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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

Why U.S. military coercion is unlikely, though Canada should take proactive steps

Should Canadians be prepared for the United States to use military coercion to achieve its goals?

Economic coercion is the more viable choice for President Donald Trump if he presses his objectives in Canada, since he has the means to apply that pressure without the unpopular move of sending in troops, said University of Windsor political science Prof. Jamey Essex

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

From surge in patriotism to fewer US trips – Trump’s impact on Canada

In the year since US President Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term, he has brought with him significant global shifts.

Like many countries, Canada – America’s closest neighbour to the north – has felt the impact and seen a change in the long-standing relationship with its close security ally and trading partner.

Trump has imposed tariffs on several key Canadian sectors and has warned of more to come. He has also referred to Canada as “the 51st state” — a jab that has been met with a mix of anxiety and an uncharactaristically fierce display of patriotism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA

Trump’s latest Western Hemisphere fixation: Canada

The president has intensified his criticism of Canada in private conversations with aides in recent weeks over what he sees as the country’s vulnerability to U.S. adversaries in the Arctic.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is privately ramping up his focus on another target in the Western Hemisphere, increasingly complaining to aides in recent weeks about Canada’s vulnerability to U.S. adversaries in the Arctic, according to two U.S. officials, a senior administration official and three former senior U.S. officials familiar with the discussions.

As Trump’s advisers work toward his goal of acquiring Greenland, the president has privately grown more exercised about what he sees as Canada’s similar inability to defend its borders against any encroachment from Russia or China, specifically arguing Canada needs to spend more on defense, the officials said. They said his push has accelerated internal discussions about a broader Arctic strategy and potentially reaching an agreement with Canada this year to fortify its northern border.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Conrad Black: Formidable Trump changes the world

The violent cavalcade of events in Iran is starting to reveal the new range of aggressive-responsive policy options that U.S. President Donald Trump has developed to replace the obsolete concept of most of his recent predecessors. For 80 years from 1941 the basic framework was defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt in two addresses he gave at the beginning and end of that year in the Congress. In the State of the Union message in January, he warned against those who, “With sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal would preach the ‘ism’ of appeasement.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Trump Admin Was In ‘Discussions’ With Venezuelan Minister Months Before Raid

The White House was conducting back-channel communications with Venezuela’s hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello months before the US operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, and has been in communication with him since then, according to Reuters, citing multiple government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. 

h/t handy n handsome

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Venezuela, WTF?

Why Trump wants Canada – Expansion is America’s manifest destiny

President Trump’s overtures to Greenland might have shocked Denmark, but they certainly haven’t shocked historians of American territorial ambition. Talking about the rendition of President Maduro, Trump called it an example of the “Donroe Doctrine”: a repurposing of the 1823 “Monroe Doctrine” which had declared the Western Hemisphere closed to European interference. It meant that the United States of America, independent for less than a generation, would be the boss of its own backyard. Trump’s interest in Greenland is merely an extension of this.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, USA

Trump’s Gaza peace board angers Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu has objected to Donald Trump’s appointments to a board which will oversee the rebuilding of Gaza.

The White House has started to unveil administrators who will supervise the Strip as part of the second phase of his peace deal, including Sir Tony Blair, White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Mr Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The “executive board” will oversee the postwar management of the enclave with the “board of peace”, which will be chaired by Mr Trump and other world leaders who are expected to be announced at Davos next week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsrael, USA

Minneapolis Equity Report Urged Using Somali Muslim Genital Mutilation to “Learn About Their Culture”

How far did Minneapolis and Minnesota go in urging Americans to abandon their values and accept Somali Muslim ‘cultural values’?

A report from the Hennepin County Medical Center that was posted on the Minneapolis Minnesota Department of Health site was titled “caring for women affected by female genital cutting” or FGM, a Muslim practice common among Somalis of mutilating the genital areas of young girls, “Striving for Health Equity’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Carney Cozies Up to China

Cowboy Carney

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is selling out to China, and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping is loving it.

Over the past few days, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been in China in an open attempt to pivot to China and spurn Canada’s relationship with the United States. In a jubilant press release on Friday, the prime minister’s office declared that Carney is “forg[ing] [a] new strategic partnership with the People’s Republic of China.” The government went on to repeatedly tout this “new strategic partnership,” framing the relationship as entirely overhauled.

Further, Carney announced that Canada is dropping tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles from 100 percent to 6.1 percent, opening the door to importing cheap Chinese cars (heavily subsidized by the communist government) that promise to sink the Canadian car industry. That decision signals a major break from Canada’s previously united stance with the U.S. against such vehicles.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, USA