Trump’s Greenland Distraction: A Kremlin-Style Wedge That Pays in Ukraine (opens in new tab)

The Greenland narrative doesn’t feel random, and that’s the part that keeps bothering me. It has a shape, a timing, and a set of effects that are all too familiar if you’ve spent years watching how Russia destabilizes alliances without firing a shot. The talk of “buying” Greenland isn’t framed as diplomacy, or even as strategic negotiation, but as coercion aimed directly at allies, wrapped in threats of tariffs and economic punishment. That alone is the tell. This isn’t pressure on adversarie...