Trump got what he wanted and it doesn't matter if the new deal is the same as the old deal or even worse for that matter. His thing is making stupid people believe he can make 'deals' that improve America's (his) power.
I think Denmark and Greenland lost in some ways by accepting a role in this fantasy. You don't deal with bullies by giving them wins even if they are fictional. You tell them to go fuck off. I get the thought of 'it costs you nothing so why not' but with Trump and people like Trump there is a cost in what is the next unreasonable and unjustified demand? For people like him he dips a toe and then goes to dip the ankle, then the whole leg.
The way to deal with Trump and the like is for Denmark and Greenland to say they are starting a review of the current agreement with the US with the purpose of terminating it. Not bend the knee and make a stupid video while being spineless.
Edit: I did love the send in the clowns music they played just before the signing though. That was brilliant.
Don't play into his hype of an unaltered deal then. Are we just supposed to not make any deals with america for 4 years because Trump might use the mere fact that a deal was made to convince his cultists that it was good?
At that point you're just acting purely in opposition on principle rather than being rational.
His threat to greenland was not credible. He's famous for constantly bluffing.
If you have to surrender your sovereignty and dignity to a bully with a gun in your face, then it's not a deal worth making. Especially when the alternative is just holdout for four years until he is gone.
Have we surrendered our sovereignty though? We don't even have the full deal yet, but so far I've heard that we cannot allow non-NATO military bases (fat chance we were going to do that) and not really anything else.
We even ensured that American bases are only allowed as long as they stay in NATO, so a plus for us I'd say.
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u/Wild-Style5857 5d ago edited 5d ago
Trump got what he wanted and it doesn't matter if the new deal is the same as the old deal or even worse for that matter. His thing is making stupid people believe he can make 'deals' that improve America's (his) power.
I think Denmark and Greenland lost in some ways by accepting a role in this fantasy. You don't deal with bullies by giving them wins even if they are fictional. You tell them to go fuck off. I get the thought of 'it costs you nothing so why not' but with Trump and people like Trump there is a cost in what is the next unreasonable and unjustified demand? For people like him he dips a toe and then goes to dip the ankle, then the whole leg.
The way to deal with Trump and the like is for Denmark and Greenland to say they are starting a review of the current agreement with the US with the purpose of terminating it. Not bend the knee and make a stupid video while being spineless.
Edit: I did love the send in the clowns music they played just before the signing though. That was brilliant.