US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3 has emboldened him to proceed with the annexation of Greenland, a Danish-owned, self-governed territory, spelling the effective end of NATO and furthering Russia’s war aims in Ukraine, experts tell Al Jazeera.
“The move on Venezuela illustrates the Trump administration’s determination to dominate the Western Hemisphere – of which Greenland geographically is a part,” said Anna Wieslander, Northern Europe director for the Atlantic Council, a think tank.
“If the United States decides to attack another NATO country, then everything would stop – that includes NATO and therefore post-World War II security,” Frederiksen said.
“The pandering to Trump has been an element of our strategy over the last year, leaving observers hoping, but not entirely trusting, that another element of the strategy is preparing urgently for the final rupture with the United States,” Giles said.
Giles told Al Jazeera that Europe’s best option was to place a military deterrent on Greenland now, believing that putting allied troops in the Baltic States and Poland after 2017 deterred a Russian attack there.
I think EU should cut off US completely and BRICS should form then EU and BRICS should do trade. Ban all US social media and boycott anything that’s made in US
Europe just finally signed a deal with Mercosur (that’s the B in BRICS). Europe is also negotiating one with India. And it’s increasing sanctions against Russia. BRICS is just an annual show off conference with zero substance.
BRICS is just a propaganda thing, it’s all it will ever really be. Most trade happens between countries near to one another, though sometimes there’s cultural similarities countries can come together on. The BRICS countries are all over the world, they all speak different languages and have very different political systems and interests.
Brazil is a democracy in South America Russia is a fascist regime in Europe and Asia India is a democracy in Central Asia China is a fascist regime (that pretends to be communist) in Asia South Africa is a democracy in Africa
Some of these countries have more trade and closer relations with western countries than with each other. China and India occasionally exchange gunfire over border disputes. Brazil has other trade agreements in South America which are way more meaningful. South Africa is similar.
It’s just some fantasy of internet contrarians that have fallen for the “liberal democracies are bad actually” bullshit and want some weird group of countries that are going to… well no one knows.
And LOL at the EU wanting to do trade with Russia right now. Did you even think about what that R in BRICS stood for?
There’s one thing common among all of them. They were all exploited by the west.
So you believe the Trump zero sum game view of the world? Wealth is entirely about resources, and people don’t create value?
I did not say anything like that in my comment above. That’s an entirely new sentence.
The image you posted portrays large pits in some places in the world, with large stacks of resources (gold presumably) in other parts of the world.
That is how Trump understands the world. You seem to think the same way.
What you’re both missing is the fact that people create value. Gold doesn’t actually improve people’s lives, it’s the products and services that are produced by people that make your life better. Your understanding of economics is out of date by about two and a half centuries.
Russia? China? How?
The British Empire got China addicted to opium to take all their silver. The opium was grown by slaves in India.
Russia, despite being a northern nation, isn’t in the western nations club, because of communist history. Capitalists hate communists because they don’t want to lose power.
I mean they don’t call it the Century of humiliation for nothing lol. Yeah Russia doesn’t make sense though.
During the 90s, Russia went from standards of living comparable to the west to the third-world shithole it is now. We’ve never seen a drop in life expectancy on this scale outside famine and war. This was due to the “shock therapy”.
I know what happened in the 90, USSR was dissolved.
I forgot about the 90s but yeah good point. I never heard of “shock therapy” before but seems interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics) , seems like its a Retronym for describing IMF inspired market reforms. Good way to keep a country down :D
Here’s a book on a lot of required reading lists for understanding the dynamic between the US and Russia (and quite a few other countries). https://annas-archive.se/md5/f340859dd26f83063256d1374813307c