Greenland Vs NATO

[motorbiking]

He's certainly in a more precarious position in reagards to Trump, than I, correct.

So tariffs have been imposed across the European nations opposing Trumps' imminent taking over of Greenland?

Thought so. TACO Trump. U-turn Trump. The News outlets have it spot on. Dream on boyo.

got the deal he wanted. NATO boss backed it, Denmark will swallow it and be grateful.

 

[morqthana]

I listen to GB news, nowt wrong with that

As long as you think there's nothing wrong with being lied to.

 

[morqthana]

Absolutely. In the same way I really enjoy reading fiction.

Yeah, but when you read a novel by Robert Ludlum or Tom Clancy you don't think they're describing the world as it really is.

 

[morqthana]

The lefty loonies will be furious over this, they wanted a war with the USA,

That's a ludicrous claim.

 

[noseall]

got the deal he wanted

And a whole lot of ridicule.

. NATO boss backed it

Of course he will, it's in his interests to. As will anyone else that has to deal with the man baby.

I was pleased to see all the nations standing strong against his "Im gonna have Greenland even if I have to take it by force" bullying and tariff threats - hence the TACO. Hence the U-turn. No getting away from it boyo.

Donald Trump's team will act like he has achieved something with an apparent "framework of a deal" on Greenland. But be in no doubt, that's nonsense - and the US president has inflicted serious damage to the trans-Atlantic alliance.

 

[morqthana]

What MAGA don't realise is that, every time Trump does stuff like this, he makes the USA weaker. Xi will be laughing his socks off.

 

[morqthana]

He is way more sensible than you give him credit for. The man is not crazy but a very cool and calculated leader, one which we should look up to and admire rather than snub him at every opportunity. If only we had a leader like that. Think on !!!

 

[noseall]

Through the "Trump whisperer", NATO secretary general Mark Rutte, the Danish and Greenlander positions have essentially been reiterated to the American president.

During a face-to-face meeting in Davos, pre-existing commitments in the 1951 US-Denmark treaty were reemphasised and European nations re-committed to increase their own defence of Greenland.

When they did precisely this last week, by literally sending senior military officials to Greenland, Trump interpreted it as a provocation against him and issued the tariff threat.


"I'm so bored of this now…" one European ambassador told me over the weekend, such is the level of weariness over the American president's antics.

New deal my arris, lol.

 

[motorbiking]

So..

Denmark keeps most of Greenland and thanks Starmer for his support, America gets a nice deal for bits of Greenland and the UK pays 35bn to Mauritius who don't even have an army to rent back islands that we previously bought and owned anyway.

good job

 

[morqthana]

I think that's what biker meant when he said 'controls agenda'. Perhaps he meant controls bladder - or not?

Or controls the minds of people who go onto the Internet to praise him?

 

[noseall]

So..

...Trump still looks like a monumental man baby on the world stage, correct.

And has ended up with pretty much the same as he had before old TACO-Uturn-Trump, made himself look like a monumental bell end, in front of bewildered world leaders.

He's just as big an embarrassment now as he was before.

 

[noseall]

Nonsense. All the sensible news outlets and sensible folk are outwardly tittering at his man-baby foolishness and are inwardly pi$$ing themselves.
He’s no further forward than any normal diplomatic chat would have yielded, without the puerile narcissistic blarney.

 

[morqthana]

... MAGAs.

 

[MNW67]

I think he'd know the details.

Of course, Rutte knows the details. But he's not going to share them on live TV. Basically, he is just humouring the sad old codger. Elsewhere on Sky News, Mark Stone has the real story:

Of course, Team Trump will spin this as another blinding example of the president's "art of the deal" playing out; like they achieved something.

But be in no doubt, that's nonsense. It's half show, half ineptitude, which is deeply damaging to the trans-Atlantic partnership. America under Trump is less reliable by the day. And the damage is lasting.

There is no "framework of a deal". Not yet.

Donald Trump may claim there is, but that's only because he needed a way to back down from his threats when he realised that he wasn't going to be able to own Greenland.

"Is this just Trump's off-ramp? No actual framework of a deal yet?" I asked one diplomat at the heart of it all. The response: "Exactly."

The penny had dropped in his head, it seems. He realised his Greenland ownership plans were more than just unpopular at home (among his own side too). They were seen as self-defeating, undeliverable and frankly mad.

So where next? Both sides will look for a middle ground that doesn't hand over Greenland to America. There is plenty of space for ideas and creative thinking - there always was if only the American president was willing to listen.

The reality behind Trump's Greenland 'deal'

Donald Trump's team will act like he has achieved something with an apparent "framework of a deal" on Greenland. But be in no doubt, that's nonsense - and the US president has inflicted serious damage to the trans-Atlantic alliance.

news.sky.com

 

[motorbiking]