What we are witnessing now is not chaos. It is consistency.
After the violent removal of Venezuela’s president under the familiar banners of “justice,” “security,” and “narco-terrorism,” the mask slipped almost immediately. Within hours, attention shifted elsewhere. This time, north—to Greenland.
Maps draped in U.S. flags. The word “SOON.”
A president declaring, “We do need Greenland, absolutely.”
Refusing to rule out military force. Minimizing an entire people as “a very small amount of people” who will be “taken care of.”
If this feels unsettling, it should. Not because it is unprecedented—but because it is painfully familiar.
Entitlement Is Not Strength
This behavior follows the logic of narcissistic power, not leadership.
If someone has something Trump wants—oil, minerals, strategic territory—he treats that desire as entitlement. Want becomes need. Need becomes justification. Resistance becomes hostility.
This is not diplomacy. It is predation with a press release.
Greenland’s strategic location and mineral wealth are the real issues. NATO agreements already exist. Denmark has increased defense spending. The U.S. already has military access. Security is not threatened.
What is threatened is access without limits.
“We’ll Take Care of Them”
That sentence alone tells the whole story.
Whenever powerful men speak this way—about nations, communities, or populations—they are revealing the same worldview:
You are small. I am necessary. You exist to be managed.
History has never rewarded populations who believed those promises.
Venezuela was framed as a criminal threat that needed neutralizing. Greenland is framed as a “necessity” for global security. Different costumes. Same script.
Why Allies Are Alarmed—and Why They Should Be
Denmark’s intelligence services now openly labeling the U.S. a security risk marks a historic rupture. This is not ideological drama; it is a response to observable behavior.
When a country demonstrates that it is willing to remove foreign leaders by force, seize assets, and speak casually about annexation, allies stop assuming restraint.
Threats, even “symbolic” ones, are never neutral. They are a form of pressure meant to normalize the unacceptable.
The Repetition Compulsion of Power
Human beings who have never faced their own inner limits do not respect external ones.
This is not a psychological metaphor; it is a political reality. Unprocessed entitlement reenacts itself on a larger and larger stage. What begins as bullying becomes policy. What begins as ego becomes empire.
Humanity, in 2025, should indeed be more enlightened than to elect men who confuse domination with leadership—especially in a country with global military reach.
And yet here we are.
Why Personal Lines Matter
This is also why some disagreements are not “just politics.”
After working with me on A Dance to Freedom, voting for Trump is not a neutral difference of opinion. It signals a refusal to see power clearly or to feel its consequences for others. Emotional blindness does not vanish when the subject becomes geopolitical—it scales.
Not meeting for coffee was not punishment. It was alignment with reality.
Final Thought
Greenland’s prime minister said it plainly: “Our country is not for sale.”
Neither was Venezuela. Neither is any nation.
Borders, sovereignty, and human dignity are not inconveniences to be brushed aside when powerful men feel hungry for more.
What connects Venezuela and Greenland is not geography.
It is a mindset that believes strength means taking, and restraint is weakness.
History shows where that mindset leads.
The question is not whether Trump will keep pushing.
It is how long humanity will keep mistaking force for leadership—before the cost becomes impossible to deny.
Author’s Note:
This essay continues the reflection begun in “The Narcoterrorism Illusion: Why the U.S. Needs Venezuela to Be the Enemy” and “After the Applause Fades: Why External ‘Liberation’ Is Just Another Trap.” Together, these posts examine how moral narratives are used to justify force, how relief is mistaken for freedom, and how entitlement-driven power repeats itself—from Venezuela to Greenland—under different pretexts but with the same underlying logic.
This essay was written in collaboration with artificial intelligence (ChatGPT) as a tool for reflection, synthesis, and articulation. The responsibility for the ideas and interpretations expressed here remains my own.
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