Today, local residents in Greenland are giving interviews with tears in their eyes. Meanwhile, the Russians are trying to exploit the situation in which Ukraine’s key partners have become bogged down in disputes over the island, says political expert Andrii Horodnytskyi, Channel 24 reports.
Recently, US President Donald Trump has claimed that Greenland is "unprotected" against a Russia–China threat and effectively demanded that the island be placed under US control. Such a position threatens international law and casts doubt on any security guarantees in a potential peace deal between Ukraine and Russia.
The Kremlin is interested in weakening as much as possible the allied relations among Ukraine’s partners.
“While NATO members are arguing, Putin is pleased, because sowing discord in the West has been one of his core ideas,” he says.
Moscow is deeply interested in conflicts between the US and the EU
The Russians are closely watching these developments and want Ukraine’s partners to begin clashing with one another and imposing restrictions on each other.
“Moreover, if a trade war begins, it will ‘ground’ a large share of industry,” Horodnytskyi notes.
Germany is currently the financial engine of the EU and is also actively developing its military-industrial complex.
If the EU-US confrontation over Greenland starts to undermine the EU’s financial cushion, it would constitute a major strategic setback.
The West pays less attention to Russia's daily killings of civilians in Ukraine
This is why Russians are now watching what is happening between allies with a sense of satisfaction.
“It diverts attention from the critical problems in Ukraine, from the fact that they are killing civilians. It also delays joint sanctions against Russia,” the political expert stresses.
The American leader has not even ruled out a military takeover of Greenland. According to him, the defenses there are weak. He has emphasized that he would do something with Greenland, and does not care what Denmark or the Greenlanders themselves think.
Against the backdrop of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the “Greenland case” is becoming not just a regional crisis but another factor of global instability, one that the Kremlin is trying to exploit to weaken the West and reduce support for Kyiv.
