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On the polished stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Donald Trump delivered what was nominally a policy address but functioned more like a geopolitical warning shot. The speech blurred the line between diplomacy and provocation, recasting alliances, territory, and power as personal tests of loyalty. Greenland, a vast and sparsely populated Arctic landmass, became the centerpiece—not as geography, but as leverage.
Trump spoke of Greenland not in the language of treaties or international law, but as a symbol of whether America’s allies still understood who, in his view, carried the real weight of global security. What might once have been framed as strategic interest was instead presented as a reckoning. Cooperation, he implied, was owed. Resistance would be remembered.
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