When you live in a war, you start to feel things you never imagined were possible.
One of these is that you have the impression that you are competing for attention.
Ukraine is only one of many wars, I know that. But at some point, every other conflict in the world starts to feel like a “rival.”
It is not because we stopped caring, but the knowledge that memory is oxygen.
My country survives because the world still remembers that we exist. Because people all over the world keep saying our name.
So I write from a place where forgetting is deadly.
Every life lost in any war is urgent. Every one. Yet when you live under bombs, your instinct is to guard the light that remains on you.
And then Greenland happened.
It seemed so distant. Arctic maps, north pole, something almost abstract.
But when I listened to the words of the president of the United States, I felt the danger before I understood the words
I had heard that language before.
When that man talks about taking Greenland, he does not talk about people.
He talks about control, power, assets.
He talks as if consent were optional and sovereignty a technical detail.
That is how invasions begin.
It is exactly how Vladimir Putin spoke about Ukraine.
Security, destiny, strategic need.
The same cynical voice explaining why someone else’s home should no longer belong to them.
The same certainty that power creates permission.
In that moment, Greenland stopped being far away.
Greenland became Ukraine.
We may be so far away in the map, but the colonial logic does not change with latitude.
This broken logic only needs appettite and confidence.
It needs a sick leader who sees the world as a board and countries as pieces.
Someone who mistakes strength for entitlement.
I live inside its consequences that follows this thinking.
Maps turn into targets, agreements become jokes.
A lawless world returning one speech at a time until it eventually becomes another “new normal”
Greenland is not an idea. It is people and history.
It needs to be respected just because it exists.
This is not about choosing which suffering matters more, but to recognize the same disease when it appears again.
Refusing to pretend it is anything else.
From a country that was told it did not really belong to itself, I am saying this clearly:
Leave Greenland alone.
Believe me, I know where this road goes.
—Viktor
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