While good diplomacy is exoteric and idealist on the surface and esoteric and interest-driven below the surface, this distinction appears to have collapsed in both the United States and the European Union. In the US interests are overtly – and it could be argued even brutally – articulated without an exoteric surface layer. In Europe leaders appear to actually believe in the exoteric layer of ”universalism”, i.e. Christian imperialism. This is where dialogue about Greenland collapsed.
To Europeans the American desire for annexing Greenland appears as a presidential psychopathology rather than a strategic American necessity. However, from a strategic perspective Denmark and the EU don’t need Greenland, America does. Europeans refuse to accept that Realpolitik is the new name of the game and not because of President Trump but because of the respective global strategies of China and Russia. The same is true for Canada, the US needs Canada and will conquer it unless there is a peaceful accession to the United States of America. From my perspective Greenland should be independent as an indigenous nation and not be colonized by either Denmark or America. Alas, the voice of an indigenous people such as the Greenlander Inuits matters little in a world dominated by Realpolitik.
The European view that President Trump is a ”madman” is not merely a caricature, this is the European conception at the highest levels – as opposed to someone faithfully representing American interests. This is because of the mismatch between exotericism and esotericism in transatlantic diplomacy. Both sides are bad diplomats.
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