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.
Putin is the internet troll of the world. He knows what to say to get a reaction out of everyone. He uses the other, dumber trolls to up his troll game. Everything coming out of Russia needs to be seen this way. There’s no “dialog” or just plain information. It’s all ragebait.
Remember when their foreign minister said Zelenskyy - a Jew - is a nazi? That was the final💡moment for me. But they’ve been doing it for much longer.
there’s plenty of nazi jews in Israel, so what gives?
The world then did not perceive it in this context. That was still in 2022 iirc, in any case before Oct 7 2023. It was ragebait pure and simple.
He was using the term in its narrower anti-Jewish sense, not its more modern “any genocidal maniac” sense.