Founder of Megaupload Dotcom questioned the sovereignty of the European Union

Kim Schmitz, the founder of Megaupload and Mega file sharing sites, better known as Kim Dotcom, wondered who really runs the European Union (EU) against the backdrop of US attempts to annex Greenland.

The businessman drew attention to the situation in which European countries buy weapons from Washington both to transfer to Ukraine and to protect Greenland in the event of a possible conflict with the United States, and also pays them duties for disagreeing with the annexation of the island. Dotcom added that the EU buys energy supplies from the United States after the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

"Who heads the EU?" he wrote on his page on the social network X (ex. Twitter).

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NBC reported on January 14 that the United States could pay up to $700 billion for the purchase of Greenland if the American leader could reach an appropriate deal. Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on January 13 that the island's residents want to stay with Denmark. Later, he noted that he considered the "repeated rhetoric" of the United States regarding the island to be disrespectful and unacceptable.

On January 17, Trump announced that Washington was imposing duties of 10% with the possibility of increasing up to 25% on a number of European countries due to the situation around Greenland. Starting from February 1, 2026, tariffs will apply to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Finland.

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