“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.
“Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.
“I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT” (source, confirmed by Norways PM)
There is no way to actually respond to this, as there’s so much to unpack. The toddler crying ‘I wanna’ part, the ‘reasoning’, the lack of factual basis, the narcissistic false boasting, the fact this is how a US president communicates directly to heads of government (as opposed to tossing red meat on his social media account to his base), the scattering of capital letters, what it implies about his mental health, that his environment is enabling this.
There is no rational way to respond to any of it. At all.
Other than writing off the USA completely and fully for the foreseeable future.
And doing our damnest to prepare and build resilience with utmost urgency against the inevitable global consequences. While Nero is calling for his aides to bring him his fidicula. Or throwing ketch-up. Riddikulus!
(the misspelling in the title is intentional)