Opinion
Ken Timmerman’s Threat Watch, www.kentimmerman.com 1-10-25
| President Truman negotiated a Treaty with Denmark in 1951 that guaranteed the United States’s right to build and maintain military bases on the island and to move forces freely on its territory. Under President George W. Bush, the United States agreed to amend and supplement that treaty in 2004, limiting the U.S. presence to Thule Air Base. President Trump wants to renegotiate the deal. Why? Because Russia and China pose a real and present threat to Greenland, and from Greenland, to the North American continent. China, which has no territories above the 54rd parallel, is now claiming to be a “near-Arctic power.” This July, the U.S. Coast Guard encountered Chinese navy ships in the Bering Sea. China has been sending ice-breakers to the Arctic for five years, and more recently has started using the Northern Sea Route to receive crude oil shipments as an alternative to sending its tankers through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Neither Denmark nor the European Union can defend against Russian or Chinese aggression against Greenland or the Arctic. Only the United States can — but that protection comes at a cost. Serious European thinkers understand this. The French and German puff-pastry politicians do not. But much worse for the Euros than U.S. designs on Greenland is the way Trump has simply sidelined the EU, showing them to be irrelevant in world affairs. He has his sights focused on serious countries such as Russia and China, and on containing potentially serious threats such as North Korea and Iran. I suppose that’s why Trump was chatting away with Obama during Jimmy Carter’s funeral service at the National Cathedral, while neither of them deigned to even acknowledge the presence of Kamala Harris, who was scowling away just in front of them. Obama is a serious politician. Harris is not. In Iran this week the top military official in charge of the Syria debacle, Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati, actually admitted that Iran had been thrown back on its heels. “We were defeated and defeated very badly,” he said, in remarks that traveled the world via social media but never appeared in Iran’s state-run media. Meanwhile, in California Governor Gavin Newsom’s phony environmentalism is burning down the house to save the smelt, while in Washington, Biden is breaking the toys like a kid who has been kicked out of kindergarten. Hey Gavin, wanna know what real men do on their vacation? They cut brush. I discuss this as well as China’s COSCO invasion of the United States on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida, area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. If you miss us live, you can listen to the podcast here. Yours in freedom, Ken PS: I also discussed the situation in Syria recently with Christian Broadcasting Network correspondent Gary Lane. You can watch that short video here. |
| Ken Timmerman’s 14th book of non-fiction, THE IRAN HOUSE: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue, can be ordered by clicking here or by viewing my author’s page, here. Raising Olives in Provence, can be ordered by clicking here. – Senior Fellow, America First Policy Institute (current) – Republican nominee for Congress, Maryland District 8 (2012) – President & CEO, Foundation for Democracy in Iran, www.iran.org – Nobel Peace Prize nominee, 2006 Cell: 904-817-8584 NEW NUMBER Follow me on Twitter @kentimmerman Facebook: ken timmerman New personal email: [email protected] Website: kentimmerman.com |
| ShareTweetForwardShareCopyright © 2025 Middle East Data Project, Inc., All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive automatic updates from me. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message by placing “Unsubscribe” in the Subject line. Our mailing address is: Middle East Data Project, Inc.861306 N Hampton Club WayFernandina Beach, Fl 32034 |
