Kategorie: Außen- und Geoplolitik

The latest push by Donald Trump over Greenland has triggered reflexive outrage in Europe. People have spoken of “imperial fantasies,” of “historical revisionism,” and of a “threat to the international order.” These reactions are understandable—but analytically insufficient. They miss the real core of the matter and obscure an uncomfortable truth: Trump’s Greenland stance is less an expression of personal eccentricity than a symptom of a deeper shift in the West’s power architecture.Anyone who wants to understand it must step back from moral agitation and return to sober analysis.The West as a community of riskThe West was—and remains—not a community of values in the seminar-room sense, but historically a community of risk among free nations. Its inner logic has never been moral self-affirm…