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This time, Trump’s threats to Europe look deadly serious

Some hope his moves on Greenland are a ploy to force Europe to take Arctic security seriously. That seems highly optimistic

Never before has a Truth Social post generated such anger and fear across the European continent. The message: Europe’s largest economies will have to pay an additional 10pc tariff, rising to 25pc in June, until Greenland is part of the United States. On Monday, the author, Donald Trump, reiterated the threat and vowed that he was 100pc committed to executing it if Washington’s European allies didn’t get with the programme.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

EU is splintering

Europe is headed for another civil war. They had two in the previous century, the Great War (rebranded later as World War I) and World War II. This one splits the East from the West as the Eastern countries trapped by communism under the Soviet Union do not want to be part of the Western countries foolishly chasing communism and embracing the Muslim invasion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Joe Varner: Praising Beijing’s ‘new world order’ a costly misstep for Carney — and Canada

Prime Minister Mark Carney did not misspeak in Beijing. He chose his words carefully, and therein lies a severe problem.

When a Canadian prime minister praises the idea of a “new world order” while sitting in China, he is not engaging in neutral diplomacy. He is endorsing language that carries an extremely specific meaning in Beijing and an unmistakable warning signal in Washington. For a country whose security and prosperity depend on solidarity with the United States, with whom it has had a historically challenging relationship, Carney’s comments carry significant risk, if not real damage.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Greenland, USA

Does Europe still have an ally in America?

European politicians had little rest this weekend after Donald Trump’s announcement on Saturday that he would be imposing punitive tariffs on the eight countries that had sent troops to Greenland last week. From 1 February, 10 per cent tariffs will be slapped on goods entering the United States from Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland. They had, Trump said, ‘journeyed to Greenland for purposes unknown’ and he accused them of playing a ‘very dangerous game’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Europe, European Union, Greenland, USA

Canada must stand with Europe in its defence of Greenland if we know what’s good for us

NATO is facing one of its gravest internal crises since its founding, and Canada is facing its own moment of truth.

President Donald Trump’s demand that Denmark hand over Greenland to the United States goes far beyond his late-night posts on Truth Social. It is a deadly serious attempt by the alliance’s dominant power to carve up the territory of a fellow NATO member.

This is not the first time NATO has been shaken by internal division. But unlike past crises, this one strikes at the very rule that has underpinned Western security for 80 years: that borders are not revised by coercion.

I’m just not buying the elite narrative that I should defend their right to abuse us as serfs just because they’ve wrapped themselves in the flag.

I won’t be signing up to fight for open borders, depressed wages, unaffordable everything and precarious access to medical care even if they throw in a shitty ChiCom EV.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Greenland, USA

Why Trump will beat divided Europe and weak Britain over Greenland

Britain and Europe appear hopelessly weak in the face of Donald Trump’s threats over Greenland.

European efforts to calm the mercurial US president’s desire for the Arctic island with a joint military mission to the region have backfired.

Mr Trump is now warning that he will hit the UK and its European allies with tariffs unless Denmark sells him Greenland.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Trump leaks texts, threatens Macron and trashes Starmer

Donald Trump has published private messages from European leaders after threatening to impose new tariffs on several EU countries over his demand to purchase Greenland.

In one, Emmanuel Macron pleaded with the US president to scale back his threats against the Danish territory and offered him a dinner in Paris.

Trump Shares Map of US Including Greenland, Canada, Venezuela

President Donald Trump has shared an image, seemingly AI-edited, that shows him sitting alongside a map of the U.S. that includes Greenland, Canada and Venezuela as he speaks with European leaders.

The picture, which Trump posted on Truth Social, appears to be an edited version of a photograph taken when leaders—including French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen—went to Washington, D.C., in August 2025.

BBC live stream – ‘No going back’ on Greenland plan, Trump says, as EU chief vows ‘unflinching’ response

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Trump says he will ‘100%’ carry out Greenland tariffs threat, as EU vows to protect its interests

Donald Trump has vowed to “100%” follow through on his threat to impose tariffs on European countries who oppose his demand to take control of Greenland.

European allies have rallied around Greenland’s sovereignty. Denmark’s foreign minister emphasised the US president cannot threaten his way to ownership of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper reiterated the UK’s position that the future of Greenland is for “Greenlanders and for the Danes alone” to decide.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

It is time to invoke the NATO Treaty’s Article 4

In the current geopolitical environment, and particularly in the wake of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, we have seen frequent references to NATO’s Article 5: the “one for all and all for one” obligation of allies to assist one another in the face of attack.

Less attention is paid to the article of the North Atlantic Treaty that immediately precedes it. Article 4 stipulates that “The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.” Once Article 4 is invoked, it would prompt a meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NATO’s permanent ambassador-level body) to consider and respond to this threat. This provision for collective consultations has rarely been invoked, but last September, both Poland and Estonia on separate occasions triggered an Article 4 meeting in light of hostile Russian actions.

The author is a Pugwash Peacenik.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA, WTF?

‘Europe won’t be blackmailed,’ Danish PM says in wake of Trump Greenland threats

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says “Europe won’t be blackmailed”, as she and other European leaders continue to weigh their response to US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats over Greenland.

Trump says he will impose new taxes on eight US allies – Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK – in February if they oppose his proposed takeover of the autonomous Danish territory.

He insists Greenland is critical for US security and has not ruled out taking it by force – a move that has drawn widespread criticism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Western alliance hangs in balance as Europe stiffens itself against Trump’s threats

Greenland, with a population of fewer than 57,000, might not seem to be the territory on which the future of the relationship between Europe and the US, the viability of Nato as the world’s most successful defence alliance, or even the fractured relations between the UK and Europe would be determined.

But battlefields are sometimes the product of chance, rather than choice. It now feels as if Donald Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on eight fellow Nato states for sending troops last week to support Greenland’s sovereignty may be one of those clarifying moments in which Europe had no option. Successive European leaders condemned Trump’s blackmail and intimidation on Sunday and they sounded as if they meant it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Trump’s Greenland threats show Europe must prepare for Nato’s end

Yesterday, Trump shocked Nato allies with a threat this weekend to impose tariffs on Denmark and a range of other Nato allies if they refuse to cede Greenland to the US. In response, the former Danish prime minister and Secretary-General of Nato, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, told the Financial Times that: “Since childhood, I have considered the United States as the natural leader of the Free World. I’ve even spoken about the US as the world’s policeman… Now we see the United States use a language that’s pretty close to the gangsters that they should control in Moscow, Beijing etc.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, NATO, USA

Canada plans to send soldiers to Greenland as show of NATO solidarity with Denmark

Canada has drawn up plans to send a small contingent of soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with NATO allies in the face of threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to acquire the semi-autonomous Arctic territory, two senior government officials say.

The officials told The Globe and Mail that the Canadian Armed Forces are awaiting final political approval from Prime Minister Mark Carney before sending the soldiers.

Germany already bugged-out – German soldiers leave Greenland

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Greenland, USA, WTF?

Lexington Institute Explains the Exact Event Which Caused Trump 45 to Want to Acquire Greenland

 

In a Fox News interview on Thursday, Denmark’s foreign minister [finally admitted that] Trump has a point on China and Russia’s threat to Greenland. Indeed, none other than the intelligence service of Denmark itself warned last year about Russian and Chinese military goals toward Greenland and Arctic.

Let’s be very clear: There is only one conclusion to be drawn from this: when Danish politicians, leaders, and media outlets mocked (or demonized) Trump administration leaders while pooh-poohing American worries about the threat from China and Russia as being “delusional”, they were lying. They were lying to the Americans, they were lying to the Danes (to their own people), and (perhaps insert “and/or” here) they were quite possibly lying to themselves. 

h/t X — Formerly IB_Joe

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Greenland, USA

Canada weighs sending soldiers to Greenland as show of NATO solidarity with Denmark

Over representation of “White” hands merits a hate crime complaint.

Canada has drawn up plans to send a small contingent of soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with other NATO allies in the face of threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to acquire the semi-autonomous island controlled by Denmark, two senior government officials say.

The officials told The Globe and Mail that the Canadian Armed Forces is awaiting final political approval from Prime Minister Mark Carney before the soldiers are flown to Greenland.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Greenland, USA