00:00Greenland is too close to Russia's north border for Russians to stay different when
00:05Trump threatens to take over the island.
00:08You might expect a revival of old Cold War era fears.
00:13The US is getting closer to our borders.
00:17They are going to attack us.
00:19But that's not what's really happening.
00:23Surprisingly, the old rivalry with the US is all but forgotten as the Kremlin is a
00:29president and much of the crowd cheer for Trump.
00:34Why are they doing this?
00:36Not because they suddenly love America.
00:39They grab an opportunity to push their own agenda or simply join their course.
00:47I'm Elvira Barry and today I want to show you how this Greenland drama is being seen inside
00:53Russia by officials, by the warmonger crowd, by the opposition and by regular
00:59people who mostly treat it like a meme.
01:03Here's our roadmap.
01:06Useful cares.
01:07Why the Kremlin is cheering for Trump.
01:10Warmonger chorus.
01:11What ze patriots make of the possible takeover.
01:16Voice of conscience.
01:18What similarities the Russian opposition sees between Putin's and Trump's methods.
01:24Kitchen table bets.
01:25How ordinary Russians are betting on the takeover.
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01:44Useful cares.
01:48On the surface, it looks like the Kremlin is enjoying the mess.
01:51On January 19, Dmitry Peskov publicly leaned into the idea that Trump would go down in world
01:59history if he resolved the Greenland question.
02:03Not good or bad.
02:04Not legal or illegal.
02:06Not legal.
02:06Just history.
02:07Like, it's a sports record.
02:10That's a signal.
02:12We are not here to shape you.
02:14We are here to watch you break Europe.
02:17And Europe is the real price in this story.
02:20For Moscow, Greenland is useful mainly as a wedge.
02:24The more the US bullies Denmark and the EU, the more NATO looks like a family dinner where
02:31everyone is smiling with their teeth clenched.
02:35Russian commentators and state-friendly media are openly savoring that discomfort.
02:41Kirill Dmitriev, Putin's envoy who shows up around sensitive talks, wrote that the collapse
02:48of the Transatlantic Union is finally something worth discussing in Davos.
02:54That line is basically Moscow's dream caption under a photo of NATO leaders looking exhausted.
03:02Then you have Dmitry Medvedev who plays the role of the loud drunk uncle on purpose.
03:08He's stress testing the popular mood.
03:11He posted on social media that MAGA equals make Denmark small again equals make Europe
03:20poor again.
03:21That gave the domestic audience permission to laugh at Europe's weakness.
03:27Medvedev also joked that Trump should hurry up because Greenland might suddenly hold a
03:33referendum to join Russia and become Russia's 19th region.
03:38This is classic Kremlin humor.
03:41Take a scary real-world annexation, Fred, flip it into a parody and remind everyone that
03:48borders are just clay if you have power.
03:52But here's the part many observers miss – Russia is also uneasy.
03:57On January 20, Sergei Lavrov said Greenland is not a natural part of Denmark, framing it
04:04as a colonial problem becoming more acute.
04:07That's a very specific kind of language.
04:10It's not America is wrong.
04:12It's Denmark is historically questionable.
04:16This is Moscow's favorite move – weaken the morale standing of the other side without
04:22endorsing the grab outright.
04:25At the same time, Russia's foreign ministry pushed back on the constant Western line that
04:31Russia and China are a threat to Greenland.
04:34That's the part Moscow actually cares about – not being portrayed as the villain.
04:40The Kremlin wants to be friends with Trump.
04:43That's why they are openly siding with him on Greenland.
04:48They hope he'll return the favor by letting them take over Ukraine and later over Europe.
04:59What about the loudest self-proclaimed patriots of Russia, the Z-crowd, avid supporters of Putin's
05:06war in Ukraine?
05:07Maybe they see the US stepping up to Russia's borders as a threat?
05:12That would have been logical, but this crowd doesn't really do logics.
05:17They look at Trump fretting in alleys, tossing tariffs around and talking like NATO is optional,
05:24and they hear music.
05:26They enjoy the division in the enemy camp and Europe's humiliation.
05:31Telegram channels like Rybar frame Greenland as another example of Western hypocrisy and
05:36weakness with the same familiar rhyme.
05:39They lecture everyone, and then they do land grabs when it's convenient.
05:46It tells the fellow Russians, the rules were fake anyway, so stop feeling guilty about Ukraine.
05:54War Gonzo plays a similar tune, presenting the standoff as Trump forcing a choice between
06:01Greenland and NATO itself.
06:03The message lands with their audience because it turns the whole thing into a dominance contest.
06:09Who blinks first?
06:11This is also where the memes breed.
06:14Medvedev's 19th region joke did not stay inside the lead circles.
06:18It's perfect meme fuel, quick, shameless, and built on a dark truth everybody recognizes.
06:26Now, Church, you might expect the Moscow Patriarch to jump with some moral language about peace
06:32or sovereignty or traditional values, but in this Greenland wave, the loud religious voice
06:39just isn't there in public.
06:41The story is being dominated by officials, propagandists, and political commentators, not clerics.
06:48And that absence matters because it leaves the emotional framing to the state and the warmonger
06:54telegram culture.
06:56Power is normal, bullying is funny, and Christian values are just a costume people wear until they
07:03need a knife.
07:10When Trump talks about taking Greenland, it's the Russian opposition voices who don't cheer.
07:17They don't even sound surprised.
07:19They sound tired.
07:21Like, yes, this is the direction.
07:24Welcome to the club.
07:26Maxim Katz framed it as a bigger pattern of the second Trump term, a politics of raw leverage,
07:33where allies get squeezed the same way enemies do.
07:37He points out that the methods used by Trump and Putin have much in common.
07:42You bluff, you threaten, you test the room, and you only stop when you meet real resistance.
07:50Alexander Plutchev's channel and the broader liberal media bubble around it, leaned into the
07:57same fear, but from another angle.
07:59Well, if Greenland becomes a stage for tariff blackmail and military signaling, Europe will
08:06get dragged into a crisis that has nothing to do with Ukraine and Moscow will happily watch
08:12the destruction.
08:14There is also a second opposition motive.
08:17They want to expose the Kremlin's hypocrisy in real time.
08:21When Russian officials lecture the West and Denmark in particular about colonialism, it's
08:26not because Moscow discovered ethics.
08:29It's because this vocabulary is convenient today.
08:33It lets the Kremlin look like a judge without admitting it's also an arsonist.
08:40That's why the opposition keeps poking at the same nerve.
08:44Russia cannot condemn territorial bullying in Greenland without accidentally condemning itself.
08:51Kitchen table beds.
08:56Regular people want something simpler.
08:58A clearer signal about where the world is heading and whether the strong can just take what they
09:05want.
09:06That's why this Greenland story spreads so fast in Russia.
09:11It feels like a test of reality.
09:13A big Russian poll on Mail's FOCUSI project captured that mood in numbers.
09:19Over 7,000 respondents took part.
09:22More than 86% said it's plausible Trump will try to get control of Greenland.
09:29Only about 10% said it's not plausible.
09:32And when people guessed the method, they leaned hard toward force.
09:36About 36% expected military presence without direct fighting and about 18% expected a direct
09:44military operation.
09:45Diplomatic pressure and economic coercion were also common guesses.
09:50But the core idea was the same.
09:53Power will decide it.
09:55Not law.
09:56The timeline guesses were even more telling.
10:00Around 36% expected movement in one or two months.
10:06And around 41% expected it within six months.
10:11That's not how people answer when they think something is a fantasy.
10:15Now put that next to the Z-Telegram mood and you see the feedback loop.
10:21World channels post about Denmark reinforcing Greenland and mock it as fear.
10:26However, pro-war outlets frame the crisis as Europe getting its first taste of what it feels
10:32like to be persuaded by a bigger actor.
10:35They don't need to invent the punchline.
10:38Trump did it for them with the two-dog sleds line, which Russian outlets keep repeating
10:43because it's the perfect humiliation soundbite.
10:47Even lawmakers joined in.
10:49Dmitry Novikov, a Duma member, described Trump's talk about a Russian and Chinese threat to Greenland
10:55as trolling aimed at his partners more than a serious accusation.
11:00That kind of comment is designed to do two things at once.
11:05Soothe the domestic audience.
11:08And keep the door open to Trump because Moscow doesn't want to fight with him right now.
11:15So what does ordinary Russia actually feel?
11:18But less rage, more fatalism.
11:22Not this is outrageous, but this is how the world works now.
11:27People are reacting like spectators of a power game, placing bets.
11:32And that's the most dangerous shift of all.
11:35When enough people accept that might makes right is the global norm,
11:39the Kremlin doesn't even need to persuade them anymore.
11:42It just needs to point at Greenland and say, see, everyone's the same.
11:48Now, I'd love to hear from you.
11:51Please, tell me.
11:54What was the reaction to the possibility of Greenland takeover in your circle?
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