Fuck the US, it's time to stand together as Europeans
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As a US citizen, I approve of this position. Fuck this place.
Wouldn't any tariff on Denmark specifically be met with counter-tariffs by the EU?
Last time it was targeted to specific red state exports like Kentucky whiskey too.
As an American, honestly just take us back under control, we fucked the whole thing up, we couldn't do it.
Never shoulda wasted good tea in the Boston harbour
... As an American post tea incident, I never developed a taste for it.
It's good hot, with milk in it, and some oatmeal cookies for yo dippins
It's been a fun trial, but it's time to give the controls back to the grownups
It's 5 past 12 to build up our own Military Industry and have a "Zero-American-Products" Policy in our military.
Many Weapons, Jets and Vehicles are dependent on American Start codes to function for their entire lifecycle.
It was foolish to accept such clauses in the first place
βIt was horrendous,β said one of the people. Another added: βHe was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious, and potentially very dangerous.β
Why does the Danish PM even pick up the phone?
Or if she did by mistake, she can always do what I do with telemarketers who try to sell me shit I don't want: put the phone down on mute and wait until the telemarketer understands nobody's on the line and hangs up.
European politicians' job description has included enduring the sheer stupidity of US diplomacy since forever.
Do you remember when you wanted us to go bomb Iraq because Saudi Arabia bombed you, and when you got told that that's dumb as fuck, renamed fries as a response?
The US has never not been idiotic. It's just on cocaine now.
We've moved onto bath salts and meth from cocaine. It's a whole new level of stupid and the whole world is in for a bad ride.
Some of your politicians and voters seem to have moved on to eating crayons and sniffing glue, though.
But don't worry, ours are following closely.
courtesy.
we're europeans. No need to get down to his (Trumpet's) level...
Sounds like it is truly time to station troops in Greenland to defend against the US. The issue will need to be forced, so Drumpf either backs down, or crosses the line into hostility so the world will wake up from its denial of the danger.
No, Greenland is in the Nato. When the US attacks then half of the us army will be on the offence, the other half on the defence to keep the us army out.
Things are getting ugly really quick
They should just hang up on him. Stop allowing him to take center stage
Put them on hold for half an hour with the lady saying that the call is very important to them.
Go and fuck yourself, Mr. Trump.
Children often react poorly when they're learning a lesson, I imagine this is true for lil pants shittin nazi donny
You see Putin needs to control the NATO base there
The Farce Reich will never conquer Greenland.
Do you want to put money on that? Because I wouldn't.
Trump is crazy enough to do it - or rather the Project 2025 sumbitches who are remote-controlling him in the background, because he sure as hell ain't the one coming up with all those executive orders he's signing.
And while the whole world would scream and shout in outrage, nobody would be able to do a damn thing about it.
He can try, but that would be an attack on the rest of NATO and it would definitely grab the attention of Russia and China that don't want the US monopolizing the Arctic. And there's nothing that puts all existing grievances on pause like a nazi lunatic doing land grabs.
Imagine what kind of scumbag you have to be to even follow the order to invade a place like that? They don't even enter our lexicon most of the time. This is purely imperialism and blatantly so. In this century, to follow orders to invade like that is lunacy, cowardice, and ignorance all in one.
Lol, Russia wants him to do this. Both to foment discontent and to alter the Arctic shipping routes.
You are forgetting that Russia and the US already have territorial conflicts in the Artic, because both claim most of the sea for themselves, and that neither country wants the oil reserves in the hands of the other.
If Trump controlled Canada and Greenland it would bolster the US claim and make it viable for the US to enforce it.
As for China, they benefit from a trade route being divided between several countries, as it's more likely that the international community will end up pressuring Canada to accept an international strait regime if the entire sea is not in the hands of the US.
If there's an invasion NATO will have to intervene. No choice. And it's they don't it's WW3 for sure. Because all the structure that keep a relative peace will fall down.
I am no expert in the exact NATO regulation, but I think in a recent spat between Greece and TΓΌrkiye NATO said that inter-NATO fights do not trigger any mandatory aid from other NATO members.
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Greenland, home to just 57,000 people, is an entry point to new shipping routes gradually opening up through the Arctic; it also boasts abundant but hard to access minerals.
Am I reading it wrong or is "gradually opening up through the arctic" a euphemism for climate crisis effects?
Itβs exactly that. Carriers canβt wait for the arctic to thaw, it is a much shorter and quicker route between the hemishperes. China has been sending containerships through there for a while now.
China has also been buying up land and small harbors to expand in Scandinavia.
"I AM YELLING AND OBNOXIOUS THEREFORE I AM A STRONG MAN WITH REGULAR SIZED HANDS. LARGE HANDS, EVEN."
Trump should rather talk to MΓΊte Egede the prime minister of Greenland π€·ββοΈ
Grim though this may beβonce Greenland's conquered, it can't be long before Denmark is taken over by Tesco.
This is Trump's Poland?
That's pathetic.
How long would it take a coalition of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Poland...or just all of the EU to build as many nukes as Kim Yong Un has? Maybe a week or a month...
Because that seems to be the only way to get any respect from trump and his toadies.
Let me introduce you to Force de Frappe.
Eh, France has too much to lose even in a minor nuclear exchange (Paris), they would probably only use them if their soil was threatened (in which case you have their funny warning nuke policy). We need a full umbrella from all the EU to all the EU, with keys in the hands of different rotating states/officials to make them more than just elected bureaucrats.
Same for the UNSC, probably, a nuke closet to point at when stupid countries do stupid things. Fascists don't respect anything else.
The French nuclear forces are ocean and air based. Thus they could easily cover the entire EU and the French have often asked other EU members to contribute to finance this expensive endeavor... with very little success.
But I don't see much difference between France or any other EU member state. They are all densely populated and would suffer hugely from any kind of nuclear exchange. The entire point of nuclear weapons is that it never comes to that though, and the French nuclear weapons are well equipped as a deterrent due to a theoretical second strike capability.
Fine, yea, it'd be good to just chip in to get ready-to-go state-of-the-art coverage. Maybe they hold back because they don't want to be so beholden to a single country like France at least until the US becomes completely unreliable.
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