Posted on 01/21/2026 5:11:02 AM PST by Navy Patriot
European opposition to President Donald Trump's bid to acquire Greenland and his proposed "Board of Peace" initiative has disrupted plans for an economic support package for postwar Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
A planned announcement of an $800 billion prosperity plan to be agreed between Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S. at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week has been delayed, the report said, citing six officials.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Nobody is in any mood to stage a grand spectacle around an agreement with Trump right now," one official told the FT, adding that disputes over Greenland and the Board of Peace had overtaken an earlier focus on Ukraine at the Davos meeting.
Tensions over Greenland disrupted negotiations on the prosperity plan text this week, the FT report said, adding that the U.S. did not send a representative to a key meeting on Monday evening.
The "prosperity plan" was not being shelved indefinitely and could still be signed at a later date, the newspaper added.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that he would travel to Davos only if documents on security guarantees with the United States and a prosperity plan were ready to be signed there.
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Ukraine would beat whiz the money, to include paying city officials.
For as long as NATO has been, Greenland has always been one of a few for Baltic shops to enter the North Atlantic, complete with Sosus probes.. Why then has it been ONLY THE USA INHABITING ANY SORT OF BASE THERE?
Neutered? EU has agreed to loan Ukraine 90 billion.
The DemoKrat party is really upset! They were counting on Mr. Z’s usual 10% kickback to use those billions in the coming mid-term election.
We will worry about post war when it is actually post war. EU wants to keep it going so they can fund all the damage since Trump started proposing peace there.
The Left: We are doing Minnesota now!
Oh noze, Americans won't get fleeced and frauded so Blackrock, fake NGOs, connected contractors and every other worldwide POS can get their promised lotto money.
Or why many of us wouldn't mind if Russia crushed/killed all opposition and/or threw them all out on their fat, internationalist asses for crimes against humanity.
They are just making Trump’s point that they cannot be trusted to act in the best interest of our security, for all kinds of ridiculous domestic political reasons.
Closer to home, communist Canada is making Trump’s point by cozying up to red china.
Two recent money events for Ukraine. No, not the recent commitment by the EU. Rather, a renegotiation of Ukraine debt that is due in 2026. That number is now about $18 billion. The EU promise of money has to cover that, with most of the rest of that committed promise earmarked for purchase of weapons from European firms, not American firms, assuming those European firms can actually build the weapons without access to neodymium magnets.
The second somewhat surprising money event has to do with Russia moving all of its foreign reserves into gold. This happened over the course of 2025 so the advance in gold has generated substantial profit. As of December 2025 evaluation is on the order of 320 billion dollars in Russian gold reserves. This exceeds the assets currently frozen by European factions.
As Trump said:
Russia is losing soldiers at an unprecedented level, 17 to 1.
Ukraine just got 90 billion from the EU. Therefore it can continue the war for many more years.
RUssia is trapped in a quagmire of its own making and barely survives thanks to massive Chinese subsidies and thousands of Communist North Korean troops. Russia’s gold reserves are now being progressively sold. Its economy was supposed to steam at 4.5%.... but it’s down to 1.1% instead (growth) and it’s still going down into a stagflation or recession... we’ll know shortly.
Ukraine is destroying Russia’s refinery infrastructure, blackouts in Moscow many times this last month. Ukraine know has Europe’s most potent army.
Russia can only aim at civilians in Ukraine. It doesn’t seem capable of doing anything more... while its army gets decimated.
Then why are you advancing it? I try to like Newsmax, honest I do.
I know. Good grief. They talk about this as if the Administration is unable to walk and chew gum at the same time. They can and do multitask.
For the same reason we’re the only country inhabiting over 700 military bases worldwide. Here’s a map of the main ones:
https://ubiqueags.org/map-of-the-week-u-s-military-bases-around-the-world/
We had more bases on Greenland during WWII and the Cold War. After the USSR fell, we closed all but one.
If we think we need more military bases, we can have all we want, thanks to a treaty enacted at the beginning of the Cold War. Trump could have reopened old bases or set up new ones anytime he pleased during his five years in office.
Or perhaps Trump is trying to think ahead 10-20 years.
Volodymoort should learn the meaning of the phrase, “A bird on the hand is worth two in the bush.”
Bottom line Trump has made the Euroweenies very uncomfortable.
In fact I’d say those boys and girls are dizzy, kinda like that Tommy Roe song.
Dizzy
I’m so dizzy, my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
“If we think we need more military bases, we can have all we want, thanks to a treaty enacted at the beginning of the Cold War.”
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The problem w/relying on treaties to secure US security interests on foreign soil should be self evident after Bagram and now Diego-Garcia. Ther are a multiplicity of factors (some foreign; some domestic) that can make treaties inoperable.
Quite likely, Russia’s biggest problem is the direct sanctions Trump slapped on Russian oil companies, abetted by seizures of ships with improper registries, former dealings with Iran, etc. Plus, there’s the global oil glut, with many tankers, legit and not, being used for floating storage. Charter rates for tankers carrying Russian oil have gone through the roof, and if the ship is just sitting as storage somewhere, that’s disastrous. Russian oil exports (actual deliveries) were down to 3.6 million bpd last month (their figures) and the effective price (less transport costs) has dropped to near $35 / barrel. Not always recognized in the nominal figures one can look up online is that buyers have to pay the cost of the oil plus transport costs: If transport costs a fortune, the nominal oil price gets discounted at some point, so the total is still competitive. The charter companies are grinning ear to ear. If people think the defense companies are making a nice profit...
Russia is still stealing gold out of Sudan, so they have some income there.
Our USS Lincoln strike force, a couple days away from the ME, has itself gone dark — it seems increasingly likely Trump is going to whack Iran after all. I’d think that included in that will be pasting drone and missile facilities and storage, plus launchers, in addition to decapitation strikes. The Ukies will shed no tears.
OTOH, Russia’s attempt to freeze out Kyiv and other major Ukie cities (meets the definition of genocide) has been somewhat effective. The Ukies have responded and caused blackouts scattered around in western Russia, but Ukraine does not have nearly enough capacity to create lengthy large scale outages, as Russia has. Ukraine badly needs about $15 billion in electric power generators to create a very widely dispersed source for electricity, to replace much of their grid. I’m a bit surprised that Ukraine’s supporters in the US House and Senate have not proposed a “matching supply” program for generators, with Europe. Ie., we match the amount of generation Europe donates. Trump would look really bad in the eyes of most US voters to veto such a bill.
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