The Irish Politics Newsletter

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Europes Precarious Situation

Possibly the end of NATO

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The Irish Politics Newsletter
Jan 12, 2026
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Europe’s new foreign policy toward Donald Trump’s America can be described as performative grovelling on a superpower scale, marked by routine bowing, smiling, and pretending it’s all part of the EU’s plan. The NATO table these days resembles an christmas dinner where Uncle Sam is telling everyone he owns the flashiest house, the flashiest car, and has just brought back the purest bags of cocaine from his recent trip to South America, and they’re all wondering just how much he put up his nose before he came to dinner. South County Dublin cocaine fiends high on Venezuelan snuff would be more tolerable dinner guests than Trump right now.

Take Greenland. The world’s largest tundra, famous for ice, isolation, and fewer people than West Cork in the middle of winter, somehow became an object of Trumpian rage-lust.

Greenland is no joke to Trump; it is a frozen aircraft carrier parked on top of the Arctic and pointed at Russia and China, at least that’s what he tells people. What he really se…

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