this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
365 points (99.7% liked)

World News

51910 readers
3084 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Greenland’s prime minister has said “we choose Denmark” before high-stakes talks at the White House as Donald Trump seeks to take control of the Arctic territory.

Amid rising tensions over the US president’s push, Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Tuesday told a joint press conference with his Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, that the island would not be owned or governed by Washington.

“We are now facing a geopolitical crisis. If we have to choose between the US and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark, Nato and the EU,” Nielsen said, adding that the island’s “goal and desire is peaceful dialogue, with a focus on cooperation”.Trump’s pursuit of the island was also a matter of “international law and our right to our own country”, he said.

MBFC
Archive

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Europe is the equivalent of the Democratic party at this point. Just pointing at “bad thing” and going along with it entirely. All while trying to keep the “moral high ground”.

You went too far here. Europe is weak (because it's divided, because EU was never meant to be "strong" and always relied on soft power, because it has to fight all the same enemies as US does) but it's definitely not on the same team as US. Like, not even close. So far EU is keeping the moral high ground for example by respecting it's citizens rights. Some member countries are worse then others but as a whole EU is still far away from becoming an autocratic hellhole the US is.

[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Chat control doesn't sound very much like respecting citizen's rights

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Oh shit, does that mean Europeans will get shot in the face now too? You know, to control their chatting. Like in the USA, if you say "I'm not mad at you", you get shot in the face.

Yeah, chat control is not great, but is FAR FAR FAR from what's happening in the Fascist States of America.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net -3 points 5 hours ago

Which part of it? I read the legislation and I think it does respect citizen's rights. Which paragraphs do you find problematic?