The president-elect of the United States held perhaps his most important conference in recent years. Trump openly displayed the policies and intentions in this new four-year term: His presidency will be focused not only on trade war, mainly with China, but also on territorial aspirations to the detriment of allied countries.
Trump has openly threatened Panama for the Canal and Denmark for Greenland with the use of military force if the United States meets resistance to pass to American control. Asked NATO member countries to increase defense spending from 2 percent to 5 percent of Gross Domestic Product, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico.
Also, Trump threatened real hell in the Middle East if Hamas does not release Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip by the time he is sworn in as president. He has not taken his eyes off neighboring Canada even for a moment, and has already begun to consider it as the 51st state of the USA. But where will the seismic waves of these decisions that are stirring the world stop?
Reporter: Regarding Greenland and the Panama Canal, can you guarantee the world that you will not use economic or military coercion when trying to take control of them?
Donald Trump: No.
Reporter: Can you tell us your plan? Will you negotiate a new treaty? Are you going to ask Canadians to hold a vote? What is your strategy?
Donald Trump: I can guarantee you that we are talking about Panama and Greenland. I can't confirm anything about any of them, but I can tell you that we need them for economic security. The Panama Canal was built by our military.”
Javier Martinez, Panama's Foreign Minister: "The sovereignty of our Canal is non-negotiable and is part of our arduous history and an irreversible achievement. Our Canal has the mission to serve humanity and commerce. This is one of the values that the people of Panama offer to the world."
Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark: I want to make it very clear that in the eyes of the Danish government, Greenland belongs only to the people of Greenland. They are truly a proud people with a language and culture of their own. As the head of the government there has said before, Greenland is not for sale.
David Sanger, Security Analyst, CNN: In his first term, we learned of his desire to buy Greenland, which is not entirely crazy. Harry Tryman had the same idea in 1940, but the seller was not interested in selling the land. In recent weeks, we have seen numerous messages related to the Panama Canal or Greenland, and what started as a joke about Canada has now turned into something serious. It has gradually become clear to us that in the second term, he wants to use the instrument of American power to force this territorial expansion. Whether it will succeed, we do not know, as it is too complicated. Denmark is a NATO ally. Imagine for a moment if we used military force to force Denmark to give up something. The rest of NATO would be forced by Article 5 of NATO to align with Denmark against the United States. So this would get complicated very quickly.
Aaja Chemnitz, Member of Parliament from Greenland, Danish Parliament: I think in many ways it's not a question of whether we should be American or Danish, but it's a question of whether we should cooperate a little more with the United States. We must not be bought by anyone as Greenland is not for sale and never will be. But we can have a closer cooperation in the development of business with the USA".
Donald Trump, US President-elect: We need Greenland for national security purposes. I've been told for a long time, even before I ran for president. We have about 45 thousand people living there. People really don't know if Denmark has any legal rights to it. But if they have, they should give it up, as we need it for national security. This is for the free world, I'm talking about protecting the free world. You won't need binoculars to see, as there are China ships all over the country out there. Also Russian ships. I don't know if Denmark wants us to come to a conclusion, or if it has any right, ownership or interest, but the people will most likely vote for independence or join the US.”
In the case of Canada, it was reluctant to confirm the threat of using the military to force it to become the 51st US state. But Donald Trump continues with his accounts by erasing the border line, which he considered unnecessary and completely artificial, as he published the map with Great America. To force that country into union, the president-elect announced that he would use economic pressure with very high tariffs. This offensive by Trump to expand the territory, finds Canada politically weakened with a serious crisis at home after the announcement of the withdrawal of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. However, politicians there have signaled that they will continue the resistance to being a sovereign state. The question that naturally arises is what is behind this attempt
Trump, the Russian threat? Expanding economic influence? Or the desire to write his name in American history?
Reporter: Are you considering military force to annex or purchase Canada?
Donald Trump: No. But I will use the economic force, because Canada and the United States would really be something significant. We'd get rid of that artificial boundary line and just see what it would look like. It would be good for national security. We are supporting that country with over 200 billion dollars a year. We have placed our army at their disposal. Therefore it must be a state of ours. This is what I told Trudeau when he came to see me. I said: what would happen if we didn't do these things for you? He told me that Canada would fall apart."
Doug Ford | Mayor of Ontario, Canada: I appreciate his sense of humor and I almost thought we'd buy Alaska, but it's just not realistic. We are a sovereign country, we are proud and we Canadians, like Americans, are very proud of our country. What I want to do is to make sure that we build a fortress and ensure that we are the most powerful, the richest and the two most prosperous countries in the world. We have a lot to offer the US as we have in recent years, whether it's precious minerals or energy. We want to make sure we are strong together. We received two requests to strengthen the border, which I agree with 100 percent, but we are doing this. We are also fulfilling the commitment of 2 percent in NATO. Canada conducts $1.3 trillion worth of trade with the United States. We are the biggest trading partner for them. We burn 4.3 million barrels of oil per day and electricity, as well as precious minerals. We have many areas and sectors, with which we meet American needs, and why should we harm them?"
Donald Trump is not only sending seismic shocks to the politics of America's neighbors, but also to the Middle East, Europe and Asia. The president-elect threatened real hell for Hamas in the Gaza Strip if he does not release Israeli hostages by the day he is sworn in. It does not support a ceasefire in the war-torn Palestinian enclave and vows to use any means to weaken Iran, which it has targeted as its main military adversary. Very unclear appears about the conflict in Ukraine started by Russia. Trump has promised to bring peace at any cost, which if done risks undermining all Western efforts to keep Ukrainian soil intact. He has raised great doubts about the future of the European continent with the relations he seeks to establish with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Donald Trump | US President-elect: Putin says NATO should never get involved in Ukraine. This seems to be written in stone. But along the way, Biden said no, they should join NATO. Then Russia would have a dike at its gates and so I understand what they feel. But many mistakes were made in those negotiations."
Donald Trump is not the only American politician stirring up the world. His right-hand man, the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, has angered the main leaders of Europe by sowing strife and political chaos in various countries, starting with France, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom. President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and a number of leaders almost unanimously repeated the call on Elon Musk to stop interfering in the internal affairs and politics of those countries. Many analyze that everything is being done to support certain political forces, mainly the extreme right, which can then turn into very strong allies of the elected American president, Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's first conference of the year showed the world only a trailer of a 4-year-old film that may have many surprises, surreal dynamics, new and old friends and enemies, but above all, uncertainty about the most important issues. important of the world. He promises peace and resolution of disputes, through some methods considered by analysts to be somewhat radical. (A2 Televizion)
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