Chris Unger, in his book ‘House of Trump, House of Putin’ told us how, after Trump caught the attention of Putin in 1987 as a potential President of the United States, Trump returned to the US and had this advert appear in an obscure conspiracy theory journal, Executive Intelligence Review:
The ultimate goal of the KGB was to break NATO.
And Chris Unger reminds us in his Substack today:
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.
The ads, which ran under the headline “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure,” marked Trump’s first foray into a foreign policy that was overtly pro-Russian in the sense that it called for the dismantling of America’s postwar alliance with Europe and Japan and was very much a precursor of the “America First” policies Trump is enacting today. The ad focused more on dismantling our alliance with Japan—a subject of great concern to the KGB at the time—than American relations with Europe, but the argument was exactly the same.
What was particularly interesting about the ad Trump took out was that it came just a few weeks after his first visit to Russia during which the KGB had begun to win Trump over as an intelligence asset. (See The KGB Reels Him In.)
And today, 14th January, 2026:
Denmark and Greenland to face Vance in high-stakes White House meeting
Greenland’s government has said it “cannot under any circumstances accept” Donald Trump’s desire to take control of Greenland, as Nato’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, said the organisation was working on ways to bolster Arctic security.
At the start of a critical week for the vast Arctic island, a largely self-governing part of Denmark, the US president restated his interest in the strategically located, mineral-rich territory, saying the US would take it “one way or the other”.
The US president has rocked the EU and Nato by refusing to rule out military force to seize Greenland, which is covered by many of their protections since Denmark belongs to both.
Greenland’s foreign minister, Vivian Motzfeldt, and her Danish counterpart, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, are due to meet the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, in Washington on Wednesday.
Denmark, which has pointed out that a 1951 treaty already allows the US to significantly expand its military presence in the territory, has repeatedly said Greenland is not up for grabs and it hopes a diplomatic solution can be found.
These Billionaires Bet Big On Greenland—After Trump Took Interest
ByMartina Di Licosa,Forbes Staff. Martina Di Licosa is a reporter covering consumer businessesFollow Author
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Just months after President Donald Trump first expressed interest in the United States possibly gaining control over Greenland, some of the richest people in the world—including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg—began making strategic investments in the mineral-rich island.
Praxis is a company founded by Dryden Brown and Charlie Callinan, with Howard Hughes Corporation founder David Weinreb as Vice Chairman. Praxis describes itself as an “internet-native nation”,[1] and has stated plans to create a 10,000 population city in the Mediterranean.[2][3] Brown has not determined the location of the city[2] and the company’s vision has been called unrealistic.[4]
Trump announces tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland response
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President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the NATO countries who have sent small contingents of troops to Greenland amid the White House’s push to acquire the island will be charged a 10% tariff on all goods sent to the United States starting on Feb. 1.
Sir Keir Starmer and European leaders united in condemnation of Donald Trump’s plan to apply tariffs on several NATO allies until a deal is reached for the US to acquire Greenland from Denmark
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The ultimate insult’: Trump downplaying NATO’s Afghanistan involvement causes distress in UK
More than 150,000 British troops served in Afghanistan in the years after the U.S.-led 2001 invasion, the largest contingent after the American one.
Relatives of British Army Private Douglas Halliday, of the 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, one of the seven British soldiers killed in Afghanistan, line a street as his coffin is driven through the town of Wootton Bassett, England, following repatriation, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. AP
Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers.
In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917
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