Russia and China fear NATO because of ME: Trump launches ferocious attack on allies as he threatens Greenland invasion

Donald Trump launched a fierce attack on NATO allies just hours after America seized a Russian oil tanker in European waters and a few hours after the United States threatened to invade Greenland.

The president reminded ‘admirers’ of the post-World War II military alliance that ‘most of them don’t pay their bills’ and that only 2 per cent of their GDP is allocated to defence, well below the 5 per cent target set at The Hague last summer.

“Until I get here,” Trump wrote Wednesday morning. ‘The USA was foolishly paying the price for these.’

‘Russia and China have no fear of NATO without the US, and I doubt NATO would be there for us if we really needed them,’ he added.

‘Even if they are not on our side, we will always be on NATO’s side. ‘The only nation China and Russia fear and respect is the USA that DJT has rebuilt.’

The bright side came when the US seized a Russian oil tanker off the north coast of Scotland in another demonstration of its military superiority. Moscow recently sent a submarine to escort a ship smuggling sanctioned oil from Venezuela.

Europe is on edge after Trump threatened to seize the Danish territory of Greenland after capturing Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro early on Saturday.

Britain, France and Italy issued a statement supporting Denmark on Monday after the White House announced it was investigating the President’s plans to seize control of Greenland.

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen upon her arrival at the Elysee Palace on Wednesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to the Elysee Palace on Wednesday

The United States seized the Russian-flagged oil tanker Bella 1 in the North Atlantic waters between Iceland and Scotland on Wednesday.

Dramatic footage shows US special forces attacking the ship after tracking it for weeks in an operation that has escalated tensions with Moscow.

As America cuts off the flow of oil from Venezuela to enemies like Russia, China and Iran, the Coast Guard also seized a second tanker, the Sophia, in the Caribbean this morning.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth captured the world’s attention by saying that the blockade of Venezuelan oil was in full force and that no ship was safe anywhere in the world.

“The United States continues to enforce the blockade against all dark fleet ships illegally transporting Venezuelan oil to finance illegal activities by stealing from the Venezuelan people,” he wrote on X.

‘Only legitimate and legal energy trade determined by the USA will be allowed.’

The Russian Ministry of Transport responded: ‘No state has the right to use force against ships duly registered in the jurisdictions of other countries.’

Trump last week threw decades of precedent out the window in his treatment of NATO allies and Congress.

The president consulted neither party before launching his daring purse-snatch raid on Maduro on Saturday, and now he is further chilling relations by threatening to invade Greenland, a neighbor the United States has vowed to protect since 1951.

Emboldened by Maduro’s capture, Trump praised the ‘Donroe Doctrine’, his own version of the Monroe Doctrine, the 1800s policy warning against European colonialism in the Americas voiced by President James Monroe.

‘They call it the Donroe Doctrine now… American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,’ he told reporters.

This shift was formalized with the ‘Trump Conclusion’ to the Monroe Doctrine, the cornerstone of the National Security Strategy, published last month.

Pictures appearing in Russian media show helicopters approaching the ship today.

American forces capture separate ‘dark fleet’ tanker named M/T Sophia

Ship described as ‘stateless, sanctioned dark fleet motor tanker’

The outcome – meaning a proposal following a previously proven proposition – establishes three non-negotiable pillars: denial of strategic assets, expanded hemispheric borders, and militarized law enforcement.

The seizure of the Russian-flagged tanker in international waters shows that the US now treats the Atlantic and Caribbean as de facto ‘American lakes’, asserting the right to board any ship it believes is a threat there.

For Russia and China, this is a ‘stay away’ sign.

As NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte prophetically joked last summer, Trump is proving to be a ‘dad’ to Europe.

The administration views the presence of China, Russia, and Iran in Latin America as a modern-day violation of the Monroe Doctrine.

China has set up foreign companies to build infrastructure in the region as part of its global Belt and Road strategy to make nations dependent on its services and turn them into debtors.

European allies are scrambling to respond.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said this week that the NATO alliance would collapse if the United States seized Greenland.

‘The international community as we know it, the democratic rules of the game, NATO, the world’s strongest defense alliance; “This will all collapse if one NATO country chooses to attack another,” he said.