American well-known blogger Mario Nofar wrote tonight (Beijing time, January 19th evening): "Russia told Trump: Taking over Greenland would create history."
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov: International experts believe that by solving the issue of Greenland's annexation, Trump will be immortalized in history.
Not only in American history, but also in world history.
Note Russia's approach: neither judging good or bad nor commenting on its legality, just stating a 'fact': if Trump occupies NATO territory, he will be remembered forever. This is an encouragement with room for reasonable denial.
When asked about Trump's claim that Russia threatens Greenland, Peskov avoided the question: there have been too many 'disturbing messages' recently, and he would not comment on the so-called Russian plots.
We say: We do not threaten Greenland, but we are delighted to see Trump destroy NATO in order to 'protect' Greenland.
The Russian Foreign Ministry had previously publicly accused the West of 'double standards', saying that it is unacceptable for the West to claim that Russia and China threaten Greenland while Trump threatens to occupy Greenland.
They are right. Trump is using Russia's threat as an excuse, while Russia is just laughing at it.
The strategy is obvious: provoke Trump, make him split the Western alliance, and wait for NATO to collapse due to internal conflicts. Russia
Can win without firing a single shot.
Even if Putin thinks hard, he cannot come up with a better script than this.
Source: Reuters
(Machine translation)
Original: toutiao.com/article/1854755240043780/
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