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EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'

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Re: EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'

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Post by owebmaster »

lm28469 wrote: post #18
wqaatwt wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Just like Australia is country in itself in the Commonwealth. That’s really not even close. Greenland isn’t even remotely self sustainable without Danish funding. It also has MPs in the Danish parliament. So yes while it technically has self-rule it’s still effectively a colony

> So yes while it technically has self-rule it’s still effectively a colony Being self sufficient or not isn't part of the definition of a colony

Greenland is a colony, Austrália is not. The comparison makes zero sense

Re: EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'

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piva00 wrote: post #37

I believe what Bessent is leaving aside, probably not out of ignorance but for rhetoric sake, is that Denmark isn't alone, alone it would be a small player (while still being disproportionately bigger for its relative size and population) but the Nordics tend to band together, the Nordic Council is one of the oldest and closest alliances in the modern age. With the Nordic Council it becomes 22 million people with a G…

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Re: EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'

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Post by lm28469 »

owebmaster wrote: post #51
lm28469 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So yes while it technically has self-rule it’s still effectively a colony Being self sufficient or not isn't part of the definition of a colony

Greenland is a colony, Austrália is not. The comparison makes zero sense

> Greenland is a colony

But it literally isn't...

> On 1 July 1979, Greenland became a rigsdel (an autonomous territory) within the Kingdom of Denmark.

Re: EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'

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Post by wolvesechoes »

piva00 wrote: post #37

I believe what Bessent is leaving aside, probably not out of ignorance but for rhetoric sake, is that Denmark isn't alone, alone it would be a small player (while still being disproportionately bigger for its relative size and population) but the Nordics tend to band together, the Nordic Council is one of the oldest and closest alliances in the modern age. With the Nordic Council it becomes 22 million people with a G…

> On top of all of that you then have the European Union, in which the majority of members will also put support behind one of its members (notwithstanding the likes of Hungary, and perhaps Slovakia with its latest government).

Please take time to check how different EU countries responded to US threats against Denmark. It is not uniform, even if you exclude Hungary and Slovakia.

Re: EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'

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Post by r721 »

tjpnz wrote: post #28
pzo wrote: post #27

Its so bad that these day such posts are flagged in HN and you cannot have any discussion about it. Feels like censorship and HN not doing anything about it to be at least transparent about providing some stats how many times something got flagged and how flagging algorithm works so we at least have some confidence that it's not abused by bots

I seem to remember having the ability to vouch for submissions like I can comments. But it's never an option for these. Why?

You can vouch when submission is marked "[flagged] [dead]", and this one is just "[flagged]".

Re: EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'

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Post by jleyank »

pjmlp wrote: post #49
jleyank wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Puerto Rico is not a country, today, but is analogous to Greenland. They could vote to become closer to the US or vote to distance themselves. Similar to all less-than-independent regions held by larger countries. Remnants of the age of exploration or before, or the crumbs left from wars. Pushing the me-strong logic to the (absurd?) limit, why isn’t California a country? Or New England? Or the red state swath of the…

Given how MAGA thinks about people coming from Puerto Rico, I would assert they wouldn't manage to grasp that.

Do they realize who actually lives in Greenland and that it’s not green? Or do they think they’ll just deport them all back to where they came from (sigh) and warm the place up?
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