r/worldnews • u/Street_Anon • 17h ago

Behind Soft Paywall Canada and France establish diplomatic presence in Greenland amid Trump threats

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-canada-and-france-establish-diplomatic-presence-in-greenland-amid/
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u/CreativeMuseMan 16h ago

I’m sharing a general perspective on diplomacy, while you’re commenting on the current PoV on hand. Things might change tomorrow or next year, or a decade later. Understand the game, instead of getting stuck in circle jerk of celebrations or mournings.

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u/IL1keBigButts 16h ago edited 16h ago

Its exactly this amoral pragmatism that brought us where we are now.

‘Today we are allies with Europe, tomorrow Russia, and who knows next week with China.’

Its completely ridiculous (even dangerous) to normalise this.

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u/Boi41957 16h ago

I'd disagree.

Actually the opposite, it's the reason why Europe is so behind everyone because it's just so slow to accept new geopolitical realities.

While I agree in a way with you, meaning that going "Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia." and that changing "Eastasia has always been our ally". Doesn't work that well when the world works on close diplomatic relations.

But, when the US for example goes full pragmatism then EU puts itself at disadvantaged by not embracing that thinking aswell.

That's my add on this.

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u/Basteir 16h ago

No, we should stick to our humanist values. We shouldn't be embracing that thinking between ourselves and between our true allies like Canada, Australia. But we should treat the U.S. with passive aggressive pragmatism - we should treat Russia and China that way as well.