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President Trump said Wednesday that he was calling off tariff threats that he had issued in an effort to secure American ownership of Greenland, saying he had reached a framework agreement with Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, over the future of the icy Danish territory.

The announcement on Mr. Trump’s social media network came hours after he told European leaders in Davos, Switzerland, that he would not settle for anything less than the United States taking ownership of Greenland — while rescinding a threat to invade it. Mr. Trump had promised dire economic and security consequences for Europe if he did not get his way.

Writing on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said Wednesday evening that he and Mr. Rutte had “formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations.”

The president did not immediately give any details of that framework, and notably did not say that the United States would own Greenland, even when asked directly about ownership by a reporter in Davos soon after posting the announcement. Mr. Rutte and the leaders of Denmark did not release details either. NATO did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 104 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

The NYT is still intent on portraying these as a sequence of reasoned policy positions, and not the aimless meanderings of dementia writ large on the world stage.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 33 points 2 days ago

They been doing this since his first term. Basically translating his insane gibberish into things that sound like relatively reasonable statements. They would have whole articles about something he said without a single direct quote from him.

[–] Ruxias@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Yep I'm getting pretty sickened by what I hear on corpo media about this and other recent events. Sanewashing might be the term, but at the least they try to hash out reasonings and strategy and speculation like it's Sunday Night Football instead of the full-blown fascist thrashing that it is. These news orgs stumbling over themselves to take more of the dollary dick, desperate to maintain the thin veneer of civility that has been cultivated by their owners over generations. Fools and cowards the lot of them.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same play, everytime isn't it?

  • Ridiculous threat.

  • A "deal" is made.

  • Capitulation.

  • "Look at what a great dealmaker I am!"

If this is apparent to a dumbass like me, I cannot see why the media cannot simply say it out loud.

[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

The problem is that Venezuela looked just like that too, until the fuckers actually invaded the capital, bombed it, and kidnapped their leader.

So did Minneapolis, now they’re working really hard at starting a civil war.

It’s like you roll the dice, 9 out of 10 times it turns into useless mouth noises and 1 out of 10 they actually do it.

Hard to stay relaxed and laugh about this shit, man.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Or the intentional actions of a person who understands that his insane ramblings can cause stock market drops and that walking back those insane ramblings will cause stock markets to recover, allowing him and his buddies to make more money.