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.
The pandering to Trump has been an element of our strategy over the last year
Meaning while, USA citizens are waiting for mid term elections! Trump most likely will leave or court will do something. Sit and watch, do nothing.
You would do the same if you were a US citizen. Talking tough from a distance is just as pathetic as our inaction and general inability to magically fix our country. Waiting for elections and not escalating beyond peaceful protests is all we can do without handing them the propaganda they need. Peaceful includes open carrying like the black panthers.
If someone were to actually assassinate the orange one, you guys are way more fucked. The retribution campaign would go way beyond Greenland even if it makes no sense.
Don’t your knees hurt for being on them for so long?
Man the fuck up and stop trusting billionaires who only care about money will save you from billionaires who only care about money and raping children.
The feudalists behind Trump made the mistake to give the population a chance to bring him down once… they won’t repeat it. Also, if I remember correctly the SCOTUS granted the POTUS immunity for any action commited during his presidency. So whether Trump an others will be helf accountable his highly questionable to me… even if he loses the election in 3 years.
Why can’t NATO still exist without the US? The alliance could still stick together even if the US shits the bed. God damn why am I typing this? WW3 is about to start and I have no idea what the fuck is going on in my country anymore.
Because nobody in Europe wants to fight
End of NATO means:
- Russia will go all in in Ukraine, Moldavia and baltic states
- Turkey and Greece will go to war.
- Israel will bomb everybody just in case
- China will get Taiwan
- USA will bomb Mexico
- Israel will nuke someone
- …
\7. France nukes everyone. (That’s their policy, anyone uses nukes, they launch everything they have against all nuclear powers, which isn’t a lot, but that’s a lot of major cities gone.)
Isn’t that Israel’s nuclear doctrine?
Yea, it is. Not true of France.
Officially Israel “doesn’t have nukes,” unofficially they have very few that could be used in short order before they are nuked. They don’t have the capability to nuke more than a few countries in the Middle East
That’s not an answer to my question. What you described sounds most like Israel’s Samson Option and not anything like I’ve ever heard of France’s nuclear doctrine.
And this is why billionaires have been building bunkers.
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Let’s hope the same thing will happen if/when the US tries to take Greenland; but honestly, I’m not optimistic. At least here in Germany, politicians and businesses are so used to licking the US’ boot that I have a hard time imagining a seismic shift. Not to mention that thanks to our dependence on US software, we’re incredibly vulnerable.
Still. One can hope.
I just want to say it won’t end Nato. Nato countries will stick together, but the USA will be out, alone, isolated, another rouge state just like Russia. That is until Americans grow a spine and either throw Trump out by election, by force, or by crashing the economy.
Recently saw the Handmaids tale, it kinda reflects how things can go to shit and reminds me of the isolated state.
Considering this year started 10 days ago, I don’t think we have enough time til the election in 3 years.
And then they may elect Mr Beast or some other rich dude.
And then they may elect Mr Beast
I can’t wait for welfare to be replaced by “Survive 30 days in Guantanamo, win $500,000”, and “100 people in Alligator Alcatraz. Last one standing wins $1,000,000”.
And gets to keep the alligator.
I’m sure the free world will stick together till the bitter end
The population of the US is about 342 million. Russia has a population of about 146 million. China has a population of about 1.4 billion. The European Union has a population of about 448 million people. The population of the world is about 8 billion. The orange mobster THINKS it will rule the world?
The thing is that population numbers isn’t everything, it’s also about what that population is doing. A tree has a thousand times the mass of a patch of grass but produces the same photosynthesis or sth.
That’s because the tree is massive due to its trunk, which is dead weight and doesn’t do much.
Germany needs to boot the US out of all the military installations there.
Germany helped the usa become the beast it is and is the inspiration for the current situation (funny when the usa inspired Germany first).
The right wing parties in Europe will help the usa.
I’m one of those experts but I’ve been saying Europe should prepare for end of NATO ever since Trump won for the first time.
NATO won’t end, only the US being part of NATO will end.
In fact if NATO didn’t already exist, something just like it would be formed if the US starts invading countries just because a crazy old man thinks the world map is a colouring book.
The crazy old man is a reflection of all Americans. That’s how most Americans see the world. 1 American life is worth 10,000 third world country lives.
Please stop vilifying the entirety of America. There are millions of us that are doing everything we can to organize against this while also feeding our families.
The US has dominated the Western hemisphere for 70 years. Moving to snatch-and-grab military adventurism suggests that is no longer the case.
To the US, this is all just a distraction scheme from economic problems at home, and they know it.
People are poor and looking for anything to make them feel alive again.
I hope the US loses all international rights if this happens. It has too many.
Might is the only right in the year 2026.
Gonna keep spamming this cuz I made it a year ago and it sat in a random folder on my PC for the perfect time lol
Putin is a genius
Calling him a “genius” is overdoing it, i think. He just interpreted the signals of the time, before anyone else did. He guessed correctly that the west is too fractured and weak to defend Ukraine.
He could have waited a few more years before his special military operation for his Trojan horse to get back into office. Wouldn’t call him a genius entirely.
but it was just three days to kyiv
I think it’s more that Americans are stupid.
He brexited, too.
Nah that was British boomers being stupid.
Putins had his hand in ensuring that happened for the latest generation as well.
It was Americans that created a culture where people will believe anything as long certain symbols are referenced. Throw in a flag or a cross and they’ll believe any bullshit.
Americans made themselves stupid, Putin just exploited that stupidity.
Too much lead poisoning makes people dumb.
And he played their stupidity just right.
Yep, he played everyone perfectly. Used economical ambition to neutralize Germany, nationalism to defeat UK and stupidity to take over US.
They are a nation who stereotypically love playing chess…
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.
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 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
End of NATO. Putin’s wet dream.
I mean Donald Trump is working for Vladimir Putin come on
Power couple of the century
…and an EU-China alliance, Trump’s nightmare alliance, with China mediating and resolving disputes in northern Eurasia, including the Russia-Ukraine war, likely with mere words.
He should know that if he blows up NATO, it’s coming.
US analysts should tell him that this potential alliance would have several times the industrial capacity and scientific potential of the US, and if that doesn’t count, it would also have ~ 1000 nuclear warheads.
(The alliance would be stable since potential allies would be far from each other, safely separated by a large nuclear armed gas station which also claims alliance with China, but China supplies drone parts to both sides.)
China is not some all powerful country, nor is it altruistic.
The end of Russia’s war in Ukraine is the end of Putin. Do you think Putin will basically kill himself because of a word from China?
And you’re thinking too small. There is a lot of diplomacy going on between every country in the world. Mark Carney is in China at this very moment. There are other delegations in India. Japan, Korea, and China are working together a little more now, and they hate one another. Everyone is making temporary alliances. It’s shaping up to be US and Russia vs. the world.
Trump is trading NATO, the most powerful alliance in history, for Russia, a collapsing country.
He’s not trading anything. You know that joke:
- People: We need healthcare!
- GOP: Fuck off!
- DNC: Fuck off! #BLM #woke #believewomen #imwithher
They could’ve taken over Venezuela and said it’s about democracy. The media was poised to make that the story. Europe slid in with “well, he is a dictator…”. They even had a Nobel peace prize recipient ready to jump in and take over. Hell, half the people on here were willing to go along with it. But for MAGA, doing evil isn’t enough anymore, you have to rub it in, you have to gloat about it, you have to be mean. Giving Israel weapons isn’t enough, you have to publicly tell them to kill everyone. It’s not enough to twist other nations’ arms in trade deals, you have to literally extort them. It’s not enough to round up and deport brown people, you need to have camps and cages and then film it and put it on TV, and laugh at them. It’s not enough to ignore protesters, or have them suicided, you have to murder them, and do so openly and proudly.
Dumping NATO, to Stephen Miller, is not a sacrifice but an unshackling. Now they don’t even need to pretend anything they do is for some greater good, even if they weren’t too crass and stupid to pull it off. They believe they’re in the endgame, and they’re just taking what they want.
China doesn’t want world domination. It just want to look out for China. However, what it considers China and what everyone else does are very different.
