What Became of America’s “Peace President”?

January 8, 2026

Stephen Miller, President Trump’s Jewish deputy chief of staff and architect of Trump’s agenda, is the administration’s voice on American foreign policy. The Jewish voice that speaks for America has announced that it is the “formal position” of the United States government that Greenland belongs to the United States and that no country can prevent Washington from annexing the Danish territory. Miller’s Jewish wife posted online a map of Greenland draped in the American flag. Trump agreed saying Washington “absolutely needs” Greenland. Asked to confirm Washington’s intentions, Miller said that it has been the formal position since the beginning of the trump administration that “obviously Greenland should be part of the United States,” not withstanding the fact that Greenland has long been part of Denmark. Miller questioned Denmark’s claim to Greenland and said that “nobody is going to fight the US military over the future of Greenland.” In other words just as Israel can seize Palestine, Washington can seize Greenland, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Iran and any other country that it wishes.

Miller claims that Washington needs to seize Greenland in order “to secure the Arctic.” By securing the Arctic Miller means preventing other countries from using the waterways and exploiting the resources. Not content with looting Venezuela, Washington has turned to looting NATO countries and the Arctic.

The lawlessness of the Israeli-dominated Trump regime could result in the isolation of the United States and the realignment of Western Europe with Russia.  Stealing territory from Denmark is inconsistent with the NATO treaty that commits the United States to the defense of the integrity of Denmark. The blatant and unapologetic announcement that Washington intends to annex Greenland should make it clear to the Kremlin that there is no possibility of arriving at a peaceful settlement with Washington. If the Kremlin still believes otherwise, the Kremlinl has transformed itself into an insane asylum. What could terminate the Ukrainian conflict is Europe’s realization that NATO members themselves are to be looted by the Trump regime. Europeans will have to question why they are fighting America’s war with Russia and seek instead a security agreement with Russia in order to protect themselves from being looted by the Trump regime.

It is extraordinary that in less than the first week of the new year Trump has put on notice Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran, and Denmark, while taking no meaningful steps to end Washington’s conflict with Russia in Ukraine. As if this aggressive agenda is not enough, the Trump regime is provoking China with the sale of hundreds of missiles to Taiwan that can be used to attack Chinese cities. Clearly, Donald Trump has emerged as anything but a “peace president.”

The Best of Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week’s first outside columnist, columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, contributor to the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, and columnist for the main French and Italian newspapers, and for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. He served in numerous academic appointments in US universities and was  appointed to the William E. Simon Chair for Political Economy at Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies where his colleagues were Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James R. Schlesinger (one of his former professors), and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer. His article, “How the Law Was Lost,” was published in the January 1999 Cardozo Law Review.