Afrasianet - The following is the verbatim text of US President Donald Trump's letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Garstorre, which he also requested to be circulated to a number of European ambassadors in Washington:
"Dear Jonas, given that your country has decided not to award me the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping 8 wars or more, I no longer feel obligated to think about peace specifically, although it will remain at the forefront, but I can now think of what is best and appropriate for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia and China, and why do they have the "right of property" anyway?
There are no written documents, it's just a boat moored there hundreds of years ago, but we have boats that have docked there as well. I have done more for NATO than anyone since its founding, and NATO must do something for the United States now. The world is only safe with full and complete control of Greenland. Thank you, President DJT."
Aside from the sluggishness of grammar in the English original, which Anne Applebaum wrote about in detail in The Atlantic, the letter promotes the first lie that Trump has stopped "8 wars and more," and that one hardly finds a quarter of that number of wars; and the falsification of history into a second lie that ignores that the island has always been Danish, and its inhabitants hold Danish citizenship and vote on that basis, and there are many "written documents" in this regard, including an American that asserts sovereignty Danish on the island.
The third lie is that Trump, in his second term in particular, has brought nothing but pressure, overt violence, and increased spending on European budgets, even though the alliance is already a creation of Washington, and serves American interests more than any other service it provides to the security of the European continent.
Other observers, more attentive to the geopolitical and ideological dimensions of Trump's message, went to its implications at the levels of the remaining cohesion of the American/European capitalist system, and then the transcontinental world in digression, in light of this model of The tendencies of global hegemony, which not only divide and harness them to meet the interests of the United States exclusively, but also perpetuate a kind of supreme imperialism above the current agreed imperialism.
Whatever measures Trump intends to take regarding U.S. control of Greenland, and even if his threats to invade the island militarily subside and he is content with verbal threats and the discourse of appropriation by force, the "doctrine" of hegemony over yesterday's allies, specifically within NATO and then outside NATO, will not stop at rhetorical damage.
The letter echoes, if not reaffirming, nearly 400 words Trump wrote as a presentation of the "National Security Strategy for the United States," which the White House released late in 2025, which reads: "This document is a roadmap to ensure that the United States remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history, and the home of freedom on earth.
In the coming years, we will continue to develop every dimension of our national power and make America safer, richer, freer, greater, and more powerful than ever before." The letter also recalls the content of chapter four of that strategy, especially the division of the world into five spheres of influence, new in its diagnosis of folding the old common concept of a "West" made up of the old continent Europe + the United States, and replacing it, explicitly and unequivocally, with the formula of the "Western Hemisphere" composed of North + South America, in an update The famous "Monroe Doctrine" dating back to 1823! The most serious blow to Europe and NATO is that this new American strategic substitution prohibits European allies from interfering in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere, the scope of Washington's hegemony, but allows the United States to extend its control over a European island like Greenland, for reasons that are not only flimsy but also fabricated and false.
It is a paradox of fate, and perhaps the cunning of the lessons of history if positions fluctuate and roles change, that the head of the greatest cosmic power / leader of the cosmic capitalist system is also the bearer of the shovels of destruction and dismantling; Keeping the United States safe, and making it great again, as the famous Trump slogan says. In another insightful formulation, it is "the ugly ideology on which the fundamentalism of the market economy is based," according to the prominent Asian economist Henry Liu, who not only talks about "super-capitalist" and "super-imperialist" economic systems that compete fiercely before they wrestle fiercely, but also observes the decline of these same regimes into a giant "financial imperialism", militarizing tools and racist ideologies, which is eating itself away in the midst of its rush to devour others.
To the memory of Francis Fukuyama only, for reasons not only related to the story of the end of history at the capitalist moment, but... History erupted again, in the same capitalist moment, on the shores of Greenland now, in the speeches of the Davos Forum (the verbal exchange between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, for example), and in the corridors of the European Union. If it is true that the regimes of the socialist camp collapsed even before the communist stage, then the capitalist regimes do not seem to have triumphed, or even won a decisive round, in the battle of contemporary history.
Its regimes, on the whole, have taken the form of blind garages and greedy speculators inside the market, or military gas and plunderers abroad; and their sacred pillar of non-interference by the central state has not only been undermined by its makers, but has become a joke.
Among the consequences of Trump's hammers, which also affect human environments and the health of the planet, is what the alarming numbers say: America poisons the environment three times more than any other European, 30 times more than Mexico, and 50 times more than any citizen of the Global South.
The same figures said that the United States' contribution to global environmental development did not exceed 0.1 percent of GDP, in contrast to former President George W. Bush's pledge that the United States would commit to a rate of 0.7, which was set at the 1992 Rio Conference. In the summer of 2017, Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, because he rejects anything that could stand in the way of "reviving the American economy," and because it is time to give the United States "priority over everyone."
It is as if history, with Trump's hammers here and there in the winds of the same capitalist system, reaffirms the truth of the Marxist prophecy of a capitalist who will inevitably create his own gravedigger.
With his hands and not with the hands of his opponents, or proving, once again and without interruption, that the policies of invasion, domination, and militarization are ignited first of all only by fueling the economy and... For example, the precious minerals and riches that Greenland stores in its interior.
