Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, France, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland to face a 10% tariff beginning February 1. Trump said tariffs will be in place until "a deal is reached" on Greenland. [...] Trump added that if no resolution is reached until June 1 this year, the tariffs will jump to 25%.
Americans wanted change so they didn't want establishment politicians. When this usually happens the far-right and far-left come into view and typically what happens is that the far-right get first dibs because they always promise the impossible so their proposals are at first glance more attractive to the electorate. In the case of this election, the Democrats didn't even allow the progressives to contest the election so there wasn't really a choice at all.
The policy isn't decided by one person or one party or the two parties for that matter. Trump is just an actor going thorough the script, as much as he can make it.
These tariffs must be becoming self defeating. If they get imposed on a whim what is the point of avoiding them, only to be told you need to jump higher next time. Surely the answer must be to trade with anyone else and write off the USA.
Gave him a golden samurai helmet. Very rare, very important. I heard that it was like a New Yorker gifting a Ruth home run bat. Trade deal got signed, everyone was happy.
Then 'liberation' day happened. The Japanese got smacked with absurd tariffs. Big trade deal might as well have been chewing gum. They didn't get the samurai helmet back. They're still sore about it.
That peace prize he got on Friday? Couldn't even remember her name that afternoon.
There is not a single thing he says that any nation can trust. If the first rule of politics is that once you're bought, you have to stay bought, then Donny is playing Calvinball.
The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being. They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.
It was settled by Scandinavians in 986 and with a bit of reorganisation Norway transferred it to Denmark in 1933.
They signed an agreement with the US in 1951, that the US military could freely use and move between defence areas, but was not to infringe upon Danish sovereignty.
I feel this is a major turning point for how entities can/will behave from now on towards Trump's wants/decisions. Now it is publicly proved, that you cannot trust deals made with Trump, because they can be just invalidated at a moment's notice. Only bad deals to be made, so why would any reasoned entity agree to those. World will not take threats seriously any more, and will defend themselves.
Maybe missions in Venezuela, Iran etc. was accomplished so easily, that it blurred the judgment of what could be done. But those countries are different than a conglomerate of 450 M people / 27 countries. And now military and economic thinking/domains/threats were also mixed. "Weak EU leaders" can and are now forced to unite as one strong resistance.
My biggest grievances with the current way is that China's gonna get more powerful because of it.
As an Indian, I don't like it
I hope that Europe realizes that the problem isn't america (although it kinda is as well), its the fault where if one party relies on another party and they go rogue. (I do feel as if America might have gone rogue)
China's Authoritarian too about tiannmen shows that it can go rogue as well.
My point is a new geopolitical order of net neutrality should be taken place all over the world.
I am saying this because I have read both Indian and American history and geopolitics and Something like this happened with India during its time to create a nuke (which now feels like being the biggest factor for security)
The point of the nukes aren't to do agression but rather to protect one in cases where its sovereignity is being undermined by oppression.
I can go on about this for hours but we have this saying from the people who remember the past grievances (its usually the older people more geopolitically well versed but some of those are being passed down to newer generations)
"to be an enemy of US can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal."
We are probably gonna shift to a new world order now that America's trust is eroded effectively impacting its finance sector the most imo. Companies are simply gonna pull all the money and bonds out of America
that being said, once again I wish to point out that the solution isn't to rely on any other country just as Europe or the world did on America. its simply to be in a multi polar world where relationships and treaties are between countries and the reliance on a single country is tried to be minimal
We will probably see EU cozy up more to India (recently got a trade deal which does hurt India more than not) but India's willing to sacrifice some parts of this because India also wants to not be reliant on America.
I have been both pro America and skeptical of it but never in a million years I expected something like this.
I just feel sympathy for American businesses because some people voted because some of these people and businesses are genuinely good and they are gonna have a hard time in the future. My sympathy to both American families (if they get impacted by what might come in the future because of things like this) & the European nations effectively being bullied by America.
I feel like a lot of Europeans might feel the same way right now where we aren't American businesses or families but what America as a country is doing itself & its becoming a matter not of nationalism but of national sovereignity.
American geopolitics have been super depressing recently that I had to avoid most talks about geopolitics after tariffs but there are so many points where one is almost forced to speak because of the insanity behind thngs and thats been so frequently basically being every news nowadays.
Is there seriously any more further escalation which can take place except from a full scale war? Perhaps raising more tarrifs I suppose from 10% and I am pretty sure if things dont go out that way we might see this too & this violates NATO's article 2 as well so I don't know what's left aside from a full scale escalation of war.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 37.1 ms ] threadThese are most of the countries that sent military forces to Greenland during the past two days for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Arctic_Endurance. The US was also invited.
The policy isn't decided by one person or one party or the two parties for that matter. Trump is just an actor going thorough the script, as much as he can make it.
Gave him a golden samurai helmet. Very rare, very important. I heard that it was like a New Yorker gifting a Ruth home run bat. Trade deal got signed, everyone was happy.
Then 'liberation' day happened. The Japanese got smacked with absurd tariffs. Big trade deal might as well have been chewing gum. They didn't get the samurai helmet back. They're still sore about it.
That peace prize he got on Friday? Couldn't even remember her name that afternoon.
There is not a single thing he says that any nation can trust. If the first rule of politics is that once you're bought, you have to stay bought, then Donny is playing Calvinball.
The Parties will contribute toward the further development of peaceful and friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions of stability and well-being. They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.
why is the congress allowing this to continue?
in any parliamentary democracy this cretin would have been gone by now
Right. The West's not seen anything like this since the Reich's march into the Sudetenland.
One can only hope Europe has enough gumption to confront the bully long enough for US citizens to awake and correct the situation.
The last thing we need now is gutless Appeasement from European states à la Chamberlain.
Can someone who is unhappy about this fill me in on why Denmark should have it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indi...
What next? Sicily?
They signed an agreement with the US in 1951, that the US military could freely use and move between defence areas, but was not to infringe upon Danish sovereignty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_hybrid_warfare_agains...
Maybe missions in Venezuela, Iran etc. was accomplished so easily, that it blurred the judgment of what could be done. But those countries are different than a conglomerate of 450 M people / 27 countries. And now military and economic thinking/domains/threats were also mixed. "Weak EU leaders" can and are now forced to unite as one strong resistance.
As an Indian, I don't like it
I hope that Europe realizes that the problem isn't america (although it kinda is as well), its the fault where if one party relies on another party and they go rogue. (I do feel as if America might have gone rogue)
China's Authoritarian too about tiannmen shows that it can go rogue as well.
My point is a new geopolitical order of net neutrality should be taken place all over the world.
I am saying this because I have read both Indian and American history and geopolitics and Something like this happened with India during its time to create a nuke (which now feels like being the biggest factor for security)
The point of the nukes aren't to do agression but rather to protect one in cases where its sovereignity is being undermined by oppression.
I can go on about this for hours but we have this saying from the people who remember the past grievances (its usually the older people more geopolitically well versed but some of those are being passed down to newer generations)
"to be an enemy of US can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal."
We are probably gonna shift to a new world order now that America's trust is eroded effectively impacting its finance sector the most imo. Companies are simply gonna pull all the money and bonds out of America
that being said, once again I wish to point out that the solution isn't to rely on any other country just as Europe or the world did on America. its simply to be in a multi polar world where relationships and treaties are between countries and the reliance on a single country is tried to be minimal
We will probably see EU cozy up more to India (recently got a trade deal which does hurt India more than not) but India's willing to sacrifice some parts of this because India also wants to not be reliant on America.
I have been both pro America and skeptical of it but never in a million years I expected something like this.
I just feel sympathy for American businesses because some people voted because some of these people and businesses are genuinely good and they are gonna have a hard time in the future. My sympathy to both American families (if they get impacted by what might come in the future because of things like this) & the European nations effectively being bullied by America.
I feel like a lot of Europeans might feel the same way right now where we aren't American businesses or families but what America as a country is doing itself & its becoming a matter not of nationalism but of national sovereignity.
American geopolitics have been super depressing recently that I had to avoid most talks about geopolitics after tariffs but there are so many points where one is almost forced to speak because of the insanity behind thngs and thats been so frequently basically being every news nowadays.
Is there seriously any more further escalation which can take place except from a full scale war? Perhaps raising more tarrifs I suppose from 10% and I am pretty sure if things dont go out that way we might see this too & this violates NATO's article 2 as well so I don't know what's left aside from a full scale escalation of war.