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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Sam Kiley

Trump’s obsession with Greenland is a victory for no one but Putin

All eyes are on Greenland. And that is exactly what Vladimir Putin wants. Russia’s president must be rubbing his hands and giggling with glee as he watches the president of the United States of America deliver the kind of strategic effect for Russia that a KGB colonel could only dream of.

Donald Trump’s peevish narcissism is Russia’s greatest asset. And while the US president’s myopic view of Greenland dominates geopolitics, it distracts from what is going on thousands of miles away to the east.

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