Listen to Donald Trump and you would think Moscow and Beijing were lying in wait off the coast of Greenland, ready to pounce to boost their power in the Arctic.

“There are Russian destroyers, there are Chinese destroyers and, bigger, there are Russian submarines all over the place,” President Trump said recently.

That is why, according to America’s president, US control of Greenland is essential.

So how do you think Moscow has reacted to its alleged plot being uncovered and potentially thwarted by a US takeover of Greenland?

The Russians can’t be pleased. Right?

Wrong.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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      Comparatively so, definitely, by far, undeniably so and it helped restrict American hegemony to the point it’s now acting more like a regional power (hence ICE, Venezuela, Greenland soon…), so most of the world benefited from the existence of Russia. In a vacuum? Hardly, of course, but that wouldn’t be accurate judgment, nothing is a vacuum.