Stories from Minnesota: Part 4

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has called the deployment “wildly disproportionate” and a massive waste of taxpayer dollars, noting “at times, there are as many as 50 agents arresting one person.” City Council President Elliott Payne put it succinctly: “This is a military occupation, and it feels like a military occupation.”

Carin Mrotz, Minneapolis resident and Senior Advisor in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, posted her stories about the ICE atrocities in the Twin Cities in social media before it was taken down. Her account is being featured here so that you have another account of what is happening, bringing this to full view:

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“A post for my friends and family outside of Minneapolis. There is a lot of misinformation flying around and I want to share my perspective if it’s useful or compelling or helps cut through the clickbait and profiteering.

Over the past several weeks, thousands of ICE agents have been deployed to the Twin Cities and more are expected this week. There are currently more ICE agents than local law enforcement in the metro area. In some places they are visiting businesses that are likely to employ or serve immigrants looking for people to arrest. In some places they are camping out in cars on highway exit ramps and pulling over drivers they believe look like they could be immigrants.

In neighborhoods like mine that are primarily residential with few business corridors, they are staging targeted raids of homes. But they mix it up, yesterday they were driving around the neighborhood and a neighbor reported that an agent pulled over and asked her husband, who was out walking the dog, if he was a US citizen.

Yesterday morning I received a text in my neighborhood group chat that more than a dozen agents were staging outside of a house a few blocks away, legal observers were needed. I put on boots and drove over to a home near our middle school and found the street full of SUVs and men in militarized but not standardized gear with big “POLICE” labels all over them. These men were carrying big guns.

Several of my friends had already been maced and one of the agents was spraying mace into a crowd of observers as casually as a dad might spray his lawn with a hose in the summer. The agents brandished their guns at us a warning, or a threat, maybe both. Neighbors stood on the front lawns and blew whistles or banged on drums and asked to see the agents’ warrant. ICE is not supposed to be able to enter a home without a judicial warrant, which is a warrant signed by a judge. If you are a law and order person, that might mean something to you.

Yesterday, after a few minutes of arguing with neighbors, 10-15 agents mustered and broke down the door of the single family home. They entered and after a few minutes, they re-emerged with a tall Black man in a tee shirt, shorts, an unzipped hoodie, and rubber slides. They led him to their vehicle. It was about 15 degrees out. His wife stood on the front lawn, begging to know why they took him. Behind her the front door stood broken, offering no security to a house full of family members, including children.

Several of us observers asked to see the warrant, and I took a picture. I will not share it out of concern for the man’s privacy, but it was an administrative warrant, signed by an ice agent, not a judge. If it matters to you that residents follow the law in engaging with our occupying agents, this should matter to you. If you are a law and order person, you might consider that what I witnessed was an abduction, not an arrest.

Across the Twin Cities, raids like this continued all day. On the southside, ICE agents surrounded a legal observer in her vehicle, broke the windows, and dragged her and her passenger out of the car and detained them. Everyone I know knows someone who has either had a relative (or multiple relatives) taken or has been a witness to one of these abductions. The pace of the operations has been relentless, manic, and the agents are acting with remarkable brutality.

Yesterday, as one of my neighbors attended to another who’d been sprayed with mace, pouring clean water in her eyes on the icy sidewalk in below freezing temps, her mother stood nearby on the phone with MPD, asking them to send someone to help. I don’t know if their decision not to was strategic or just simply about capacity, no local law enforcement has been present at any of the operations I’ve witnessed.

If you are someone who believes that you should absolutely just do whatever law enforcement tells you to do and you will be safe and respected, I would ask if you’ve ever had big guns drawn on you by someone yelling orders at you, those orders sometimes conflicting and unclear. And what if they were also spraying you with chemical irritants in 15 degree weather. If someone maced you for blowing a whistle at them, how confident are you in their ability to calmly follow procedure and not shoot you?

This summer our House Speaker Emerita and her husband were murdered in their home by someone impersonating a police officer. How confident are you that you could make sense of the meanings and markings of a uniform under stress? If armed men filled your street and broke down your neighbor’s door without a warrant, how confident are you that you could stay calm? These are questions we are asking ourselves constantly.

I have a lot of opinions about why this is happening, why Minnesota has been targeted and why our elected leaders are making the decisions they are and what will happen next, but this post is primarily to level set and let you know what’s going on. Because I also want you to know how we are responding.

First, I want to say that my experiences are those of a white professional who is not at risk for deportation. Immigrants and people afraid of being mistaken for immigrants are having a different set of experiences. ICE has been putting detainees on planes and sending them to places like Texas before their families can even hire lawyers or find out where their loved ones have been taken.

People are afraid and avoiding leaving their homes, even to get groceries. After ICE tear-gassed parents and school staff at a local high school last week, our public schools closed and have now re-opened with hybrid learning so that parents who are afraid to send their kids to school have an option.

Neighbors are organizing to protect and care for each other. We observe and document raids. We show up at schools at dropoff and pickup time, we pick up groceries for those who are staying home. Some of the muscle memory of the neighborhood watches we formed during the uprising 5 and a half years ago has reengaged. The Twin Cities is connected and resilient and pissed off and will continue to protect each other.

That is the important thing to know right now: Our cities are under occupation and we are being attacked by our federal government. And we are tenacious and we love each other and we will continue to protect each other. We will continue to blow whistles and bang pots and pans to alert our neighbors that ICE is nearby. We will continue to argue with them and waste their time knowing that someone else will have 15 more minutes to get away. We will continue to share videos of them slipping and falling on their asses on the icy walks and we will laugh hard at them. We have legal tools to fight them and we also have our long history of organizing and resistance.” — Carin Mrotz

This post was from January 12th. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

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Trump Betrays Ukraine for Russia

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While ICE has been busy with terrorizing people in Minnesota and Trump has been obsessing over acquiring Greenland and possibly Canada, another news story that has slipped past traditional media and also the social media (whose postings were removed as fast as its release to the public) has to do with the Ukraine. While bombings and casualties have become part of daily life there, another threat not mentioned is Trump secretly collaborating with Putin regarding the country’s future, as you can see in this column below. And if this is true, it would have full-blown destructive potential for the US, its European neighbors and lastly, NATO. In normal terms, it would count for impeachment for treason on the part of Trump. Yet the damage may be too severe to even repair. Here’s what France and Ukraine did:

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France and Ukraine deliberately gave the U.S. false intelligence to see if Trump/his admin would pass it onto Russia—and they did. The media is not talking about this which further proves that our mainstream media is as untrustworthy.

Ukraine Ran Sting on U.S. Intel to Catch Russia Leaks
A French ex-intelligence operative claims it proves that Washington shared strategic information with Russia Only two weeks into the year and the geopolitical landscape of 2026 has been marked by a significant realignment of intelligence sharing protocols between Ukraine and its traditional western partners.

Ukrainian intelligence services deliberately fed false strategic information to their American counterparts to test whether it would leak to Russian forces, according to former French DGSE operative Vincent Crouzet, in a claim aired on France’s LCI television network om 15 January that highlights deepening distrust between Kyiv and Washington under the current U.S. administration.

Vincent Crouzet, a former operative of the French Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) and a noted commentator on security matters, alleged during the ‘24h Pujadas’ programme that Ukrainian intelligence services have engaged in a deliberate campaign of disinformation directed at the United States. According to Crouzet, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, known as the GUR, intentionally provided false strategic data to American agencies.

This operation was reportedly designed as a ‘sting’ to identify the source of sensitive information leaks to Russian forces. The implications of such an action are considerable, as they point toward a belief within the Ukrainian leadership that high-level officials in Trump’s administration may be compromising strategic secrets.

The shift toward European intelligence autonomy
This development occurs against a backdrop of increasing friction between the White House and the administration of President Zelenskyy in Ukraine.

Since his return to office in 2025, President Trump has frequently criticised the scale of American assistance to Ukraine and has advocated for a swift resolution to the conflict, which many observers interpret as favouring Russian territorial interests using scripts which appear to follow almost word for word those emanating from the Kremlin.

In March 2025, the United States briefly suspended intelligence sharing to pressure Kyiv into peace negotiations, a move that appears to have permanently altered the bilateral security relationship.

French positioning
French President Emmanuel Macron has positioned France as the primary alternative to American intelligence dominance.In his January 2026 address to the French military, Macron asserted that France now provides two-thirds of the strategic intelligence required by Ukraine.

This claim suggests that European agencies, specifically the DGSE and the military intelligence agency DRM, have successfully filled the vacuum left by the withdrawal or unreliability of American support.
While some Ukrainian officials, including Kyrylo Budanov, continue to emphasise a dependence on technical American assets such as satellite imagery, the broader trend indicates a pivot toward European ‘sovereign’ intelligence.

Historical precedents
The suspicions voiced by Crouzet and echoed in French media are not without historical context.
Critics of the current American administration often cite past incidents to justify their wariness. These include the 2017 disclosure of classified Israeli intelligence to Russian diplomats in the Oval Office and the 2023 Pentagon leaks, which exposed critical vulnerabilities in the way the United States handles sensitive data related to the Ukrainian war effort.

The alleged Ukrainian sting operation represents a sophisticated evolution in this relationship. If the GUR did indeed feed disinformation to the U.S. only to see that information influence Russian military movements, it would provide empirical evidence of a direct pipeline between Washington and Moscow.
Such a revelation would necessitate a total replacement of American intelligence channels with those of France, the United Kingdom, and Germany to ensure the survival of the Ukrainian state.

Trump is casual with intel
Besides the fact that Trump stored classified files in his bathroom at Mar-a-Lago and refused to return them, there are several known instances of his laxity over US secrets. Trump was indicted over this issue but the matter was discontinued when he was elected.

Geopolitical consequences of the ‘divorce’
The ‘divorce’ between Ukrainian and American spy agencies, as described by Crouzet, has wider implications for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and European security, which is already struggling to manage Trump’s ranting about taking over Greenland.

The lack of independent verification (as of time of writing) for these specific intel claims does not diminish their impact on the public and political discussion in Europe. If European leaders conclude that American intelligence is no longer a secure partner, the drive for strategic autonomy will probably accelerate.

France and other European nations have already begun to increase their commitments, with discussions involving the deployment of multinational forces to monitor borders and provide security guarantees. As of January 18, 2026, the situation remains fluid, with official denials from Washington and silence from Kyiv. However, the narrative of a Franco-Ukrainian intelligence axis is becoming a central pillar of the European response to the ongoing Russian genocide in Ukraine.

Realignment of the NATO intelligence architecture
The reported Ukrainian ‘sting’ operation and the subsequent pivot toward European intelligence providers signal a fundamental — and worrying — shift in NATO’s internal security dynamics. This transition from a U.S.-centric model to a more fragmented, polycentric architecture is sad but necessary and carries significant implications for the Alliance.

Erosion of the single point of truth: The provision of disinformation to U.S. agencies by a partner state creates a ‘trust deficit’ that undermines collective decision-making. If intelligence is used as a tool for internal vetting rather than external defence, the coherence of NATO’s strategic assessments is compromised.
Rise of European strategic autonomy: France’s emergence as a primary intelligence provider accelerates the ‘Europeanisation’ of security. This reduces the risk of single-country policy shifts but creates potential interoperability challenges between European ‘Sovereign’ systems and U.S. technical assets (TERCOM data used by Storm Shadow, for example).
Splitting of data flows: We are witnessing a transition toward ‘coalitions of the willing’. Intelligence is increasingly shared in smaller, high-trust clusters (e.g., France, UK, Germany, and Ukraine) rather than through broader NATO channels, potentially leaving some eastern flank members vulnerable.
These shifts require a formal reassessment of NATO’s ‘need-to-know’ protocols to ensure that political volatility in one member state does not jeopardise the operational security of the entire Alliance, whether that includes the US or not.

Other destabilising news
In case you missed it, there are also stories circulating that the US delayed delivery of air defence missiles to Ukraine in December which gave Russia an opportunity to launch major attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, reducing grid power by 40%. President Zelensky has called Ukraine’s air defence supplies “insufficient”, having revealed several systems were “without missiles” until Friday morning. [16 January 2026]

“I can say this openly because today I have those missiles,” the president said, adding that Ukraine had received a “substantial package” earlier in the day. His comments follow days of intense Russian bombardment of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, leaving thousands of people without heating and electricity during a bitterly cold winter. — BBC

Was this pause in US missile supplies deliberate, requested by Moscow? Whatever the reason, this further erodes trans-Atlantic trust.

Conclusions
There is clearly distrust in NATO countries about the US’s intentions and trustworthiness as an ally.
If the main story is verified then this is a major issue as many NATO systems depend on intel data provided by the US. So was there a Ukrainian intel sting on the US?

I’m inclined to believe the story and have serious doubts about Trump’s motivation. There are very real fears in NATO over Trump’s trustworthiness and there is clear concern that this extends downwards into his administration, particularly the intelligence apparatus.

And it’s getting worse as the mad megalomaniac goes on a geopolitical rampage. NATO is going through a very rocky patch as Trump threatens Canada, Greenland and Denmark and says he will impose tariffs on any country that does not support his desire to gain control of Greenland.

Sources:



https://www.newsnationnow.com/trump-investigation/secret-documents-donald-trump/

https://kyivindependent.com/france-replaces-us-as-main-intelligence-provider-to-kyiv-macron-says/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAPateRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe_oOJa59dseaFQ5eEpZ6a0WfY7Dd5BJyttN4v9PKEzNBY9YLzJ8baaLrMtL8_aem_OFMprhBG3pdbZHsipoXIMA

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Emergency Powers in the Making by Miles Taylor

“Donald Trump’s desire to invoke one of the presidency’s most extraordinary, emergency powers is ten years in the making. I believe he will do it. And I believe we have real options to fight back.”

Miles Taylor, who once had worked for Trump during his first administration, presented this sobering piece of how his grasp on power came to being, how he would remain in power at any cost, and what tools we have left to pry him of that. Trump’s quest at fascism dates back ten years even though it has been revealed in the open once he took office the second time. We should use this to connect the dots and include the Insurrection of January 6th 2021 and his attempts at making a poster boy out of Minneapolis and Minnesota. It fits the rule where once a fascist grabs power, the only solution is extreme measures including a war. I hope we have other non-war measures that will work and according to Taylor, there are, as long as the window of opportunity is open.

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Donald Trump’s desire to invoke one of the presidency’s most extraordinary, emergency powers is ten years in the making. I believe he will do it. And I believe we have real options to fight back.
As news outlets reported this week, the White House is openly threatening to deploy U.S. troops into Minnesota under the Insurrection Act after protests erupted following the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent. Federal forces have already flooded Minneapolis. The president is now warning that unless the state “stops the professional agitators and insurrectionists,” he will send in the military using one of his most extraordinary powers.

Contrary to the analysis of many pundits, this isn’t bluster. It’s the culmination of a nearly ten-year fixation I witnessed firsthand inside Donald Trump’s first administration.

Last night I went on Jen Psaki’s show on MSNOW to explain why this moment has been coming for a decade — and why Trump has always wanted to test the outer limits of his “apex” powers.
We’ve been here before. In fact, I watched Trump nearly invoke the Act — and talked him out of it.

I’ve written repeatedly about the Insurrection Act because I saw how dangerously close we came to it during Trump’s first term. Indeed, it was the very first thing I disclosed when I first came forward against the president ahead of his re-election campaign.

In 2019, while I was chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, Trump nearly used the Act to dramatically militarize the Southern Border, where he’d openly mused about repelling migrants by force, i.e. shooting them.

I got a phone call that tipped me off. Trump had just watched cable news footage of a migrant caravan approaching the Southern Border, and he was furious. Aides alerted me that he wanted to announce in his State of the Union address that he was sending the military to take over border security and to override any objection, law, or court.

Our lawyers told us this was madness. This didn’t rise to the level of a “foreign invasion.” Not even close. I agreed. What’s more, we feared that if he did this at the border, it would be a slippery slope: he’d send the military anywhere in the country that he wasn’t getting his way.

When the Secretary and I got to the White House, the President was practicing his speech in the Map Room. He greeted us with a grin, as if unable to hide his excitement at preparing to exercise a power he’d been told was one of the “break glass” emergency authorities of the presidency. We immediately set about convincing him this was the “wrong time” to do such a thing and the “wrong circumstances.”

What followed was a torturous night of ping pong. We enlisted the White House lawyers to help us persuade the boss. We called the Secretary of State. We phoned colleagues in the Government of Mexico to see what more they could do to tamp down the caravan. And when we persuaded him the situation was under control — and couldn’t possibly warrant the use of powers meant for wartime — he eventually (and begrudgingly) relented.

But after that moment, it was clear: he would try again.

In fact, he never let go of the idea. On other occasions in conversations with us, he referred almost wistfully to the Insurrection Act as his “magical authorities.” He believed — and still believes — that Article II of the U.S. Constitution allows him to do “whatever I want as President.”

Since returning to office, Trump has been trying to foment an “insurrection” or “rebellion” to justify emergency action. Last year I warned repeatedly that Donald Trump was edging toward this moment. He began experimenting in Los Angeles, pushing troops beyond their lawful support roles, daring the courts to stop him. The very day he announced he was sending the Marines into California last June, I wrote this:

This could be the beginning of Trump’s worst abuse of power. Who is to say he won’t send U.S. troops into each “Blue State” that opposes his policies? Or to shut down organizations he doesn’t like? Or to round up his critics?

That’s almost exactly what has happened since (including the White House putting in place measures to designate opposition groups and individuals as “domestic terrorists” and to charge his opponents with fake crimes). They tried to create the circumstances that would justify an invocation. They probed Los Angeles. They probed Chicago. They probed Washington, D.C. They probed Portland.

In each case, the opposition refused to play the role Trump and Stephen Miller wrote for them. Protests were loud but largely peaceful. And local officials kept order, meaning that suddenly invoking the Insurrection Act would not have passed the laugh test.

What’s more, the courts shot down those National Guard and troop deployments. From California to Washington, D.C., federal judges ruled that the president’s actions were flat-out unconstitutional. On New Year’s Eve, Trump quietly and ruefully said he was withdrawing the National Guard — but hinted ominously at what was to come.

Perversely, those rulings only accelerated his interest in the Insurrection Act, the one statute that could give him a colorable excuse to send the military back in and make it harder for the courts to constrain him.

Here’s why Minnesota might be different. Knowing these people, I strongly suspect the Trump administration studied the map of American unrest the way a fire inspector studies old burn scars on a building’s walls. That’s why cities with a big protest history (LA, DC, Chicago, Portland) were up first. But they didn’t deliver.

Then, White House aides remembered 2020. Specifically, I imagine they recalled how the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis became a national symbol at the end of Trump’s first term, and they knew it could be a potential powder keg.

So they poured in thousands of federal agents, under the flimsy excuse that kindergartens run by Somali-Americans were rife with fraud — as if that’s the type of national security threat that requires shock troops instead of investigative accountants. The tension rose the past few weeks, by design. Then an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. While I don’t believe her death was part of some scripted plot, the confrontational posture made such a tragedy more likely.

Now the White House is gathering the visuals it was hoping for. They’re asking ICE officers to grab street footage for them, too, in an effort to document clashes, grieving crowds, and a state under pressure. Trump’s message is predictable and pre-planned: Nothing can fix this but the U.S. military.

Trump’s use of the Insurrection Act would surely be illegal. Here are a few ways I think we can stop him.
The Insurrection Act was written in 1807 to repel invasions and suppress genuine rebellions. It is meant to be a last resort when states cannot protect constitutional rights or enforce federal law. Minnesota does not meet that standard, by any stretch of the imagination. The state retains full control of its own National Guard, local police and courts are functioning, there’s no observable “insurrection” in sight.

In fact, using the Act there would invert its purpose. The federal government would be deploying troops against a state that is capable of maintaining order, simply because the president dislikes its politics. Courts should absolutely strike this down. But Trump has never treated the law as a guardrail, and he’s counting on the fact that federal courts will be slow to respond.

Despair is exactly what the White House wants. However, there are practical, powerful steps federal, state, and local leaders can take to check Trump’s wayward use of his presidential power if he invokes the Act.

First, Minnesota should sue and strip away the pretext. The governor and attorney general could seek a declaratory judgment that the Insurrection Act’s conditions are not met and that the state retains primary authority over public safety. Minnesota should simultaneously build the factual record: activated National Guard units under state control, mutual-aid agreements, functioning courts, and certifications from law-enforcement leaders that order can be maintained. A formal declaration of capacity would gut Trump’s claim that only the U.S. military can restore peace.

Second, other states MUST move together. It’s time for the governors to have an emergency summit. Illinois, California, Oregon, and others should file parallel briefs stating they will not consent to federal military policing within their borders and will challenge any similar deployment. Governors should convene in emergency session to adopt a joint compact defending federalism and coordinate Guard resources so no state can be isolated and bullied. Unity is a legal shield and a political deterrent, and we are LONG overdue for the governors to come together to show that.

Third, Congress must put the military on notice, immediately. Members should announce they will open Congressional investigations into any manifestly unlawful orders issued under a sham invocation of the Act, with inspectors general requests and committee subpoenas ready to go. Uniformed leaders need to hear, before a single deployment, that obedience to manifestly illegal commands carries personal and institutional consequences. This is not intimidation; it’s a reminder of their oath to the Constitution.

Fourth, impeachment must begin the moment he acts. Even if today’s GOP majority in the House blocks impeachment proceedings, opposition Members of Congress should file articles of impeachment and create the constitutional record that courts and future Congresses will rely upon. Silence would be treated as acquiescence. And if Democrats retake Congress, those proceedings can and must resume where they left off. Donald Trump fears impeachment if he loses the midterms, and he should.

Fifth — and most importantly — this would be a moment for mass civic resistance. If U.S. troops are sent against an American state, the response must be the largest peaceful mobilization in our history. By that, I mean coordinated marches in every state capital and cities large and small, labor walkouts, faith leaders in the streets, veterans standing between soldiers and citizens, mayors opening city halls for lawful assembly, and more. Trump is portraying the opposition as “terrorists” and “insurrectionists”; millions of calm Americans can shatter that illusion overnight.

This is not an exhaustive list. There’s a great deal more that can be done. And in the coming days and weeks, those options will be fleshed out. What we cannot do, though, is be lulled into a false sense of comfort that this is another Trump “joke” and not the real thing. We have to be ready.

Like I’ve said, again and again, Trump has been rehearsing this play for a decade. I watched the dress rehearsals. This time he believes the stage is set. But it isn’t, unless we surrender it to him. The Constitution still works when Americans use it, and the United States won’t become a despotism unless we allow it to be one.

Before that ever happens, we have options to fight back — lawfully, peacefully, and defiantly.

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Stories from Minnesota Part 3: Robbing a Person of his Basic Life

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While this next story has some Minnesota twists in there, it should set off alarm bells for other states. Minnesota twists because of the lack of humanity that ICE has when arresting and taking away people, most of whom have US citizenship and no criminal record. Reports of a Hmong elderly person being escorted out the door in handcuffs, half naked and only his slippers came out yesterday which has sparked outrage from all aspects. Apart from ICE patrolling schools just so they can kidnap students, there are reports of ICE troops being at places of sacredness where privacy should be respected, but it is not. Funeral homes and churches are one, but in the case of this story, coming out from an anonymous source and posted through several channels, they are now tackling hospitals and other medical care facilities, as well as purging Medicare data.

Through robbing them of the most essential care, they are putting the atrocities on the same level as the murder of Renee Good two weeks ago. And when this is all over, those who have done any of this should not be walking the streets a free person ever again! Full stop!

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ICE is now using Medicaid data to hunt people for deportation, and the government tried to keep it secret until journalists forced it into the open.

A lawsuit by 404 Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation revealed a previously hidden data-sharing agreement between the DHS and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that gives ICE access to the personal information of up to 80 million Medicaid recipients.

This isn’t targeted policing. It’s mass surveillance — built on a healthcare system people are told they can trust.

The data includes names, home addresses, dates of birth, and other identifiers that make it easy to locate someone. In plain terms, the same system meant to help low-income families get medical care is now being repurposed as an immigration enforcement database.

That should terrify anyone who believes healthcare should be safe, confidential, and separate from policing.

Immigrant families have long feared that seeking medical care could expose them to ICE. Now that fear is justified. Health policy experts warn this will push people to avoid doctors, delay care, and keep sick children at home — not because they don’t need help, but because they’re afraid of what happens if they ask for it .

That’s not just cruel. It’s a public-health disaster.

And let’s be clear about the lie at the center of this. Undocumented immigrants are already barred from most Medicaid benefits under federal law. This data grab doesn’t stop “fraud.” It doesn’t save money. It simply turns a safety-net program into a surveillance dragnet.

Courts briefly blocked the data sharing, but judges later allowed portions of it to resume, clearing the way for ICE to continue accessing basic biographical information for enforcement purposes. The door is now open — and history shows what happens next. Law enforcement agencies always expand how they use data once they get their hands on it.

This is the same logic behind past programs that funnelled fingerprints, local records, and administrative data into ICE databases — policies that civil rights groups warned would lead to racial profiling and mass deportation.

They were right then. They’re right now.

If people can’t go to the doctor without fearing deportation, the system is broken by design.

Healthcare data should never be a weapon. Medicaid should not be an informant. And no society that claims to value human dignity should allow doctors’ files to become a tool for ICE.

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Stories from Minnesota: Part 1

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The next few posts in the Files will take us down to the scene, live and in-person, in Minneapolis and the surrounding area in Minnesota. Apart from the fact that I originate from there, the events have hit here in Germany and many of us don’t have the real accounts of what exactly is happening. In fact, one of the readers recently wrote a comment post denying that the events are taking place and that there was no fascist America. I begged to differ and offered that person to leave if he was still living in that Trump bubble, indoctrinated with that Breitbart shit.

The events have hit home as many families and friends we know are affected and therefore, I’m going to present some examples of accounts that exist, some with sources included, while others are kept annonymous to protect their identities. The goal is to bring the events to light from personal accounts and hopefully, set a spark to force Congress and the Supreme Court to put an end to ICE in America, and with that, Trump’s America.

Already articles of impeachment is in the works which should be in place by the end of March. However, given the unprecedence that is happening, we may need to transcend some laws and adopt what other governments are doing with their corrupt leaders. Some ideas will come later on. But for now, to shed some light on what is happening, here are some stories:

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The first story was shared to one of the members of the Trump resistance group (whose names will not be revealed) from one of his friends who is in the thick of the demos in Minnesota. With his permission, I am presenting this here:

I get so tired of hearing people lecture about what ICE can and cannot do legally. Yes, we all know. The problem is ICE agents don’t care and do what they want. DHS have told them they have unconditional immunity.

Their raids are everywhere–including places we go regularly: restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores, parks, hospitals, any kind of business or public space you can think of. In many parts of the city, you literally cannot go out without hearing the sirens and whistles. And then the constant helicopters… (Everyone who lives here knows what I mean.)

Like every parent here, I worry for my daughter’s school because they are, yes, targeting schools. Last week they attacked students and staff at a Minneapolis high school. Yesterday it was a middle school and elementary school. Today it was circling nearly all South Minneapolis elementary and middle schools. ICE is at day care centers and preschools. Parents are volunteering to monitor school pickups and dropoffs, and yesterday there was police presence at my daughter’s school. Many kids can’t even go to school now because there’s so much fear they or their parents will be taken. Schools are rushing to create online lessons and hybrid setups to accommodate those who don’t feel safe enough to come to school. Children have literally been abducted on their way home from school by ICE. I know of at least one parent who was abducted at a bus stop today while she stood with her elementary school child.  They illegally entered the college campus I worked at and abducted a student there. Again, this is just what I know of through my own personal networks.

Oh, and ICE is also blocking the food distribution center for the Minneapolis Public Schools, so trucks can’t get out to deliver lunches. It’s been reported to the MN Atty General, but that doesn’t change the fact that students will go hungry.

Thousands upon thousands of people are afraid to leave their homes to go grocery shopping, visit food shelves, get medicine, or go to work. Businesses are empty or closed because workers are terrified to travel to or be visible in their jobs. Women in our neighborhood are asking through back channels about at-home midwives because they’re afraid to go to the hospital to have their babies. And their fear is warranted! ICE has been entering hospitals without warrants. They’ve attacked people outside hospitals, and they’ve also been waiting outside multiple hospitals, including a children’s hospital, to pick up people of color who come out the doors.

Neighborhoods and churches, including my own, are scrambling to organize mutual aid efforts to get groceries to people or help pay bills while family members can’t go to work or drive those who are afraid to be seen behind the wheel or at a bus stop. We’re not just talking about undocumented people. We’re talking about any person of color. These are our neighbors. Our children’s classmates. Our friends and family members.

Our city but increasingly our entire metro area is seeing and dealing with these cosplay thugs every single day. And they are moving into rural areas as well, picking up people indiscriminately. Again, this has NOTHING to do with criminal backgrounds and EVERYTHING to do with race. Now on top of it all we have a bunch of white supremacist goons coming here in a few days to “march” in the most terrorized neighborhoods. My only comfort is that it’s supposed to be single digits next week. Welcome to Minnesota, losers. We saved our best weather just for you.

I’m beyond disgusted with these thugs and those who support this assault on our Constitutional rights, let alone basic human decency. My community is exhausted and fried from stress, and I’m a white person who doesn’t even live in the epicenter. I can’t imagine what many are going through right now who can’t work and have no income, those whose loved ones have been taken or beaten (or murdered), the children who are forever traumatized at the loss of their parents.

But make no mistake–we aren’t backing down. I’ve lived a lot of places in my life, and I have to say they chose the wrong freaking state. People are organizing beyond anything I’ve ever seen in my life, and it makes me so damned proud to live in this city. I’ve never loved it more, and I’ll keep fighting for it.

So, please–share the stories, share the videos. Amplify everything you see coming out of this state. The mainstream media is all but dead. Follow Georgia Fort, Mercado Media, Sahan Journal, and independent outlets like Meidas and Courier (just to name a few). Listen and know that it’s got to be all of us fighting this. Wake up to what is really happening…before it comes for you and your communities.

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One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent.  It is time for our communities to escalate as well.

January 20th there will be a nationwide walkout where people drop their things and take to the streets. The event is supposed to take place at 2:00pm local time, according to a press release by 50501 (see here)

The event is expected to spread abroad as well. For example in Frankfurt (Main), where a similar event is taking place in the afternoon as well. A virtual walkout is scheduled to take place from 3:00- 4:00pm. Details on the event can be found in the link here:
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Even from abroad, there is SO MUCH we can do! The Resistance Roundtable has prepared short presentations with links, guides, and templates to help you get started today! No matter your skill level, nor whether you can commit 30-minutes a week or several hours, there are tons of easy ways to get involved!

2025 was a year of marches that showed our collective strength. And as the threats grow, our movement must evolve and escalate. Trump and his allies have already made clear that a second term would bring a deeper wave of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and violence than the first. It is up to us all to draw a line in the sand and push back with a loud “NO!!!”

We have already started boycotting products from corporations that support Trump and Project 2025, and have made a clear message through our protests. Now it’s time to turn it up a notch and put pressure on our public officials to stop this madness which has caused more damage than we could imagine.

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Stories from Minnesota: Part 2- Why Minnesota?


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When Lyz Lenz wrote this piece and posted it a couple days ago, the title of the story was “Why Minnesota?” That was the question I had as I was putting an article together. I have a theory behind that which once it’s posted, one can mull over it. Still Trump’s tirade against Minnesota was largely unjustified, especially given the fact that the state of almost 6 million inhabitants are people who are not only progressive but also a community of colorful people, helping out wherever possible. We don’t have the theme “Minnesota Nice” for nothing and I take pride in that. 🙂 But Why Minnesota? Let’s allow Lyz to take the podium and again, feel free to comment:

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ICE is terrorizing American cities — kidnapping American citizens off the streets, shooting and killing bystanders.

But in Minnesota, the violence is far more targeted and extreme. Trump is deploying some 3,000 ICE and CBP agents to the city, making this the largest immigration action taken by the administration thus far. And there is no end in sight. The advice on the ground in Minnesota is to settle in for a long, hard fight.

Trump seems to be using Minneapolis as a precedent for deploying the military against American citizens. Perhaps as a test case to quell any political opposition — all of which he views as insurrection.

But why Minnesota? Why the Midwest? Why pick on the land of “oh geez” niceties, Scandinavian passive aggression, hot dish, skiing, and lakes? Why pick on the suburban moms of Edina, with their Stanleys and their kids’ hockey bags? The grandmothers with their knitted sweaters and unmade-up faces? Minnesota, where the potatoes are cheesy, and the salsa is mild? Why pick on them?

Because Minnesota is far more radical and diverse than you might think when you just fly over.

Why? Well you could start with the first white settlers. In a 2020 article for the Star Tribune, former Carlton College Professor Emeritus Steven Schier is quoted explaining, “Minnesota was settled largely by churchgoing Scandinavians and Germans, who were ‘moralistic and public regarding,’ and tended to agree with the notion that government had a role to play when it’s in the best interest of everyone. That ethos has persisted in the state’s consistently high voter turnout over the years, and it has frequently benefited left-leaning candidates in elections.”

That ethos is evident in the fact that the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party was part of one of the most successful socialist movements in American history. And the belief in strong unions and a strong social safety net is an enduring part of Minnesota’s history and culture.

Even rural areas of Minnesota are strong Democratic voting blocs thanks to the unions.

The state has a history of social activism and social conscience.

But there are other factors at play.

Minneapolis has a large Somali population. Nearly 80,000 people of Somali descent currently live in Minnesota, roughly 78% of whom reside in the Twin Cities. The diaspora began in the ’90s, when Somalia was being torn apart by civil war, drought, and famine. So many came as refugees, through the efforts of churches and missionary organizations. But another factor was a changing political climate in Minnesota, aided by the civil rights movement, that offered a hospitable welcome.

This was underscored in 2020, when the city became the site of mass protests after the death of George Floyd.

It wasn’t just Floyd, either — there were other Black men who’d died as a result of police brutality in Minnesota. So when Floyd was killed, and there was video, which allowed everyone with internet access to see the injustice so clearly, it catalyzed a worldwide movement for racial equality. That movement coincided with the year of the pandemic shutdowns and an election that Donald Trump lost.

The protests and that movement, whatever else they were, were humiliating for Trump. And since taking office, Trump has targeted Minnesota for his most punitive actions. It’s racism against Muslims, Black people, and Brown people, yes. But it’s also retribution against his political enemies. Trump has repeatedly gone after people who dared to try to stop him, and Tim Walz, the beloved governor of Minnesota, ran against Trump and JD Vance as Kamala Harris’ running mate.

The state is also liberal; a place where Trump can antagonize his political opponents. This weekend, the Justice Department announced it’s investigating Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. It’s a shit-on-the-libs move designed to fire up the Trump political base. There is also the issue of daycare fraud. While the fraud is not as widespread as elected Republicans would have you believe, it was still a problem in the state in 2019, and the latent resentments make it a political minefield that is easy to exploit.

But there is another element here too.

Misogyny.

You can argue against the efficacy of those 2020 protests. But I won’t. I believe protest is effective even if it doesn’t bring about immediate change, because protest builds community. And this is being proved now, in 2026, as the community organizing efforts that began in 2020 are active and mobilizing once again. This time, these groups are working to feed their neighbors and tracking ICE, and they are predominantly made up of women.

Renee Good died because she was one of those women. A woman doing the work to protect her community.

And that matters. You can see it matters. Fox News host Jesse Watters slammed single women for protesting. He said they were doing it because they hadn’t become mothers yet and were channeling a biological urge to “mother” the immigrants. Watters’ rant includes a terrifying line: “Women need to be protected whether they like it or not.” Another Fox News commentator railed against gangs of antifa-trained wine moms.

It’s an interesting contrast with the much-cited statistic of 53 percent of white women who voted for Trump in 2020.

You can hear the outrage in the Fox News insults. It’s an outrage that expresses betrayal. White women were supposed to be on their side. They were supposed to be subservient and subdued.

But they aren’t.

And this is a problem. Because one key basis of anti-immigrant rhetoric has always been the dangers of immigrants to white women’s bodies. This is a lie, of course. Immigrants are not out in the streets raping and killing white women. In fact, statistically the biggest threat to white women is their own husbands and partners. But if the very basis of anti-immigrant rhetoric won’t comply with a campaign of fear, well it makes the real violent actors — the administration — look foolish. This explains Watters’ terrifying comment about protecting women whether they want it or not.

The women were supposed to get in line. Start dating. Start marrying. Start having babies. But women, despite the rhetoric and the trad-wife propaganda, are refusing. They aren’t marrying, they aren’t having kids, and if they are, they’re doing it on their terms. No matter how much David Brooks tells women their independence is are causing the problems with society, liberal white women will not get in line.

“You will be protected!” this administration shouts, “if we have to shoot you to do it.”

Women were supposed to just sip from their Stanley cups and make dinner as ICE invaded the state. They were not supposed to use those Stanleys as weapons and give that dinner to their neighbors.

This, too, answers the question why Minnesota? Because of the stubborn refusal of women to comply.

But behind every reason why Trump would attack Minnesota is every reason why I love the Midwest.

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Trump’s Greenland Play: Rare Earths, Arctic Choke Points, and NATO’s Reckoning

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Following up on the last post about Greenland and the implications it would have with a US invasion which would go well-beyond our frontier (See the article on the Suidice Pact, here), we look at the motives behind the conquest of Greenland. There have been many stories on what Trump has for Greenland that he wants so badly and the strategies that go along with that, such as flooding the public so that they are exhausted, while he stalks his prey. This includes the theory about his working for Putin and filling his war chest, which would constitute treason on both sides of the Atlantic (see this article here). But as you can see in this article by Geopolitics in Plain Sight, there is a lot more at stake than national security. It has to do with rare resources and manifest destiny, among other things:

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What if I told you the real battle for the 21st century isn’t being fought in Taiwan, Ukraine, or the Middle East—but on a massive ice sheet that most people can’t even find on a map?

Greenland is not a joke in Trump’s world. It is not a distraction. It is the place where rare earths, Arctic sea lanes, and missile warning systems intersect—and where NATO’s future and Europe’s sovereignty are suddenly, brutally, on the line.

A New Arctic Map: Why Greenland Suddenly Sits at the Centre

Here’s what they’re not telling you in the mainstream press:

As Arctic ice melts, new shipping routes between Asia and Europe are projected to cut distances by up to 40% and significantly shorten transit times. What used to be the “top of the map”—a frozen wasteland nobody cared about—is turning into a corridor where Russian energy tankers, Chinese cargo ships, and NATO warships all start to pass within range of each other.

And Greenland? It sits on the western side of that corridor.

It anchors the GIUK gap (Greenland–Iceland–UK), the narrow gateway where NATO has tracked Russian submarines for decades and where future Arctic traffic will bottleneck. For Trump, whoever controls Greenland does not just hold an island—they hold the lock on the door between North America, Europe, and Eurasia.

This is geopolitics in plain sight. The map is literally melting, and the pieces are moving.

Minerals and Missiles: What Trump Actually Wants

Let me pull back the curtain even further.

Under Greenland’s ice lie some of the world’s most promising deposits of rare earth elements at sites like Tanbreez and Kvanefjeld, alongside uranium, zinc, and other critical minerals needed for chips, EV batteries, missiles, and satellites. One recent assessment places Greenland eighth globally in rare‑earth reserves, with roughly 1.5 million tons—enough to matter if even a fraction becomes commercially viable.

Stop and think about that for a second. The U.S. knows it is dangerously dependent on China, which still dominates global rare‑earth processing and supplies. Washington has already explored financing Greenland projects to loosen that chokehold. Trump is simply doing what he always does: saying the quiet logic out loud—that if he can pull Greenland into America’s direct orbit, he gets leverage over the hardware of the 21st century, not just the oil of the 20th.

But it gets deeper.

Militarily, the U.S. is already there. Under a 1951 defence agreement with Denmark, the Pituffik (Thule) Space Base in northwest Greenland hosts radar and space‑surveillance systems that feed U.S. missile warning and missile defence. From there, Washington watches Russian submarines cross the North Atlantic and tracks objects in space. NATO diplomats now say the base could be expanded further as part of a wider Arctic posture.

In Trump’s own words, a presence is not enough: he has argued that “you don’t defend leases, you defend ownership,” and that the U.S. must “own” Greenland to stop Russia or China from taking it first.

That is the core of his Greenland doctrine: turn a NATO‑leased frontline into U.S.‑owned territory.

And almost nobody is connecting these dots publicly. Almost nobody—except here.

Trump’s Method: From Real‑Estate Joke to Annexation Threat

Remember? When Trump floated the idea of “buying” Greenland and the world laughed it off as another bizarre Trump headline?

They’re not laughing anymore.

In his second term, Trump has escalated this into an explicit annexation threat. In January 2026 he stated that the U.S. would “do something on Greenland whether they like it or not” and that anything less than control of the island was “unacceptable,” while refusing to rule out military options.

Read that again. The President of the United States refused to rule out military action against a NATO ally’s territory.

The White House has now admitted it is looking at a “variety of options” to achieve this objective, explicitly saying the use of the U.S. military “remains a choice” for the commander‑in‑chief. At the same time, Trump has threatened new tariffs on countries that oppose his Greenland plan, effectively turning support for Danish and Greenlandic sovereignty into a test of whether Europe is a “good ally.”

Inside Washington, the machinery is split. A Republican congressman has introduced a “Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act” that would authorise Trump to annex the island, while a rival “Greenland Sovereignty Protection Act” and a bipartisan “NATO Unity Protection Act” seek to ban any U.S. funds from being used to blockade, occupy, or annex NATO territory, including Greenland. Legal analysts point out that any lawful acquisition would require a treaty with a two‑thirds Senate majority and appropriations from the House—thresholds that look extremely difficult to meet in the current Congress.

In the near term, Trump’s most realistic tools are soft coercion—tariffs, sanctions, and leveraging NATO deployments—while any actual use of force against Greenland would run straight into the new congressional bans being drafted and almost certain court challenges.

This is the pattern: Trump pushes the Overton window towards the “hard way,” Congress scrambles to write guardrails, and U.S. allies are left wondering how much they can trust the alliance when the loudest voice in it is talking about seizing another member’s land.

You won’t see this analysis anywhere else. This is what happens when you strip away the noise and look at geopolitics in plain sight.

Europe’s Dilemma: Shouting “No,” Negotiating “What If”

Here’s where it gets truly fascinating—and terrifying.

Europe, for once, has not stayed quiet. The leaders of all major groups in the European Parliament have issued a joint statement giving “unequivocal support” to Denmark and Greenland and calling Trump’s demands “unacceptable” between democratic partners. They explicitly frame any forced move on Greenland as a challenge to international law and to the basic norms that hold the European order together.

Denmark’s prime minister has warned that an attack on Greenland would “end NATO,” stressing that the U.S. already enjoys access through the existing defence agreement and does not need to redraw borders. In response to U.S. rhetoric, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, and Norway have sent small but symbolic contingents—dozens of troops each—for exercises in Greenland to underline that this is alliance soil.

Legal experts and former NATO officials now warn that any U.S. move to annex Greenland would tear at the spirit of Article 5 and force Europeans to ask, for the first time, whether the main threat to alliance territory is coming from inside the alliance itself.

Let that sink in.

At the same time, Europe is painfully aware of its dependence: the EU relies on U.S. security guarantees, U.S. energy flows, and U.S. technology, and many member states already fear a second Trump term will mean tariffs, secondary sanctions, and political punishment for any sign of disobedience.

Behind the public statements, European diplomats are therefore working overtime on two tracks: quietly engaging Congress and the Pentagon to box Trump in legally, and quietly signalling to Washington that Europe is willing to discuss Arctic burden‑sharing as long as it does not mean a map change.

That is Europe’s trap. If it accepts Trump’s logic—“security needs justify tearing land away from a neighbour”—it will struggle to resist the same logic when Russia applies it in Eastern Europe. If it resists too hard, it risks triggering the first NATO‑versus‑NATO crisis in the alliance’s history.

This is the naked truth they don’t want you to see. Europe is caught between sovereignty and survival, and the clock is ticking.

Greenland’s Voice and the Coming Arctic Century

But here’s what makes this even more explosive:

Greenland is not an empty board that great powers slide pieces across. It is a self‑governing territory whose leaders just publicly said that if forced to choose between the U.S. and Denmark, they “choose Denmark,” and that they will not accept being a bargaining chip. Reporting from Nuuk and other towns shows a mix of fear and anger at the idea of annexation, with many Greenlanders insisting that any future status—greater autonomy, full independence, or something else—must be decided by them.

And then there’s the wildcard nobody’s talking about enough: Beijing is watching closely.

China calls itself a “near‑Arctic state,” has invested in Greenlandic mining and infrastructure, and sees Arctic sea lanes as part of a longer‑term strategy to diversify away from chokepoints like the Malacca Strait. If Europe becomes a new theatre of U.S.–China competition over Greenland—Washington pushing for control, Beijing dangling capital and markets—European states risk being squeezed from both sides while the island’s 56,000 people are forced to live with the consequences.

Trump’s Greenland game is not pre‑emptive defence. It is a push for absolute control over Arctic choke points, mineral supply chains, and missile warning architecture before Russia and China lock in their own positions.

Europe will protest loudly and negotiate quietly, because it knows that in this new Arctic century the fight is no longer only about Greenland’s strategic autonomy—it is a test of whether Europe’s own sovereignty still means anything when the map starts to melt.

The Reckoning You Can’t Afford to Miss

This is not theory. This is the power shift reshaping your world right now.

While headlines chase noise, Geopolitics in Plain Sight delivers the brutal clarity that reveals what’s actually happening. No corporate filter. No pundit spin. Just the raw geopolitical architecture of the Arctic century—the rare earths war, the choke point seizure, and NATO’s existential crisis—laid bare before your eyes.

The mainstream media will catch up in six months. You’re reading it today.

If this opened your eyes to the hidden battle for Greenland, don’t let it stop here. Hit like. Share this breakdown. Restack it so others see what’s coming. And subscribe—because this level of geopolitical insight doesn’t exist anywhere else, and the next revelation is already being written.

The Arctic is melting. The rare earths war has begun. NATO’s reckoning is here.

The only question left: Will you be one of the few who saw the map change before it was too late?

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Additional Resources:

For readers who want to go beyond this breakdown, here are a few key primary sources and deep‑dive analyses behind this piece:

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Trump’s Endgame: Capture Greenland and Destroy NATO

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To understand Trump’s Greenland Fixation, you have to go back to his 1987 trip to Moscow when he first spouted anti-NATO positions that were precisely aligned w/ the KGB. He even boasted about it in newspaper ads!

These are the statements made by Craig Unger in an article written on January 13th. Trump’s obsession with conquering Greenland has many purposes, aside from his claim of national security. The island has rare minerals uncovered. And his thirst for dominance in the Americas is well known. Yet his obsession comes with his disdain towards NATO, the organization that the US and European allies created in 1945. And this has to do with his decades long ties with Russia (Soviet Union before 1991). In the piece presented below, Trump’s conquest is a collaboration with Putin which serves as a fork: gift the Russian dictator with the most precious resources and destroy the alliance of NATO. Already Trump is now in a trade war with eight of NATO’s allies for defending the island controlled by Denmark.

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I have read EVERY BOOK he has written over the years and he sheds so much light on so much truth to DJT.
As a rule, I try to avoid re-upping material I’ve written before. But occasionally it is unavoidable because we are locked in a long term battle—a war, of sorts, with Russia— that transcends the mind-numbing news cycles that are on rapid rotation and frequently obscure what is really going on. And to understand that war, you have to understand how it started.

I’m referring to the origin of Trump’s policies of seizing the president of Venezuela, of threatening to takeover Greenland, of abandoning Ukraine and God knows how many other overtures that threaten to destroy NATO, the Western Alliance, and overturn the entire world order.

Yes, the world order.

Let that settle in for a moment: Since the end of World War II in 1945, the United States—Republicans and Democrats alike— has had a policy that helped foster strong democratic institutions, strong market economies, and a powerful military alliance in Europe. To be sure, it has had its failures and controversies—Kosovo, Libya, Afghanistan, etc. But since it was established in 1945, the Western Alliance has become a fundamental cornerstone of the world we live in, and, especially with regard to Europe, it has been incredibly successful.

To millions of Americans, NATO, the Western Alliance, and foreign policy initiative are nothing more than vague abstractions. But in this very rare case, the United States implemented policies that were spectacularly successful. Whether it is consumer goods, travel, or military allies, Europeans were our friends.

Until now.

That’s because Trump wants to take over Greenland, an autonomous territory that is part of Denmark. And since Denmark is a NATO ally, Trump would, by attacking it, militarily or other means, in effect be destroying NATO and throwing away the most successful foreign policy alliances in American history.

All of which means he would be fulfilling Vladimir Putin’s wildest dreams. From a geo-strategic point of view, it’s nuts.

So where the hell did Trump get the idea to do this?

Well, I discovered the answer nearly ten years ago when I wrote House of Trump, House of Putin, and I reported that Trump’s articulation of this policy, or one very similar, originated in 1987, almost immediately after he returned from his first trip to Moscow.

The first hint that something untoward was going on surfaced on July 24, 1987, just after Trump returned from the Soviet Union, when an article appeared in a highly unlikely venue, the Executive Intelligence Review, that strongly suggested something mysterious was going on between the Kremlin and Trump, : “The Soviets are reportedly looking a lot more kindly on a possible presidential bid by Donald Trump, the New York builder who has amassed a fortune through real estate speculation and owns a controlling interest in the notorious, organized crime linked Resorts International. Trump took an all-expenses-paid jaunt to the Soivet Union in July to discuss building the Russians some luxury hotels.”

Donald Trump running for president? That sounded ridiculous. At the time, he was known largely as a brash playboy who had started making a killing in real estate. Moreover, the Executive Intelligence Review was an obscure publication that was the voice of the late Lyndon LaRouche, a conspiracy theorist who the Washington Post characterized as “an extremist crank,” so the idea that he would be running for president was hard to take seriously. Nevertheless, the EIR was also said to have strong ties to the Kremlin. And in this case, it happened that they were right.

At the time, thanks to his mentor, Roy Cohn, the dark, Satanic prince of American politics, Trump had hooked up with political strategist and lobbyist Roger Stone, who was cut from the same ethically challenged cloth as Cohn. Under Stone’s tutelage, on September 1, 1987, Trump suddenly went full steam ahead promoting his newly acquired foreign policy expertise, by paying nearly $100,000 for full-page ads(see above) in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and New York Times calling for the United States to stop defending allies who were taking advantage of it.

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EU Leaders Unite Against Trump’s Tariff Threats

European leaders have pledged to maintain unity in response to an unprecedented development: President Trump has threatened new tariffs unless Denmark agrees to sell Greenland to the United States. This escalation has significantly heightened tensions between the US and Europe. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen underscored the European Union’s determination to defend its […]

EU Leaders Unite Against Trump’s Tariff Threats

Trump is imposing additional tariffs on eight European countries ( including Germany) for (get this) defending Greenland! The EU and US are now at heads again. Details in the article:

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