FROM a piece by Olga Lautman at Substack:
When Trump first came to power in 2017, I repeatedly and publicly asked a question that has only grown harder to dismiss over the past decade: if someone deliberately set out to destroy the United States from within and dismantle its position in the world, what actions would be taken differently from what we are witnessing now? Trump’s conduct has never resembled mere incompetence, impulsiveness, or even corruption. Instead, it has always been a sustained pattern of national sabotage carried out through strategic chaos—one that Russia openly welcomes and is publicly celebrating as they watch America’s power, alliances, and credibility erode.
The current crisis surrounding Greenland only reaffirms this. Greenland has become the clearest test yet of whether NATO can survive when the danger comes from inside the alliance, because Trump’s renewed threat to invade allied territory cannot be dismissed as bluster or theatrics, particularly given that NATO was created explicitly to contain and deter the Soviet Union and to prevent precisely this kind of coercion against Europe by a dominant power.
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That intent is laid out plainly in Trump’s National Security Strategy, which for the first time in modern history reads less like an American doctrine than a Kremlin intelligence brief, openly attacking U.S. allies, undermining Europe’s democratic institutions, elevating far-right parties Russia has cultivated over a decade, and underscoring a willingness to destabilize Europe from within. It formalizes what Trump’s actions have already made clear: this is not drift or incompetence, but deliberate alignment that advances Russia’s strategic objectives while isolating Ukraine and destabilizing all of Europe.
Russian pundits praise Trump’s latest moves and openly say he is advancing Kremlin objectives.
