to global security, and therefore essential for European leaders to turn the self-governing island over to US control. “I’m seeking........

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