Norwegen stellt sich Trumps Forderungen nach dem Friedensnobelpreis

Isaac Stanley-Becker and Simon Shuster: “Jonas Gahr Støre, the mild-mannered prime minister of Norway and the scion of a wealthy industrial family, was returning home from a ski outing one Sunday last month when he decided to dash off a text message to Donald Trump. Composing it from the car, he proposed that the leaders talk to find an off-ramp from the looming crisis over Greenland, the semiautonomous Danish territory that the American president has been publicly threatening to seize.

“Trump’s campaign poses a threat not just to Greenland and Denmark but also to NATO. The day before Støre’s text, Trump had vowed to impose tariffs on a handful of European countries that had sent soldiers to the Arctic territory in a show of unity with Denmark. The Norwegian prime minister suggested to Trump that they ‘deescalate,’ entreating him, ‘so much is happening around us where we need to stand together.’ The message was co-signed by another Scandinavian leader, Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland.

“Two hours later, Støre was sitting at his desk at home when Trump’s reply arrived. “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Trump wrote…

“The exchange came up this weekend when we interviewed Støre on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. We were speaking about NATO, Arctic security, and the state of transatlantic relations. The now-infamous text exchange matters for all three. Trump had previously cited U.S. national security as the rationale for acquiring Greenland. But his message to Støre displayed a much more personal motivation—essentially a fit of pique at not being lauded by Norway’s most prestigious institution. What was it like, we wanted to know, to receive such a message from the American president, the leader of Norway’s most important ally?

“‘What did I think?’ Støre said, raising his eyebrows. ‘I thought, *Well, it’s just bringing the debate to a level where we don’t solve problems*.’ That seemed like an understatement, but he continued. ‘I’m not going to engage in a shouting match,’ he said. ‘I’m not going to respond to it.’ Støre did reply to Trump, he told us, sending back a short message that said, as he paraphrased it, ‘I take your message; I still think it’s useful to talk.’

“In his first extended remarks about the back-and-forth, the prime minister told us that he was not surprised by the grievance-filled communication because he’s familiar by now with Trump’s fixation on the Nobel Peace Prize. He has repeatedly told the president that pressure won’t help his cause, given how prize decisions are made.”

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At this point NATO might become history and should NATO actually disband, it’s gonna cause a huge structural geopolitical power shift, revamping the geopolitical landscape. Any thoughts on this possible outcome?