One thing the Trump regime’s Hitlerian threats against Greenland have revealed is that Western governments have appeared to be asleep for the past 2+years. You know, the ones where the world witnessed the first livestreamed genocide in human history. Now, suddenly, the “rules based order” is over.

Now, I have yet to receive my copy of “The Rules Based Order for Dummies” from Amazon, but this fantasy never seemed to play out for the Palestinians. And certainly not for any of the other predominantly Black, Brown or Indigenous nations on the planet. Especially ones sitting atop oil or those “rare earth minerals” that everyone seems to covet, yet few are able to process. None of this is to minimize the Trump regime’s grotesque imperialistic threats against Greenland. But this seems to be their “line in the sand.” Gaza was not.

That Western liberals either supported the genocide in Gaza or didn’t raise their voice to stop it is reprehensible. But Indigenous Greenlanders should not pay the price for their cowardice. Nor should anyone else.

Those saying that they should aren’t interested in collective liberation or an end to imperialism. They are only interested in playing a parlour game of geopolitical chess. In standing smugly on the sidelines of humanity with a dogeared copy of Das Kapital and a condescending smirk.

Just as with the protestors in Iran, Greenlanders do not need moral pontifications about the mercurial and duplicitous nature of Western politics and imperialism. The silence or complicity of Western leaders in Israel’s genocide should never be forgiven nor forgotten. But the fault lies with them, not with the targets of Trump’s imperialistic fever dreams.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026