A few weeks ago, when the Prime Minister Denmark Mette Fredericksen spoke with US President Donald Trump about his insistence at Greenland’s accession to America, the telephone conversation was not very good. She understood America's concern about the defense, but again repeated that Greenland was not for sale. Trump did not agree to this.

The bell between these two equally stubborn leaders found not only a clash of interests, but also a clash of realities: the reality of Fredericksen is an order based on the rules, a world where it is expected that countries will follow contracts, rules and norms. While Trump's reality is the world of power policy where the strong do what they want, and the weak-even the ration countries do what Ivo Daalder, American political scientist, diplomat and consultant, as well as the former US ambassador in the USA, not.

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Trump does not perceive laws, rules and norms as a limitation of his actions. All his life he fought with people in courts and considers the world as a game with a zero sum, where there are only winners and losers. As a former president, he refused to admit his defeat in an honest election and called any attempts to hold him accountable "

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He adds that in order for Denmark or other countries to achieve their own, they will have to speak with Trump in the language of power.

" Greenland can be difficult to protect if Trump wants to use military power, but the deployment of troops and the attracting allies will make the White House think twice. The same applies to the response to tariffs and other trade measures that the US President threatens, ”the political scientist summed up.

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About how Greenland has become a strategic object in global competition, read in the article “Why Trump and Russia War of Greenland” Nikita Zubenko.