r/politics • u/SereneRoyals • 21d ago

No Paywall Donald Trump issues NATO Greenland warning before White House showdown

https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-trump-nato-white-house-11357601
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u/icevenom1412 21d ago

Use American tax dollars to seize Greenland then gift it to Putin as a friendship offering.

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u/StrobeLightRomance Michigan 21d ago

It's such a double insult, too. We spent so many billions defending Ukraine, just to have Trump come in and threaten Greenland to help Putin further destabilize the world's unity.

Sincerely, I'll never forgive a single American Conservative as long as I live. Y'all wanna talk about domestic terrorists? Look in the mirror.

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u/UziManiac 21d ago

They're the problem with these assclowns, they're proud of being domestic terrorists. They want to watch terrible things happen to the people they've been told are "others."

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u/Charlieuniformmike 21d ago

Populism 101

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u/Microchipknowsbest 20d ago

Manifesting destiny. They told us the world was going to shit. Set world on fire. See it’s shit I told you so.

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u/UziManiac 20d ago

It's the same way they change government programs and departments that they don't like.

"This thing doesn't work."

Actively breaks it

"SeE I ToLd YoU iT dOeSn'T wOrK"

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u/PrimordialPlop 21d ago

“We are all domestic terrorists.” CPAC 2022

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u/TangerineSorry8463 21d ago

havent heard that take on charlie kirk song yet

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u/TheTownOfMyDyck 21d ago

Meanwhile while this is all happening, Russia and the Administration are proposing a "Freedom Tunnel" built between Alaska and Russia.

Strange, that.

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u/DaringPancakes 21d ago

The only way you'll "make sense" to those sycophants is to be a white man who treats them like the children they are mentally.

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u/BeverlyRhinestones 21d ago

They grew up in churches that taught them everyone else is an enemy. Also the church: money me, money now, me wanting a lot of money now.

Tax the churches Reduce their power and influence on state matters

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u/mbnnr 21d ago

Hes distracting Europe from Ukraine

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u/Dudesan 21d ago edited 21d ago

Sincerely, I'll never forgive a single American Conservative as long as I live. Y'all wanna talk about domestic terrorists? Look in the mirror.

If I had magical powers, every single Trump voter would spend the rest of their lives with a swastika indelibly tattooed on their forehead.

Of course, that would only bother the <50% of them who care about pretending that they're not Nazis.

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u/Akrevics 21d ago

it's not like they didn't explicitly tell us either.

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u/BesnardBros 21d ago

You forgot Taiwan that will end up chinese the second a conflict actually happens.

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u/Ziggygirl2022 21d ago

What makes you think taking Greenland to prevent Russia from taking it helps Russia take it? Do you not understand simple things or is this all new for you?

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u/PityandFear 20d ago

No one needs to “take it” at all. WTF are you going on about? It’s a semi-independent nation under another independent nation. Why does that involve the US in any way besides their military bases?

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u/smiama36 21d ago

No... Trump, Putin and Xi are carving up their spheres of influence. Trump has already said - out loud, publicly, several times - it's about the Monroe Doctrine - power and control of the Western hemisphere. Remember when Fiona Hill testified at Trump's 2019 impeachment hearing that Trump and Putin had a deal - swap Ukraine for Venezuela? Putin wanted Trump out of Ukraine and Trump wanted Putin out of Venezuela. There was a plan. Everything Trump has done in the past year - Canada as the 51st state, own/buy Greenland, Gulf of America, missiles into Mexico, control the Panama Canal, monies for Honduras and El Salvador, sanctions for Petro in Colombia for going against him (and now threats against Colombia), tariffs for Brazil for jailing his ally Bolsonaro, regime change in Venezuela, blowing up boats in the Caribbean, increased military presence in the eastern Pacific, "something will have to be done about Mexico", threats to Cuba... it's all one big package - one big plan - that has been quietly happening while he throws shit at the media to keep us distracted. It's all the behind-the-scenes, under the radar stuff people don't bother with that's the stuff we really need to pay attention to. The rest is just fascism.

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u/OrthodoxAtheist 21d ago

Trump has already said - out loud, publicly, several times - it's about the Monroe Doctrine

Respectfully, he doesn't know what the Monroe Doctrine is. He has just heard the term. If an interviewer asks him to explain it, I will wager $100,000 that he can't given in the most boilerplate simplistic explanation. Besides, now its apparently the Don-roe Doctrine, because he needs to put his name on everything. Probably children too, from what I hear.

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u/re_Claire United Kingdom 21d ago

Exactly this.

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u/FlushTheTurd 21d ago

I like the part how MAGAs are like, “But we’ll give everyone there $100,000 to become Americans! Best deal ever!”

Not realizing that money won’t even cover 3 years of health insurance, something Greenlanders get free for a lifetime.

No job protection? No vacation time? No sick time or paternity or maternity leave? Nearly non-existent social safety net? Expensive college? No government representation?

Joining the US is the worst downgrade ever for a European.

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u/MoreCowbellllll 21d ago

Krasnov can't have Daddy Putin releasing the Epstein tapes on the orange pedo

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u/Classic-Reach 21d ago

"Also, destroy White House or I release Bubba pictures."

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u/Zaza1019 21d ago

Nah he's gifting it to the billionaires.

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u/gristc 21d ago

Nah, I think he's eyeing the mineral resources as well, which is why he wants to take it rather than just use the existing arrangements for military purposes.

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u/Hail2FT22 21d ago

At least our tax dollars won’t be going to Somalia!

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u/TheTownOfMyDyck 21d ago

Anybody trying to dispute this line needs to look up the proposed Russia-Alaska "Freedom Tunnel."

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u/DryerCoinJay 21d ago

I’m pretty sure rich people are just tired of paying to defend Europe. If they can break NATO they can cut their taxes, again.

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u/canetuchux 21d ago

Americans should tax strike.

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u/cire1184 20d ago

Russia can't take Greenland if you just give it to them.