European NATO leaders have issued a joint statement that “Greenland belongs to its people” and it is for the Arctic island and Denmark only to decide on its future, after President Donald Trump’s administration reiterated its wish to take control of it.
The statement said that NATO and its allies had increased its activities and investment to make the Arctic a safe place and that Denmark and Greenland were part of that alliance.
Strongly worded letter. We know this is not what Trump and his ilk respond to. They’re going to have to find some form of material leverage, if they have any, to strengthen the argument.
That’s not so hard. Ban silicon valley social networks. Put a heavy tax on any digital goods and services with a headquarter in the USA. Trump is very sensitive to those. Then move on to put tariffs on physical goods. Cancel orders of USA military products. That’s a good beginning.
Why aren’t they doing these things already? Because Trump has made a deal with the devil so nobody imposes consequences on him for anything ever
Could start there based on the threats alone.
Commented yesterday that America may someday build an Iron Curtain across the Atlantic, but you got me thinking Europe should lead the charge on that.
Expel all Americans, close all embassies, shut down American social media, cut all American imports, do it now. Our Homeland Security Advisor was on TV two nights ago saying, “We’re taking Greenland, it’s ours, nothing anybody is going to do about it.” What more impetus does Europe require to act now?!
It occurred to me that if it was looking like war between USA and Europe, he might threaten that all US companies must cut off all business with “enemy countries”. No more AWS (shut down services), no Windows/MacOS/Android/iOS (push out a disabling update), no access to your Gmail, no payment processing by Visa/Mastercard, root DNS fuckery…