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Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

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Re: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

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Post by saubeidl »

hwguy45 wrote: post #8
saubeidl wrote: post #3

Americans, your Mad King is putting us all in grave danger. Would you please do something about it?

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I am speaking German and I wouldn't call what the US is providing security, nor would I call the rampant propaganda bots free speech.

Re: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

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Post by nibbleyou »

selectodude wrote: post #5
saubeidl wrote: post #3

Americans, your Mad King is putting us all in grave danger. Would you please do something about it?

Unfortunately our federal government is more than powerful enough to take Greenland and mow us all down. I am genuinely sorry that Atlanticism came down to a few hundred thousand of the dumbest Midwesterners we could find.

Don't the Americans have the second amendment to save themselves from their government?

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Post by selectodude »

wyldfire wrote: post #15
selectodude wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately our federal government is more than powerful enough to take Greenland and mow us all down. I am genuinely sorry that Atlanticism came down to a few hundred thousand of the dumbest Midwesterners we could find.

Would that it were so easy to blame the flyover states. Almost half the people who cast votes voted for this - and at the same time voted for the status quo legislators who opt not to keep him in check.

The blame extends equally to everybody who supported this but due to the way American elections are set up, those people on the margins are “how” this happened.

Re: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

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Post by kjuulh »

azan_ wrote: post #19
kjuulh wrote: post #7

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I strongly believe he just wants to secure his legacy. He wants to be the president that increased the land of USA and that's it.

That is my gut feeling as well. I wonder if we're gonna see more expansion in the south americas as well in the coming year..

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Post by mkw5053 »

rendall wrote: post #4

As a US citizen resident of Finland, I am proud of my adoptive country. I have been so far relatively neutral-to- vaguely-supportive of MAGA wrt the culture wars, and I find Trump's posturing on Greenland appalling and disgraceful. Yes, we all know that Trump's MO is to demand something horrendous in order to secure something less horrendous, but there is no path from threatening an ally's sovereignty that leads to a…

This isn’t an aberration, it’s a continuation. Trump has repeatedly done things that would have been disqualifying for any normal president: threatening allies, undermining institutions, abusing power, normalizing coercion. The reason this moment feels different to some people isn’t that the behavior changed, it’s that they’re finally among those bearing the downside. That normalization, enabled by years of “it doesn’t affect me” neutrality, is part of how we got here.

Re: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

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Post by dieortin »

hwguy45 wrote: post #8
saubeidl wrote: post #3

Americans, your Mad King is putting us all in grave danger. Would you please do something about it?

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Even if any of these claims were true (they aren’t) how exactly does that justify the US annexing an EU territory that clearly stated it does not want anything to do with the US?
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