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An unhinged message to the Norwegian Prime Minister reveals how Trump’s personal grievances are driving U.S. foreign policy, and threatening global stability in the process. Donald Trump sent a message to the leader of Norway that I legitimately could not believe was real. This whole exchange is so utterly humiliating, the country is once again cringing and insisting, ‘I don’t know her,’ while our allies distance themselves. Trump is essentially rage-texting the Norwegian Prime Minister like he’s a dude at the frat party who rebuffed his advances. And blowing up the entire post-war world order responsible for the longest period of uninterrupted peace and prosperity in world history over not getting the Nobel Peace Prize is just as oxymoronic as it is insane. Trump claims that Russia and China want to take over Greenland and only the U.S. can protect it. To be clear, Russia and China haven’t made a move to take over Greenland, which is owned by Denmark, a NATO country, because they know how NATO works. If a foreign adversary invades, they face the full wrath of NATO. That is the whole point of NATO. Trump turns around and attacks his own team, there is no more team. Annexing Greenland destroys the alliance meant to deter the thing he claims to want to deter. Is your head spinning yet? The greatest threat to Greenland isn’t a Russian or Chinese incursion. It’s Trump dismantling the alliance that prevents one. Trump is so susceptible to manipulation by foreign adversaries, because he can’t see beyond whatever megalomaniacal goal is right in front of his face. And that plays right into Russia and China’s hands. What these two want, more than anything in the world, is a breakdown of NATO and the end of its economic and geopolitical hegemony. And they understand that if ever there was a useful idiot willing to help them in their task of dismantling that alliance, it’s Trump. They merely have to appeal to his ego, wax poetic about his legacy if he’s able to accomplish where so many other presidents before him have failed, sit back, and watch the world burn as NATO goes to war with itself. Did people vote for Trump to make us and the whole world less safe? No, they wanted lower prices and all he did was raise them.