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Trump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US

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What's with all the nationalism all of a sudden by the left? I mean, is a new flag that big of a deal? Will their lives be changed forever?
Considering the state of the USA health care system alone, the change would impact most people.
 
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Signals for drones in the middle east are routed from the USA through Ramstein to the drones. In other words, the USA is being more cost-efficient by using infastructure in other NATO countries.
But we can build the same infrastructure in a more politically cooperative country.
 
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But we can build the same infrastructure in a more politically cooperative country.
What country do you propose? If we are abandoning our allies, what is the next move?
 
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If we are abandoning our allies, what is the next move?
This is a matter of opinion because I feel our allies abandoned us a while back for not preparing themselves for the future, and left us to fight two superpowers. What person in their right mind would think China would be friendly to us as we turned them into a superpower?
 
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Considering the state of the USA health care system alone, the change would impact most people.
I am not sure there's any upside for the residents of Greenland in this deal.
 
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europe right now, "Ohhh no...anyway China lets finish this trade deal so we don't need the US."
Socialists alike... Whatever happened that is causing them to grow closer together, I want none of.

I see it in Australia too, with constant law-making and ever increasing restriction.

...I fear we're losing them. They've surrendered. Liberty is seen as meaningless...
 
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Socialists alike... Whatever happened that is causing them to grow closer together, I want none of.

I see it in Australia too, with constant law-making and ever increasing restriction.

...I fear we're losing them. They've surrendered.
Maybe we'll come around if you threaten us a little more and put some more tarriffs on our wares.
 
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europe right now, "Ohhh no...anyway China lets finish this trade deal so we don't need the US."
It's actually Mercosur. Europe finalized the Mercosur Agreement this very week.
 
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Why on God's green earth do you think I would care what Lenin thought about anything?
Well, it may give you an answer to the question you asked in post #13.
I am always pleased when I can reduce ignorance a tiny little bit. :)
 
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Maybe we'll come around if you threaten us a little more and put some more tarriffs on our wares.
Indeed.
Trump seems to believe that you catch more Europeans with vinegar than with honey.
 
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Well, it may give you an answer to the question you asked in post #13.
I am always pleased when I can reduce ignorance a tiny little bit. :)
You can study Marxism, and praise Lenin by referencing his work to your own efforts in Greenland, and you can partner-up with China.

...The irony in your post, about reducing ignorance is nauseating.
 
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Yet you support the taking another country by any means, whether they like it or not.

How odd.
What do you know about liberty, Bradskii, by supporting Danish Imperialism?

Pot calling the kettle black?
 
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Yet you support the taking another country by any means, whether they like it or not.

How odd.

Yes, we have the liberty to forcefully control the world and it's resources.
 
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Pity the president has antagonized Denmark and our other allies precluding us from expanding our presence there when before that could have been done with little more than some emailing.
Huh? We already have more troops in Greenland than Denmark does. I think it's pretty clear that if we wanted to expand our defense presence there would be no objection. We don't need to own Greenland to do pretty much anything we're likely to want. This is Trump's equivalent of Putin's desire to own Ukraine.
 
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