Trump Reaches Greenland Deal
It's huuuuge!
The President posted this on TruthSocial this afternoon:
Details remain scant.
Were I to hazard a guess, given that NATO’s Secretary General has zero authority to negotiate the status of Denmark’s territory, the deal will involve us doing things we could already have done in Greenland pursuant to existing treaties, with no change in the territory’s sovereignty. If so, it would amount to declaring victory and going home. Considering the alternatives, I’ll take it.
There is only one group of people Trump fears and will listen to. The uber billionaires, the Ellisons and Bezos of the world. For once they did something constructive and they stopped the Greenland idiocy. Trump will declare victory and move on to some other kindergarten-level fantasy.
Oh, just wait until the Fool’s Gold Dome is endlessly delayed as the costs creep upward faster than a Xtarship blows up, and for the big mining companies to decline to invest in resource extraction from such a difficult, expensive place (see oil companies and Venezuela), and El Taco will get back to it.
@Lucys Football:
Yup, but it still feels like we are living in the Upside Down. To think that the U.S. almost went to war(!) with most of Europe and other Nations over Greenland. Beyond surreal.
Also, a bit strange that the GOP has gone all in trashing MN and making life as miserable as they can for folks in that fine state.
I am guessing CA was the GOPS first pick this year to give the “MN” treatment, and parts of the state like Los Angeles County got a bit of the MN treatment for a spell (Trump sending the NG/Military to LA, siccing ICE on certain parts of LA county, etc., but that was mostly temporary), but I bet those uber billionaires you mentioned had something to do with the GOP pivoting to a state like MN.
Those uber billionaires love to trash things like California’s high taxes, environmental policies, slam Newsome, and the Mayor of Los Angeles all day long, but what it boils down to is that they know that it would wreck their joy if the President was treating CA like he is MN.
These billionaires are aware that they live in one of the most beautiful and awesome geographic locations on the planet and are able to build their small city sized mansions in areas of CA that most folks in CA would practically kill someone to be able to afford to settle down and just enjoy life in these locations.
Okay, so I got curious…googled how many Billionaires live in MN, and it appears the answer is 3-4, which at first glance sounds impressive until I changed MN to CA and the number jumps to 200-250, which explains a lot. Not to mention how many mega-millionaires reside in this state.
If just 5-10% of billionaires/mega millionaires in this state put pressure on folks in D.C. to leave us alone in CA, that will get most/all politicians to pay attention.
They don’t call the fat f’er “TACO” for no reason.
He seems quite happy, so they probably gave him a 128-pack of crayons, including green and gold to color the land and dome. Gold is the best. It should be Goldland.
@Lucys Football:
I don’t think it’s just the uber billionaires. It’s also guys like Putin that Trump fears, admires, envies, and would like to emulate.
That communique of Trump is absolutely devoid of information and meaning.
So Mark Rutte explained to our immature, incompetent, unqualified tyrant — probably using a picture book with words no longer than four or five letters apiece — that our longstanding, already-existing Greenland treaty already gives the US free reign there, including militarily.
Thereby giving the childish orange pedo a possible off-ramp, to tamp down (empty) impeachment threats from Republicans and placate billionaires angry about this week’s stocks-and-bonds bloodbath.
Embarrassing. And predicted yesterday by the Financial Times (The beginnings of the great Greenland climbdown) after orange man’s demented Davos babble.
Well, thank the Lord Vishnu the Presever for all that.
I still have a small side bet on the Charles de Gaulle strike group having a little cruise around the North Atlantic in the not too distant future.
And Europe will have a thousand or more troops, plus other assets, in Greenland, that could be more usefully employed in northern Norway or the Baltic.
Absolutely f@@kin’ peachy. Not.
And massive damage to the Atlantic Alliance.
All to end up with a “Golden Dome” radar tracking station upgrade that could just have been done without any fuss at all. 🙁
Mark Rutte is beginning to scare me. In a good way. I’ve seen a lot of him in William Spaniel’s videos (Lines on Maps). He looks so unassuming, so harmless. And yet I don’t think Ukraine has a more valuable ally in the West.
I think he is probably really, really good with children.
100% Sure Trump did not write that post. Who did?
Status quo ante tantrum.
Trump has never honored any agreement or contract unless he is constantly placated with ever more extreme tributes.
This may prove to be the exception but I doubt it.
“The entire Arctic region” bit is interesting. I confess Rutte doesn’t impress me in the least. Did he sell Trump a bill of goods which he can’t deliver, involving Finland, Canada and all the other NATO members with interests in the Arctic? I doubt we’ve heard the last bit of sabre-rattling over Greenland from Trump.
Oh, and he’s also talking again about taking the Panama Canal. The Venezuela exercise must have really stimulated his imperial ambitions.
@Ken_L:
Maybe not.
Canada and Norway have both been imdicating some concerns about the area, in different ways, for a while.
Canada has been looking at increasing naval and air capability in the Arctic.
Norway is increasing its forces and hosted four major NATO exercises last year
Finland would certainly love to sell more naval icebreakers, and would probably also be happy to have more NATO observarion/sensor systems up near Murmansk
That’s one reason (among many) why this whole affair is so stupid: the US has been hammering on a door with an “open” sign on it.
And the US military is well aware that army bases on Greenland are not the best way to defend it.
As Trump, once he gets an idea lodged in his silly head, has a pattern of returning to it whatever happens, there’s a good chance he’ll circle back to Greenland sooner or later.
But hopefully it can be off the boil for at least a few months
The sad part is a deal could have easily been made without the mad saber rattling and infantile histrionics. America is an embarrassment under Trump’s regime.
@JohnSF: I see Trump is bragging today that “We’re gonna have total access to Greenland. We’re gonna have all the military access that we want. We’re gonna be able to put what we need on Greenland …”
So nobody knows what he and Rutte actually agreed. As usual with Trump’s “deals”, nothing was committed to writing. But on the strength of these remarks, he’s boasting about getting things America has had since 1951.