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Macron: ‘No amount of intimidation’ will change EU nations’ course on Greenland
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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I'm sorry. But you are incredibly ignorant of how the world works and have far too much faith in your social democratic policies that will be the first to be cut as the world changes. You'll see in another year or two. You should be organizing resistance to this change. Not blindly trusting your superior system.
Good luck mate. Maybe you'll remember this a year from now as you start to notice the decline.
Your claim is completely baseless, USA is going down the shitter, and so is Russia. But when Russia is defeated in Ukraine, the rest of the world will be fine. USA can piss right off, we don't need them. If they continue their bullshit, there are already talk in EU that we may need to invalidate US patents, to take control of our infrastructure. IDK if you are American, but you definitely sound like it. Americans tend to think USA is the center of the world, but they aren't anymore. And their political influence is diminishing fast. In Germany even AfD has denounced Trump after his threats against Greenland.
I have no fear for our future in EU, and I have no fear for our democracy, because we still use our democracy actively, as could be seen recently when we demonstrated against USA, a demonstration that far exceeded anything in USA under Trump on a per Capita basis, despite Greenland doesn't have any impact on daily life in Denmark, and Greenland cost us money because we don't steal their ressources.
Good luck mate. I wish you were right. I really do.
The curse of being a Marxist is that I'm right; but too early. You can save this comment if you want. We can reflect on it in a year or two when your leaders have failed miserably to put up any defense against the American empire.
The American empire is dying. You are right. But if you think it dies without taking every western country with it; well, you don't understand how the last 30 years have worked. Or history in general. You aren't living outside of history, you can't run from what happens when an angry empire lashes out. I'd be preparing and not ignorantly thinking you will weather the storm without any preparation.
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Marxism has been wrong since 1848.
When European social democracys fall apart and cut back on every "right" the working class enjoys. You can come back here and ask me how I saw it coming and warned you.