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(DIR) Post #B22vxiytipMouLDDl2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T15:56:05Z
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#Europe draws red line on #Greenland after a year of futilely trying to pacify #Trump
While many European leaders’ reactions to the #Venezuela raid were muted, there have been forceful rebukes about the Trump admin’s greediness on Greenland.#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #greed #InternationalLaw https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/07/trump-us-europe-greenland/
(DIR) Post #B22w8e8u3IdF5Q6GqO by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T15:58:05Z
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For the last year, European friends-turned-frenemies of the #UnitedStates have delicately navigated one shock after another, hoping for the best as #Trump threatened to lay waste to the #GlobalOrder.
When Trump scolded #NATO #allies, lambasted #Ukraine’s president, laid on #tariffs & framed ratified #treaties as conditional deals, the go-to play by #Europe was to placate—with #military #spending pledges, #trade concessions, disciplined summits, in language scrubbed of #morality or judgment.
(DIR) Post #B22wEF0OQP0QrVmsFs by donray@mastodon.online
2026-01-07T15:59:03Z
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@Nonilex When I hear "red line," I can't help but think about Biden and Rafah. Biden, apparently, used disappearing ink. Hope that's not the case here.
(DIR) Post #B22wUc3gTvjYze8Kno by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:02:03Z
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It wasn’t always elegant, or dignified, but the policy of strategic acquiescence seemed to be working, *sort of*. #US arms kept flowing to #Ukraine, an all-out #trade war was averted & #Trump deigned to say some nice things about #NATO.Then came the strikes on #Caracas, explosions that echoed in capitals around the world. Governments that spent years preaching #restraint, legality & #multilateralism found themselves scrambling for words to express unease without triggering #Trump’s fury.
(DIR) Post #B22wmiSdPsMg3wR6Su by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:05:18Z
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The precarious strategy of managing #Trump, rather than confronting him, looked more exposed when the president & his inner circle revived their talk of “getting” #Greenland & even floated the idea of #military action. To European ears, it sounded less like bluster than a retrograde worldview now backed by unvarnished American might: #power over process, #leverage over #law, #loyalty conditioned on utility.#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law #sovereignty #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22wu5VG8z0PYQB9VI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:06:39Z
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“It’s approaching a full-on existential crisis,” said Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for #Europe at political risk consultancy #Eurasia Group. “It could be far greater than #Russia invading #Ukraine because Russia is an adversary. Now, it’s the guarantor of European #security undermining European security.”#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #US #Greenland #Denmark #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #NaturalResources #sovereignty #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22x8M3tNNxwxpBIDQ by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:09:14Z
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Where many European leaders’ reactions to the #Venezuela raid were muted, caveated or outsourced to #legal abstractions about the #UNCharter, European leaders on Tuesday came out with uncommonly forceful rebukes about the #Trump admin’s greediness on #Greenland.
#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22xFUodEByw8mRrQu by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:10:31Z
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The PM of #Denmark, a #NATO member, said a #US action on #Greenland, a territory of the kingdom of Denmark for >300 years, would be the end of the #alliance. Leaders of #France, #Germany, #Italy, #Poland, #Spain & #Britain closed ranks with Copenhagen, issuing a joint statement that Greenland’s future is a matter for “Denmark & Greenland, & them only.”#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #NaturalResources #sovereignty #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22xRn9YsJUUUM6Kqe by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:12:45Z
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#Denmark & #Greenland have stated emphatically, & repeatedly, that the huge #Arctic territory — sparsely populated with 59,000 mostly #Indigenous residents & boasting potentially rich deposits of #RareEarth #minerals — is not for sale. Greenland is officially designated as an #autonomous region, & residents say they have no intention of living under the yoke of a new #colonial ruler.#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law #sovereignty #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22xaOC92TFxgiPQNE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:14:18Z
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#Trump, posting on Truth Social on Wednesday, seemed to bristle at suggestions that he was endangering #NATO, boasting that he had pressured #allies to raise spending. “Most weren’t paying their bills, UNTIL I CAME ALONG,” Trump wrote. “I, respectfully, got them to 5% GDP, AND THEY PAY, immediately. Everyone said that couldn’t be done, but it could, because, beyond all else, they are all my friends.”#delusional #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Greenland #Denmark #Europe #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22xjwCHzL7zkb1tmy by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:16:02Z
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“RUSSIA AND CHINA HAVE ZERO FEAR OF NATO WITHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AND I DOUBT NATO WOULD BE THERE FOR US IF WE REALLY NEEDED THEM,” #Trump continued. “EVERYONE IS LUCKY THAT I REBUILT OUR MILITARY IN MY FIRST TERM, AND CONTINUE TO DO SO. We will always be there for NATO, even if they won’t be there for us. The only Nation that China and Russia fear and respect is the DJT REBUILT U.S.A.”#delusional #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #US #Greenland #Denmark #Europe #NATO #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22y0kZiS70Od00JyC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:19:01Z
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On #Greenland, however, conflicting signals from Washington, have only heightened the anxiety.Secy of #State #MarcoRubio on Monday told lawmakers in a closed briefing that Trump’s goal is to #buy Greenland from #Denmark, playing down #military action. But on Tuesday, White House press secy Karoline Leavitt said #Trump & his team are “discussing a range of options” & that “utilizing the #US military is always an option at the commander in chief’s disposal.”#MafiaState #geopolitics #Europe #NATO
(DIR) Post #B22yF77rPF8kccp9km by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:21:40Z
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A day later Speaker of the #House #MikeJohnson downplayed the likelihood of force.
“The #US always has #military options for everything,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday. “I think with #Greenland it’s very clear that we are working through diplomatic channels.”#Europe had been riding out #Trump’s shocks, betting there would be limits. To many, those bets now look much riskier.#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law #NaturalResources #sovereignty #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22ySekrgXrKgYWeX2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:24:07Z
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#NATO has survived clashing #allies before. Greece & Turkey, notably, have been in a standoff since Turkish forces occupied northern Cyprus in 1974. But, as Rahman noted, the #US, NATO’s wealthiest & most powerful member, was instrumental in mediating that rift.“Now it is causing it,” he said. “NATO can’t survive a forceful #annexation. The #alliance would be meaningless even if it continues to exist on paper.”#Trump #MafiaState #geopolitics #Greenland #Europe #NewWorldOrder #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22yd9GD7Z9SC0BrdI by FinchHaven@sfba.social
2026-01-07T16:25:59Z
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@Nonilex Let me very blunt here:I have absolutely *no* sympathy for Europe, the EU, or NATOTrump has been on the International stage for 15-20 years?Trump should be a known quantity:he is a profoundly disturbed, acute narcissist *and* a serial, pathological liarThis should be nothing new to any adult European leaderInstead they've been playing footsy with Trump, trying to pretend that if they just let him have his way a little, he'll go away and leave them aloneDidn't work, and Europe has no Plan BTime to face the reality you've all helped create#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #greed #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22yoaS6MYwFiCCs6K by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:28:04Z
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Tensions over Greenland’s status were already escalating even before the #Venezuela raid.…After the Caracas operation, the rhetoric grew edgier &—following #Trump’s effective takeover of a sovereign neighbor—far more believable.
White House deputy chief of staff #StephenMiller said Tuesday that the “formal position” of the #US is that #Greenland should be American, for national security reasons, &, that essentially, it was Trump’s for the taking.#MafiaState #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law
(DIR) Post #B22ytB8RuzYodmChXM by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T16:28:53Z
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@Nonilex This is beyond pathetic.Just call him Rover and send him to Kristi Noem.
(DIR) Post #B22z0VsDDFvQzB6etk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:30:14Z
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“Nobody’s going to fight the #UnitedStates militarily over the future of Greenland,” #StephenMiller said.Miller’s wife posted an image of the American flag superimposed on a map of #Greenland with the caption “SOON.”
“It’s clear that some people in & adjacent to the administration felt empowered by the success of the operation,” said Heather Hurlburt, an associate fellow in the Americas Program at Chatham House, the London-based think tank.#Trump #MafiaState #geopolitics #NATO #law
(DIR) Post #B22zFHUSyFCain2d3g by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:32:38Z
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Hurlburt cited a retired #US general who viewed the #Trump White House move in #Venezuela & its fixation on #Greenland as reminiscent of teenagers playing the geostrategic board game Risk.
“Once you start down the road of the #MonroeDoctrine or the #DonroeDoctrine, or whatever we’re saying now, you look at a map of the #WesternHemisphere, & there is Greenland,” she said.#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B22zMlC4vsC6s80Uoi by PG19582@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T16:34:08Z
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@Nonilex why hasn't Congress acted to stop this absurdity? He is completely out of control, running amok and everyone just placates him.
(DIR) Post #B22zziyp658VIeO1a4 by Eetschrijver@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T16:41:08Z
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@Nonilex Basically, this is geopolitical pussy-grabbing. Which they supposedly "let you do" when "you're a star".
(DIR) Post #B230jji8iBzet5WUAi by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T16:49:34Z
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@Nonilex Because now it's them in the gun sights...nothing said till then.They let him act out.
(DIR) Post #B230zynyMO08KmzrZQ by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:52:32Z
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Whether its gaming or grasping, European leaders face unpalatable choices. One is to stick with the unified hard line that emerged in recent days, making clear that any move on #Greenland could trigger a response by European #allies — not against #Russia or #China but, unthinkably, against the #UnitedStates.#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B231H5rXNEHR95pBvk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T16:55:38Z
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Invoking the #NATO treaties collective defense clause, known as #Article5, under which an attack on one member is regarded as an attack on all, requires the #unanimity of all 32 #allies. The #US, of course, would reject any plea for help by #Denmark — effectively neutering the #treaty.
“Article 5 did not anticipate that the invading country would be a member of NATO,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told reporters asking about bill in #Congress to prohibit #Trump for acting in #Greenland.#law
(DIR) Post #B231uc3zaLzSJCUjUO by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T17:02:47Z
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#Military experts say #Denmark & #Greenland would stand no chance against American #military might. In reality that is nonstarter in every way; political analysts across the board agree with #StephenMiller that no one will go to #war over Greenland. #Europe is too dependent on the #US militarily & economically to risk a true break.
#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #WarPowers #sovereignty #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B23255mlvwQzO1R9tI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T17:04:41Z
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But the mere prospect of such conflict only highlights how much more difficult it is now for #US #allies to toe the line with #Trump. That, too, could lead to a drastic deterioration of the transatlantic #alliance if not its end, analysts say.“Many European countries are still seeking to ride both a European and an American horse,” Rahman said. “That may become impossible.”#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Greenland #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B232MWiZ3ONbq0mYue by TomDB@mastodon-belgium.be
2026-01-07T17:07:43Z
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@Nonilex That’s why Europe has a similar clause in another EU treaty.
(DIR) Post #B232eqP0bbjE6KMz9E by cainmark@mstdn.social
2026-01-07T17:10:46Z
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@Nonilex Really? Like Ukraine didn't stand a chance against Russia?
(DIR) Post #B232jprO371xrp1VmS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T17:12:02Z
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Another option would be to make a deal on #Greenland — a sale or lease, with expanded access to #mineral rights, & #US role in #security. In the event of a crisis, “the rest of #Europe will lean on #Denmark to make some kind of arrangement with the #US,” Rahman said.#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B2330U7M8l07MCQpwu by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T17:15:03Z
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A #LouisianaPurchase style transaction may be the least likely. Danish #law recognizes Greenlanders as a people with the right to decide their own future, meaning Copenhagen cannot barter the island away even if it wanted to. Any change in #sovereignty would first require #Greenland to choose #independence — a separate #legal, electoral process — before it could negotiate anything with Washington.#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #law #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B233EC73sVovZQpbV2 by kali@discuss.systems
2026-01-07T17:17:28Z
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@Nonilex i am sorry man, but what part of "it is not for sale" did not come through clearly?
(DIR) Post #B233LmrPeMA9ZI8G00 by Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot
2026-01-07T17:18:52Z
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@Nonilex given that the only country to invoke NATO was, drum roll, the USA I think he is assbackwards again.
(DIR) Post #B233aWo9cCdg7rdYoa by energisch_@troet.cafe
2026-01-07T17:21:27Z
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@Nonilex and even if Greenland and Denmark were on the same page and decided together to Trump - what about EU and neighbours? They would be affected, too when suddenly Greenland has lots of air traffic since some crazy guy wants to build a golf court on the melting glacier. Let alone all those strategic military and mining stuff they were talking about. It might poison the whole ocean. And we should get a say, too in this case.
(DIR) Post #B233kRcNlXe2vRrLLk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T17:23:21Z
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Some European ofcls are arguing quietly that the pushback coming from #Europe capitals may be counterproductive. A flat “no” never sits well with #Trump, they point out, & his most hard-line supporters delight in turning up the volume whenever the White House is challenged.
“This administration, when provoked, doubles down,” said a European diplomat who spoke on the condition of anonymity…. #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #Greenland #NATO #law #Congress #InternationalLaw
(DIR) Post #B234nIjVMBYABx7JCq by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-07T17:35:01Z
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Sorry for the drawn out posts, my mom & sister came over & we’re talking at me as I was posting.
(DIR) Post #B234rUlGZrRkehwO36 by ewos1986@norden.social
2026-01-07T17:35:47Z
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@Nonilex for national and security reasons #Alaska should be #Ruzzian again, as it was for hundreds of years. How does that sound to #idiotinchief ?
(DIR) Post #B234uwL6V1fr3XLVyq by Lizette603_23@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T17:36:25Z
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@Nonilex It's okay. It's going to be this or something else the entire year, seems like, everywhere.We just need to keep putting one foot in front of another. Moving forward regardless of how much on any given day.You're aces.
(DIR) Post #B234vfS4lwzOyBxDay by PG19582@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T17:36:34Z
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@Nonilex a "fuck no" would be better! Someone stand up to this insanity.
(DIR) Post #B23514rrhhfZFBb2no by lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social
2026-01-07T17:37:27Z
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@Nonilex No worries - you do a huge public service for this community and it is much appreciated!
(DIR) Post #B2356TXDQ7CdC9Vmcq by CurtAdams@urbanists.social
2026-01-07T17:38:29Z
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@Nonilex They've got it all wrong. A flat "no" and maximum resistance is always the best way to stop Trump, like in the cities of Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland, where he has had to withdraw ICE.
(DIR) Post #B235jNgr5G58MWZXWK by ewos1986@norden.social
2026-01-07T17:45:31Z
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@Nonilex today it’s #Greenland, tomorrow #Iceland, then it’s already #Europe as a whole. If this lunatic lives long enough.
(DIR) Post #B236yiuSZZ4MTGobwG by TomDB@mastodon-belgium.be
2026-01-07T17:59:28Z
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@Nonilex So what is the diplomat alluding to, we live to be bullied into eternity? Allowing him to bully us did nothing good either, he also pushes through. Just goddamn call his bluff! Com’on already.
(DIR) Post #B238Fm9pqkSNQChapk by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2026-01-07T18:13:48Z
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@Nonilex Every European leader or wannabe should have learned in school how well appeasing actual or wannabe dictators works out for the appeasers.If they're too afraid to *say* no to Donald Trump, how would they have the balls to *act* against him?
(DIR) Post #B239VS3eRp5pfeqep6 by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2026-01-07T18:27:51Z
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@Nonilex Sen. Chris Murphy knows better. The US did anticipate how unruly political and military alliances can be. That's one reason it gave itself a veto over collective action in which it refused to join.
(DIR) Post #B23BRinsRiIIM9or1k by peterbrown@mastodon.scot
2026-01-07T18:49:34Z
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@Nonilex what a coincidence! Exactly what Putin wants.And once NATO is defanged he’ll carry on annexing neighbouring countries to Russia
(DIR) Post #B243qICrrgFcdEfphI by oyzmo@social.vivaldi.net
2026-01-08T04:59:03Z
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@Nonilex Greenland i Trump's goto when he does something sketchy (like kidnapping a venezuelan president) - is this the second or third time Greenpand is used to turn away attention from something else? 🤔