“They can get everything they want working with Denmark.”
Trump’s desire to take Greenland is “bizarre", given that the US can already station troops there, says former UK national security adviser Lord Peter Ricketts.
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@hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP
Do not appease, appeasement has never worked in history - they just keep coming back for more!
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@Flowermanc48
Do not appease dictators.
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@lindonesc
But it has nothing to do with security. It's about real estate and blackmailing like the Mafia
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@chrisgermann6658
Don't get it twisted, this has nothing to do with defense but everything to do with betrayal and unlimited access to someone else's recourses. And the way i see it NATO exists in name only at this point. Europe / UK / Canada must begin to de-couple from this unhinged country.
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@TabletMini
Never obey a bully!
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@davidberrell4725
You can’t reason with a Narcissist.
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@dortemarkvardsen
SOON the US will be surrounded by enemies; Europe in the east, Canada in the north and China-Russia in the west 😊 Good luck Americans - you gonna need it. A Scandinavian
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@GinoPalitelli
So trump withdrawing US troops from Alaska to Minnesota 4 km away from Russia and not afraid to be attacked, but worried that russia might attack Greenland ...?
What a BS
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@lours6993
When will the UK understand that ‘the Special Relationship’ never existed and certainly has no existence to be salvaged today? They have always held the UK in contempt and played you to get what they wanted, just like Charles De Gaulle always said.
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@grayjohn6742
The Times backs Farage. Farage backs Trump. The Times needs to have a good hard look at itself. Spinless newspaper.
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@JosephStealin
It’s almost as if they want the resources and international law is fake
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@Europefirstofall
USA closed most of its bases in Greenland……not Denmark!
Its about …….the EPSTEIN FILES😊
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@jdo1014
Problems at home? Start a conflict...
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@rodneyskennedy3163
His obsession with Green land is just trying to deflect from the release of the Epstein files.
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@GreenGoblinDK
Greenland is about Trump's ego. He likes to grab things. I dont thing you can apply normal logic to this guy. He wants Europa to submit and bend the knee.