As I wrote some time ago, it is entirely rational for Greenland to be a part of the US. That does not mean that Marxists call on the US to annex it. We support the progressive development that the disappearance of nation states, and the formation of much larger multinational states represents, but we seek to achieve that by voluntary association, not war. If the US were to offer enough money to each and every one of the 60,000 Greenlanders, I am sure that such a voluntary association would be possible. If I were a Greenlander $10 million would buy my support, and pay for a quick relocation to sunnier climes. But, of course, Trump, in so far as he talks about such a purchase, is not referring to the Greenlanders, but to their Danish overlords, just as the EU bourgeois politicians insist that its not the national self-determination of the Greenlanders they uphold, but that same right to sit at the bargaining table for the Kingdom of Denmark.
It has, however, also exposed all of the nonsense spouted by British and EU war mongers, who seek to increase military spending on the back of stirring up hysteria about an imminent Russian invasion. Its not Russia, and certainly not China, threatening to invade Greenland (or the rest of Europe, including the Baltics) but the US, just as its the US that invaded Venezuela, and talks about seizing the Panama Canal, and so on. As I noted a short time ago, Trump will annex Greenland, and despite all the hot air, the EU will do nothing, because as Trump's aides have said, what are they going to do, go to war with the US?
Trump's confusion of Iceland with Greenland in his Davos speech (a confusion ridiculously denied by his apologists) simply shows what is next on his mind, as a quick look at a map and the position of Iceland and Greenland shows. Having seized Greenland, Trump will seize Cuba, and begin applying pressure to Mexico, as well as increasing economic pressure on Canada. Canadian military strategists some time ago decided very quickly that if the US invaded there is little Canada can do about it.
Given the pathetic response of Starmer and Blue Labour, the question has also been asked of what if Trump decided to annex Britain. The stated aim of Trump's regime is now to undermine Starmer and install Farage. But, given Farage's mild criticism of Trump's Greenland policy, it may be more likely that Trump, especially if he reconciles with Musk, would begin to throw his support behind the likes of Yaxley-Lennon, and his White Christian nationalist religious zealots. But, even before then, a more likely target is Ireland. US imperialism is already heavily invested there, and without US multinational capital, Ireland will suffer a severe economic setback. Musk is already threatening Ryanair, following a row with its CEO, Michael O'Leary, and suggesting he will simply buy the company. Iceland is another obvious target for Trump.
What is clear is that reliance on EU imperialism against any such expansionism by Trump is a dead-end. The EU can do what I suggested some time ago, and recognise that US imperialism is its rival, not its benefactor. Rationally, the EU should speed up its development into a centralised multinational state, and develop its trading relations with the rest of Eurasia, on its borders. The petty-bourgeois nationalist regime of Trump will damage the long-term interests of US imperialism, rather than saving it from its continued, long-term, relative decline. Rather than imposing tariffs on US exports to Europe in response to Trump's tantrums, workers in Europe should seek to build their own class solidarity with workers in the US, Canada and Mexico.
In Britain, the pathetic, reactionary nature of Starmer's petty-bourgeois, nationalist Brexit regime shows why workers need to kick him out, and build their own mass party, to demand a re-entry into the EU immediately, and to begin the struggle for a workers' Europe.
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