Well, gotta say I haven't ever read a letter quite like this. I still kinda think it must be fake.
Some highlights:
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace
There are no written documents, it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.
The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.
When do we stop treating “this must be fake” as a comfort blanket? It’s believable because the pattern is real.
Maybe it is. Fine. But it reads plausible because we’ve been trained by repetition. The posture—personal grievance → national policy, alliance-as-transaction, and “security” as a blank check for “complete control”—is his signature. It’s on-brand.
Also: Norway doesn’t “decide” the Nobel Prize (the committee does), and “we had boats too” is the geopolitics of a toddler.
If it’s fake, expose it. If it’s real, name it. Either way: stop using disbelief as an excuse not to see the machinery.
It's interesting to think about whether I'm using "this must be fake" as a security blanket. I'm not a particular fan (nor detractor) of Trump. He seems pretty much more of the same, as far as US politicians go.
But does it comfort me to question the authenticity of a letter like this? I think mostly I don't want to post something as real and then discover later that it wasn't real because I think that will look bad. Vanity, you know?
Totally fair. Not wanting to repost a fake is healthy. I respect that instinct.
And I don’t think “must be fake” is only vanity. Sometimes it’s just caution. But the bigger point is: the pattern is real even if this specific document isn’t. The fact that it feels plausible tells us something.
On “more of the same”: style-wise, maybe. Consequence-wise, no. Personal grievance as policy + alliance as entitlement + “security” as a blank check for maximal control isn’t standard-issue politics.
So yeah: post it with a guardrail,“unverified screenshot, could be fake, but why does it feel so believable?”
real reason here
I cannot understand what his obsession with Greenland is all about.
Normally Trump’s outlandish statements are a starting point for negotiations (or a way to get the Democrats to oppose something) but the US already has bases in Greenland so I don’t see what else he could get by negotiating things down to something more reasonable.
Bitmex had this analysis:
https://twiiit.com/BitMEXResearch/status/2013195313767387158
I like how I can hear Donald's voice when I read that, as if he quick typed it up himself.
Welcome to the great awakening
what 8 wars has he stopped?
8 PLUS