One of the challenges with Donald Trump’s tendency to say outlandish, implausible things is that it can be difficult to tell when it’s a distraction and when it’s serious. Unfortunately for Denmark, it seems that Trump’s obsession with taking over Greenland appears to be the latter. According to a report from the Financial Times, a call between Trump and Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen went sideways, and now the Danes are freaking out.
The story goes that Trump and Frederiksen spoke on the phone last week for about 45 minutes in what was expected to be a bit of a feeling-out between the two parties, given Trump’s very public declaration that he would like to take Greenland off Denmark’s hands. There apparently weren’t a lot of pleasantries exchanged before Trump got aggro.
While Frederiksen reportedly expressed a willingness to cooperate with America, potentially allowing the U.S. to set up shop for military bases and dig up the island’s wealth of mineral reserves, that was not enough […]
One of the good things about Trump is that he is showing us who we really are, and have been for the past 20 years and probably 40 years or so. The unmasked bullying is refreshing in its own way as Americans can no longer pretend to be something else. This is what an Empire in decline looks like. Desperate attempts to regain past glory instead of internal reforms to reinforce the order and Justice which should be the Republic. Don’t like what you see? Then you’ll have to change the structure. Think outside the box.
And Greenland is only part of it. What about his plans to take back the Panama Canal??? There he’s planning to send US troops! Is Panama a member of NATO? If they are, will NATO step in to prevent No.2’s ridiculous actions?
Somehow, someway No.2 has to be stopped from his egomaniacal plans that the rest of the US doesn’t believe in—nor does the rest of the world!