"Very Slowly European Leaders Grow a Spine. Trump’s Arrogant Claims over Greenland and Europe’s Response" -> https://mlrg.online/current-events/very-slowly-european-leaders-grow-a-spine-trumps-arrogant-claims-over-greenland-and-europes-response/
"The verbal battles over Greenland, are only the most recent USA attempt to demonstrate its’ world hegemony. Above is pictured, the text sent by Trump to Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway on 19 January 2026.... But Greenland is only the latest salvo of what is to come. Already the first month of 2026 has been a tumultous year in 2026. Several alarming events in both the USA domestic and foreign policy have – and will further – affect the working classes of the world. These of course, go beyond the European Community as we discuss below. However, the pattern is clear. In January, we saw two major new features unfold. These mark an even greater and escalating risk of open inter-imperialist war. These two new features are: i) An even more overt and heightened, increasing aggression of the USA. We will briefly discuss four examples Venezuela, Greenland, Ukraine and Gaza and the so-called “Peace Board”. We will deal with events in Iran separately. ii) An evident ‘resistance’ of what one statesman – Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney calls “the middle powers”. The European Union has as a whole begun to move more towards the direction of resistance urged by President Macron of France. The “anti-USA” resistance of some of the “middle Powers” – is not unexpected. Nor is it either uniform or quick or, at present, irrevocable. It definitely fits the description of history in a “zig-zag” or the “parallelogram of forces” – as labelled by Frederick Engels: “So with all the other accidents, and apparent accidents, of history. The further the particular sphere which we are investigating is removed from the economic sphere and approaches that of pure abstract ideology, the more shall we find it exhibiting accidents in its development, the more will its curve run in a zig-zag.” Frederick Engels: Letter to Walther Borgius, January 25, 1894; Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50; at Rougenet This article updates prior analyses. We examine some of the latest twists and zig-zags of USA foreign policy; and in especial the responses elicited to it in the EU. We first place the events in their strategic framework. HK -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40321): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40321 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117414803/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
