President Trump appears to have shut Russia and China out of Greenland for good. But he left the door open to the power the Bible warns about most.

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At the United Nations yesterday, Trump signed a permanent security pact with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen that they called a “win-win-win.”

• America already had very favorable terms for its military presence on Greenland, and you could argue Trump might have improved them without causing the offense that he has.

Nevertheless, the new deal has its pluses. It eliminates ambiguities in the old deal and has no end date. It remains in place even if nato falls apart or Greenland votes for independence from Denmark.

• It lets the U.S. expand Pituffik Space Base and build two new bases, at Narsarsuaq in the south and Mestersvig on the east coast. It spells out in more detail what America’s military can do, including rights to overflight and to maritime and undersea access. It also names the Golden Dome missile-defense system as a shared goal.

Its central aim is to lock out America’s adversaries. This is probably the biggest improvement over the old deal.

• Non-nato states are barred from establishing a military presence and even from controlling Greenland’s critical infrastructure or extracting resources. U.S. approval is needed for countries like Russia and China to establish a significant economic presence. This shuts the door on China’s mining ambitions.

But look who the treaty lets in. The military ban applies only to non-nato states. That means Germany and every other European ally face no restriction under the agreement.

• The investment ban exempts all nato members, all EU states and a category the treaty doesn’t define: “nato partners.” European interests can take control of Greenland’s critical infrastructure and mines, and under this treaty Washington has no say.

Europe is already moving in. In January, at Denmark’s request, a German military team deployed to Greenland alongside Swedish, Norwegian and French personnel specifically as a show of resistance to Trump’s rhetoric about controlling the territory. This month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Nuuk and unveiled a €200 million EU investment package, including money to develop Greenland’s critical minerals. Yesterday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz praised the new U.S. deal and pledged that Germany’s partners “can count on the support of Germany.”

Trump sees the threat from Russia and China. He is blind to the threat from Germany. He has bolted the front door—and handed Europe a key.

The Bible warns where this leads. God promised Abraham’s descendants they would “possess the gate of [their] enemies” (Genesis 22:17). That promise was fulfilled when Britain and the United States took control of and built the world’s strategic sea gates.

• Greenland guards the passage between the Arctic and the Atlantic, and its significance as a sea gate is growing, as President Trump recognizes.

• God gave America this blessing long ago, and America let it slip. During the Cold War, the U.S. operated 17 installations on Greenland with more than 10,000 personnel. It drew down significantly in the 1990s and 2000s, and today its last active base, Pituffik, has only 150 troops. We simply walked away.

Credit Trump for recognizing this as a mistake. But the fact remains: God warned that disobedience would reverse the blessing. “And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates …” (Deuteronomy 28:52).

• Russia and China will play a role in that besiegement—but Bible prophecy is clear that the primary enemy America will fall victim to is a German-led European power.

Trump says, “From now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland.” He doesn’t realize that he has just secured it against the wrong adversary.

UN Summit Takeaways

The United Nations General Assembly opened yesterday with the traditional speeches by world leaders on how to tackle the world’s problems. Some points of note:

• Iran decision-point: United States President Donald Trump said he was weighing whether to “annihilate” Iran to finish his war. Meanwhile, on the sidelines of the same event, his peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner negotiated with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, mediated by the prime minister of Qatar, the first Iran-U.S. meeting since June. A deal is still his preference because America lacks the will to carry out the threat to “annihilate” Iran.

• A UN first: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attended the General Assembly. This is believed to be the first time the U.S. has allowed the leader of a country it is at war with to attend the meeting.

• The future of AI: As concerns of the danger and difficulty of controlling artificial intelligence mount, President Trump said he “totally rejects” any idea of global controls over the development of what he called “super intelligence.” AI magnates Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Clement Delangue will attend today’s emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

• Nuclear inconsistency: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Japan, as “the only country to have ever suffered atomic bombings during war,” has a “mission” to help build a “world without nuclear weapons.” This has been a major UN goal for decades. Yet Takaichi’s plea comes as the U.S., which hosts the UN headquarters, assists countries like Saudi Arabia and Syria with nuclear programs that many worry could be weaponized.

World leaders founded the United Nations in 1945 to prevent the next world war and lead the world toward peace. Herbert W. Armstrong, editor in chief of our predecessor magazine, the Plain Truth, attended its founding conference and judged that the UN “was destined from its inception to end in total failure.”

Over 80 years later, the General Assembly’s opening again demonstrates how far short it falls from fulfilling its mission. The chapter “The Disunited Nations” in our free booklet He Was Right shows how Mr. Armstrong knew this would happen and what the UN’s future holds.

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