Donald Trump’s first term was full of controversies. During that time, whether it was NATO organization or different global powers, there was a situation of turmoil among all of them. Donald Trump takes any decision at any time or even does new experiments. The latest example of this is America’s sudden withdrawal from the environmental agreement. Whereas, the whole matter was about an agreement related to climate change. Its main actor was America. But he had pulled America out of that agreement. It has been seen many times that situations of tension arise between America, Britain and Australia (friendly countries).
That is, it is very difficult to predict when Trump will take which decision and in what form. Because, there is tension among his closest associates. You will remember that Canada-America relations were of close nature. But there were many disagreements between Trump and Justin Trudeau and Trump had jokingly said that ‘We will also make Canada our 51st state’. It’s all a different movement. He takes many decisions in a traditional manner and sometimes also takes some new decisions suddenly.
However, if we look at it this way, Trump is not in favor of too much military intervention around the world. For this reason, it was Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
Shouldn’t our soldiers stay in Afghanistan or in different places of the world? This will significantly increase our military expenditure. But now that Trump’s second term has started, if we look at it, America has a role somewhere in the Ukraine War. America’s relations with China have been very tense in many respects. America’s relations are very competitive, in those situations we will have to see how Trump handles it.
Big changes can happen at the global level
If we talk about the international scenario during Trump’s second term, many big changes can take place. Just as in the year 2023, Hamas suddenly attacked Israel and after this the Israel-Middle East crisis continued for a long time. After the Hamas attack, more than 50 thousand Palestinians were killed in the Israeli attack.
In the Middle East crisis, conditions for a ceasefire should have been created, which were not being created. But while Joe Biden created similar conditions while leaving, Donald Trump himself had made efforts to improve relations with Iran during the election campaign. Even before Trump’s arrival, we have seen that somewhere or the other a ceasefire has been established between Israel and Palestine. That is, many major changes can be seen in the world order.
There is a lot of tug of war going on regarding Greenland. Trump claims to have bought it. Since it is a very important part of the Arctic region and Russia has also kept an eye on it. The Russian general even said that ‘there should not be much conflict regarding Greenland’.
America and Russia should sit together and divide Greenland. There are many different strategic points around the world which are strategically important, there will be a fight to capture those parts. It seems that this time Trump has come very serious. Although Trump tried to buy Greenland in 2019.
Conflict over Greenland
Actually, America has been trying to buy Greenland. Greenland is currently an autonomous region, but it is under Denmark. It used to be a colony of Denmark earlier. Later it became an autonomous region of Denmark. The most important thing here is that to establish its sovereignty over Greenland, Denmark had sold an island to America in 1920-1921 so that America could accept sovereignty over Greenland. This is not the first time an attempt has been made to buy Greenland. During the Second World War (1939 to 1945), when Germany occupied Denmark, America deployed its military base in Greenland."text-align: justify;">However, when the whole matter ended in 1946, Greenland was still under Denmark. But there was an agreement between Denmark and America that America would maintain a military base there. Since, due to global warming, most of that part is covered with ice, the entire Arctic is still covered with ice. Gradually due to global warming the snow there is melting and disappearing. Due to the removal of ice, it is becoming an important center of resources around the world. Greenland has a large number of resources. Greenland’s importance for resources has increased significantly. For this reason America wants to buy Greenland directly.
US supremacy and policy
Apart from this, there are many trade routes there, in this respect also it has great importance. It is a very important principle of foreign policy. The 19th century Monroe Doctrine (warning European powers not to intervene in the Western Hemisphere) is part of US foreign policy. Accordingly, it is given great importance in America. The Monroe Doctrine is still considered. If America dominates the Arctic region then America will be safe. From its point of view, America does not want any country to have influence over Greenland. America does not want Russia and China to have influence in Greenland in the future.
This time during Trump’s tenure, there is a challenge for him from Russia and China. How should he protect himself in the fight for their supremacy? In 1946, America had proposed to Denmark that it wanted to buy Greenland, but even then Denmark had rejected. This week, the Danish Prime Minister spoke to Trump and he clearly said that ‘Greenland is not ready to be sold, Greenland is not going to be sold.’ There was a long phone conversation between Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and US President Donald Trump. The issue of buying Greenland was raised again on the phone. Although the people of the former US President Joe Biden administration, they did not talk about taking it too seriously.
But the way Trump is more serious about Greenland than before. In such a situation, is a situation of geopolitical tension arising because of Greenland and the Arctic? Where a situation of China, Russia versus America is arising. Denmark and Greenland will have to bear a huge cost and huge brunt of this. Because the Prime Minister and the people of Greenland say that neither do we want to become Danish, that is, we do not want to become citizens of Denmark nor do we want to become American. We are residents of Greenland and want to remain residents of Greenland.
However, Trump says that the subsidy that Greenland is currently receiving from Denmark is not very much. Denmark is not providing very many resources. We will also provide you with many resources. Due to Trump’s aggressive attitude, lines of tension are visible somewhere in this Arctic region.
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