"...we are not simply a strong midterm-showing away from fixing this." This is the most important thing both Americans and the rest of the world have to realise asap if they haven't already.

The Owned Continent is now the number 1 new release for books on European politics in the United States. www.amazon.com/gp/new-relea... I'm honoured but also I'm disappointed with the low sales in France so far. This book was meant for Europeans, not Americans! Great sales in Germany though.

Contournement de sanctions avec la Russie : Allemagne…

www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bdo... Here a Danish historian of all things, also using those words " I simply cannot imagine" in relation to the US threats to Greenland. One of our many mental problems is exactly this lack of imagination on how bad it can go.

This is the problem in a nutshell. Europe has plenty of fighter jets, mostly Americans... But we don't have ammo or ammo production for these jets. Precious little European made aircraft ammunition fits American aircrafts. The meteor missile doesn't fit the f16 or f35 for example.

I spoke to the @csmonitor.bsky.social newspaper about what Europe can do to deter an American invasion of Greenland. Specifically, will other European countries will now be willing to take up the French idea from a year ago to station a pan-European force there as a deterrent?

Is the US neglecting Greenland & Arctic security? "Current and former Danish officials say that Copenhagen has regularly offered the US the chance to establish more bases on the island — whether air or naval — but has been met with a tepid response." www.ft.com/content/2f06...

I see news reports talking about Europe's dependence on America for its security as an unavoidable fact of life. It isn't. It's the result of choices made by Atlanticist leaders on this continent for decades, and Europeans who kept voting for them.

Quite a few French territories in what the US labels the "Western Hemisphere". If the US takes Greenland, would these territories not also be in the risk category?

youtu.be/mOKbQnTSla4?... Once again, when you put hard against hard with the Russians, they back down. Incredible that we haven't learned that in Europe. We keep deterring ourselves and show extreme weakness. We need new leaders in Europe.

youtube.com/watch?v=8qTP... "i cant imagine...". Again this problem, the complete failure to imagine the new reality we live in.and of cause, then no need to prepare anything

Who had noticed?

If Trump invades Greenland,NATO is officially dead (maybe;never underestimate the European politicians ability to stick their head in the sand and pretend reality doesn't exist).But what is the actual downside to Trump of this?He doesn't want to be in NATO;He want to work with Russia,not EU. Now,

I don't understand why we believe there will be democratic elections in the US again under Trump.He literally tried to instigate a coup after he lost the last election.Why would anyone believe that he somehow,in the 4 years since then, suddenly became a believer in democracy? Why?

Our leaders in Europe are in complete denial of reality. They are living in another world.

www.instagram.com/reel/DTLpC7e... This would probably work, would be real deterrence... And there is 0 % chance that our spineless European politicians will do anything remotely like this.

Meaningful deterrent doesn't have to be military. It could be selling off US state bonds or insisting on dealing only in euros, not dollars. @oleryborg.bsky.social has written a nice article on options and why they aren't happening, in Danish unfortunately. www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

Re-upping my piece on security guarantees & 🇺🇦: Unless Europe has an honest conversation about the real costs of deterring Russia—possible casualties, permanent deployments, & restructured NATO plans—a “coalition of the willing” risks being an uncredible deterrent. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/10/e...

Two hard realities persist: The US won't risk war with Russia over Ukraine, and Europeans won't act without the US. This makes any security guarantee fundamentally less credible, regardless of Paris talk details.

🇺🇸 “They campaigned on isolationism. What they're giving us is unprecedented American imperialism.” @davekeating.substack.com tells #F24Debate how Trump’s interest in #Greenland breaks from his campaign promises.

True European solidarity with Greenland and Denmark would mean a joint military presence, not just letters of support. The U.S. would still win if push came to shove, but the whole idea would be far more unpalatable to the American public. It will never happen, of course. But one can dream.

www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/s/... If we want to deter the US from attacking Greenland,we need clear speak like from this French general. We need to commit to deterrence BEFORE the invasion... Otherwise it will be too late.

4/ In reality, Europe has many levers, financial, economic, and security related. Last but not least, it has military forces that could be deployed to Greenland. The purpose would not be to win a war, but to make a Crimean style annexation impossible

The EU is not the correct framework for this. You need to start around Denmark and France, who understand that the US is not their friend, and build up from that. Countries like Germany, Poland and the UK still think Pax Americana can be salvaged. They host large US bases. Short term threat.

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Maybe the greatest example of the bizarro world in which we now live is that European states are maintaining the dangerous fiction that the US would fight for them, when the more likely use of US military force would be to kick Europe out of Greenland.

They've made clear their profound hostility to Europe and European values. They've aligned with Russia over Ukraine and on the issue of NATO expansion. And now this - Miller, probably the single most consequential figure in the current administration, escalating on Greenland.

It's not that NATO will collapse if the US invades Greenland; NATO is already dead. The Trump admin could not have been clearer about that over the last year. They refer to NATO as if they're not part of it. They've been threatening at least 1 NATO ally since they took office.

youtu.be/nzAcmc77js8?... "Greenland will, in principle, be defended by NATO". But, in practice, it will not. If he was serious about this, he would have left out the "in principle" qualifier.

"International law died yesterday. And Europe helped kill it." I think @davekeating.substack.com is essential reading these days: "#vonderleyen completely ignored the fact that international law and the UN Charter had already, undeniably, been violated." davekeating.substack.com/p/internatio...

Honestly, what would the EU and NATO countries do if the US just took over Greenland? Lets say, not outright annexation, but landing military in all major towns, taking over law enforcement and expelling danish military. Then claiming that they are just protecting Greenland from Russia/China because

I'm not one to cite Thucydides all the time, but the saying "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" bears repeating these days. Europe's decisionmakers should take note.

4/So what is going on? @segoddard.bsky.social and I argue the confusion is people using old models of global politics. This is not balancing or spheres of influence. It is international politics based on elite cliques rather than national interest i.e. neo-royalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It is not enough to simply say "I stand with the Danish PM". What are European leaders willing to do to defend the Kingdom of Denmark from America? 1st question: will they finally agree to the French plan to station European troops in #Greenland now?

“In the past years,Cyprus got very close to the US, forming lots of defence relationships with them. That is going to cause tension if we're trying to create an EU that's independent of the US.We have Cyprus leading the EU presidency, and the US is building bases here. This is going to be a tension”

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

Whenever Trump does something crazy, people try to rationalize it. Now, they're saying it was Venezuela's "heavy, sour crude" that made him kidnap Maduro. I think the truth is much scarier and less strategic: He simply enjoys the feeling of power and humiliating his opponents.

Not only have our European leaders refused to condemn Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela and his plan to run it and take its oil, several (including Starmer, Macron & Meloni) seemed to give the invasion their stamp of approval. A shameful day for Europe.

In some ways, it seems the question we Europeans should be asking ourselves is: do we want to have a "sphere of influence" or do we wanna be someones "sphere of influence".

From the wife of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Europe, don't say you weren't warned.

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

A reminder: it doesn't have to be this way. Mexico has a hell of a lot more to lose than Europe by angering Trump. Yet this is the response of its president just now. This isn't a global phenomenon. Why have Europeans proven to be so uniquely cowardly over the past year?

European politicians need to wake up. They can't both proclaim international law and also not condemn aggression against Venezuela as contrary to international law. Or, maybe time has come to abandon the idea of international law, take the consequences of this and build an actual European

Selv om Nicolás Maduro er en blodig diktator, er det her et brud på de internationale love og regler. Trump mener tydeligvis, at han må gøre, hvad han vil i hele den vestlige halvkugle. Og det lover altså ikke godt for Grønland.

Today it is #Venezuela. Tomorrow it may be #Greenland. Based on the behaviour of our current European leaders today and throughout 2025, there is no reason to assume they would do anything other than immediately surrender and accept the annexation.

Updated "Wall of Shame:" EU countries have been sending a flood of goods to Russia via Kyrgyzstan for 4 years now. And the EU wonders why it's always fighting for a seat at the table on Ukraine. You want to be treated like an adult, start acting like one... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-eu-wal...

Remarkable interpretation of US law.

The ‘rules‑based international order’ was underwritten—again, with exceptions—by American military restraint and structured power. That era is over. If Europeans want to preserve it, military power is like a dinner jacket: when it’s required, nothing else will do.