Russian officials welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland, with Kremlin economic negotiator Kirill Dmitriev claiming on Jan. 17 that the move signals the “collapse” of the transatlantic alliance.
Trump earlier said that Washington would impose 10% tariffs on NATO allies — France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the U.K., the Netherlands, and Finland — until the U.S. reaches a deal to buy Greenland. He has threatened to acquire the island “one way or the other.”
“The transatlantic alliance is over,” Dmitriev wrote on X, mocking European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and urging European leaders not to “provoke” Trump.
Greenland is the ad hoc reasoning to pull out of nato.
He does not have the support to pull out directly, so an imperial expansion is supposed to bring enough institutionalists along.
If I had to guess, his recent floating of 50 pc increase in military budget to 1.5 trillion was to keep arms contracters on board as nato blowing up would lose them a lot of business.