Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has admitted that the letter from Trump is authentic. According to reports, the letter links Norway's decision to win the Nobel Peace Prize with Greenland, questions Denmark's "ownership," and claims that the world will not be safe unless the United States "completely controls" Greenland. The letter reads like a meme, but it is not. (Chinese version and original English text of the letters in Figures 2 and 3)
[Witty] Comments: The international order of the 21st century has long abandoned colonial plunder, yet Trump's letter exudes an acrid scent of hegemonic rot. Linking the Nobel Peace Prize with territorial disputes and using "world security" as a justification for colonial-style annexation, such absurd actions are far from the conduct of a major power leader, clearly treating the international community as a private trading ground. Ignoring Denmark's sovereignty and the reality of Greenland's autonomy, threatening with tariffs and force at will, its thinking lingers in the era of gunboat diplomacy, exposing both a contempt for international law and turning America's so-called "democratic security" into an international joke. Such retrograde actions will only disappoint allies and make the world wary.
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