The Daily Populous Monday January 5th, 2026 evening edition
Authored by politico.eu and submitted by Imaginary-Candy7216

Tusk’s warning came after U.S. President Donald Trump revived his threats to take control of Greenland, the self-ruling Danish territory that he has long coveted. “We need Greenland from a national security situation,” the American leader told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday.

“We will deal with Greenland in about two months. Let’s talk about Greenland in 20 days,” he added, without giving more information about what he meant.

Those remarks came after the U.S. launched strikes on Venezuela and arrested its leader, Nicolás Maduro, in an audacious nighttime raid. The dramatic operation raised fears in Europe that Washington could attempt a takeover of Greenland, prompting Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to issue a stern rebuke.

Annexing the Arctic island would make “absolutely no sense,” she said Sunday, with fellow Nordic nations Norway, Finland and Sweden expressing their support.

The EU’s response to the U.S. intervention in Venezuela has been somewhat varied. High Representative Kaja Kallas called for “restraint” in a statement that garnered the support of 26 member countries, minus Hungary.

Spain, meanwhile, split from the EU and joined five Latin American countries in a far more forceful statement slamming Washington’s attack on Venezuela’s sovereignty and calling for the nation’s natural resources not to be exploited, amid Trump’s pledge to take over its oil fields.

While most EU member countries have issued their own cautiously worded statements urging respect for international law, Italy struck a more approving note, calling military action “legitimate against hybrid security attacks.”

But Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was scathing, saying the U.S. incursion in Venezuela was “further evidence of the breakdown of the world order,” and in a Facebook post on Monday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said the “liberal world order is in disintegration.”

AardvarkOk4359 on January 5th, 2026 at 11:59 UTC »

Trump has single handedly ended any trust allies had in the US, where will it end?

fitzgoldy on January 5th, 2026 at 11:51 UTC »

The EU needs to wake up and start being way more active helping Denmark.

Instead of taking months to think about thinking about writing a softly worded letter suggesting they will think about sending a strongly worded letter.

narkoface on January 5th, 2026 at 11:51 UTC »

This is like a bad fanfic of a WW3 plot, which is just a rehearsal of the second installment, only with different characters and upscaled action. USA (Germany) and Russia (USSR) agreed to divide Europe (Poland) among themselves and began invasion from both fronts but than the former turns on the latter out of bloated ambitions and the underdog is helped by other nations, like China and co. (allies) on the basis of "enemy of my enemy is my friend" ~Directed by JJ Abrams~