MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - January 19, 2026 - U.S. President Donald J. Trump is moving to secure Greenland, either by a financial settlement or by force.
In this delicate geopolitical moment, nearly the entire Western media is throwing rocks at President Trump’s initiative, giving voice to “leaders” who call it “wrong, unacceptable, insane, mad”.
However, you are never going to guess where we can find a more refined and truthful account of it: in Russian media, and even in the Kremlin.
Russia, one of the extra-hemispheric countries most affected by changes in Venezuela and elsewhere, but where a sober and fact-oriented account of the geopolitical moves can be found: “If Trump gets Greenland he will go down in history as one of the great American presidents.”
“The annexation of Greenland by U.S. President Donald Trump would go down in U.S. history as a huge achievement, political risk consultant and lawyer Adriel Kasonta has told Russia Today.
“It will be a huge win for Donald Trump, because many presidents before saw the strategic importance of Greenland and they wanted to acquire Greenland, but without any successful result”, Kasonta said in an interview on Sunday.
If President Trump acquires the Arctic island for the U.S., “he would succeed in securing the security of Northern America where other presidents in the past failed.”
Kasonta stated that the island “is the only key territory the U.S. needs for securing the Western Hemisphere.”
“It gives the primacy also in securing the supply chains of rare earth minerals that are currently being dominated by China,” he said, adding that the island also has a wealth of lithium and cobalt.
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The Kremlin itself has stated today that “(President) Trump will go down in history if he finds (a) solution for Greenland.”
Spokesman Dmitri Peskov said, “There are international experts saying this, and it’s hard to disagree with their assessment.”