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

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This whole thing of antagonizing our best allies really bothers the heck out of me.
Well, they can stop feeling antagonized any day now. We don't need to make everything about us all the time.
 
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Name some of our best allies
Denmark suffered the highest per capita casualties during our afghan adventurism that we invoked NATI article five for but what have they done for us lately ?
 
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Well, they can stop feeling antagonized any day now. We don't need to make everything about us all the time.
Just give us everything we want and we will not bother you?
 
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Hello! I don't think many people have a hatred for Russia, baseless or otherwise. I have been to Russia, fine people. We helped Russia when Communism collapsed. But many people do have a distrust for Putin and rightly so. His actions show him to be untrustworthy. Russia and the world would benefit from new and reasonable leadership in the Kremlin. Kind Regards.

Hi there Lismore,

I have been to Russia too, before the iron curtain fell, I also found the people to be friendly.

As far as the President of Russia, he is a man of his word, Russia does not bluff.

When I mentioned baseless hate I was talking of certain individuals in the leadership of the EU.


Hope this makes it to the forum ok, I dropped my tangent board and a few buttons flew away.
 
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Just give us everything we want and we will not bother you?
Just get out of the way, and do your own things. Nobody is stopping Europe from pursuing their own objectives. It's on them that they stand around and complain instead.
 
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What about the security of 620 million people? Does that matter? Should it matter? These are valuable questions.

What would happen to Europe, if the United States became a crippled giant? I think it could be catastrophic.
None of those things require the USA to get Greenland "one way or another".
 
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well thankfully it's pretty much most of the US and world that sees this morality and not what you guys are doing.
Sadly, the majority has no forethought. Just like Ukraine slapped you in the face, no forethought.
 
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None of those things require the USA to get Greenland "one way or another".
If the East end of our missile defense dome is located in another country, it is *not* secure.

...Protecting 620 million lives? I have no idea what that many lives are worth. It may or may not be worth upsetting some people.
 
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If the East end of our missile defense dome is located in another country, it is *not* secure.
Yes, it would be if it was in your military base and in a friendly nation with an agreement for those being there.
 
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Denmark suffered the highest per capita casualties during our afghan adventurism that we invoked NATI article five for but what have they done for us lately ?
Yes, 43 were killed from 2002- 2013. Youd have to pick countries with the right-wing countries over there since the left is always resisting.
 
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Yes, it would be if it was in your military base and in a friendly nation with an agreement for those being there.
What if Russia invaded Greenland? Would the base still be ours?

...If we're going to protect our assets to the fullest extent of our capabilities in Greenland, and treat the whole island as if it were our own... Then that's free total immunity. Safest place on earth.
 
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What if Russia invaded Greenland? Would the base still be ours?
Would this invasion assume that Russia had discovered a magical ability to teleport to Greenland without being detected coming in from a mile away? And how exactly would the response in case it was US territory or not change at all? It would still be NATO territory.
 
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What if Russia invaded Greenland? Would the base still be ours?
Maybe Trump has already arranged it with Putin.
Wouldn’t we defend it along with our NATO allies?
That one little US base has kept Greenland safe for many decades. But the winds are changing with the Bear riding on the Dragon's back.
 
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What if Russia invaded Greenland? Would the base still be ours?

A quote from memory, I can see him now in his braces, the former finance minister (Sweden) Gunnar Sträng Social Democrats.

"If if never was, my grand mother would have crossed the Atlantic on a crowbar."

Yep, those were the days.
 
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Wouldn’t we defend it along with our NATO allies?
You mean like we defended Ukraine. Greenland isn't a NATO member, just like Ukraine, and we see what happened to Ukraine.
 
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What if Russia invaded Greenland? Would the base still be ours?
So to prevent a country taking the place by any means whether the people want it or not you are supporting Trump in taking the place by any means whether the people want it or not.

Has anyone actually thought this through? I know Trump certainly hasn't. But it really looks like some of his supporters haven't either.
 
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