US attack on Greenland would mean end of Nato, says Danish PM
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Mette Frederiksen criticises Donald Trump’s ‘unacceptable pressure’ as Greenland counterpart condemns ‘fantasies’

Leader of former Danish colony, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, condemns US ‘threats’ as Nordic neighbours offer support

Greenland has urged Donald Trump to give up his “fantasies about annexation” after the US president, fresh from his military operation in Venezuela, again threatened to take over the Arctic territory.

In a bracingly direct statement, the Greenlandic prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, accused the US of “completely and utterly unacceptable” rhetoric, declaring: “Enough is enough.”

On Sunday, Trump said the US needed Greenland “very badly” – renewing fears of a US invasion of the largely autonomous island, which is a former Danish colony and remains part of the Danish kingdom. Greenland’s foreign and security policy continues to be controlled by Copenhagen.

  • perestroika@slrpnk.netEnglish
    172·
    3 days ago

    Possibly:

    • or the EU will sell all its US debt, and will refuse to buy / hold US debt
    • or the EU will refuse to settle payments in US dollars, and will divest itself of them (leaving euro and yuan as world currencies)
    • or the EU will enact very damaging sanctions on the US
    • or the EU will request a geopolitical alliance with China, and ask China to influence its junior partner named Russia to stop attacking Ukraine (I note that this would likely work, and Russia would stop)

    …at that point, the world order would have changed. Not necessarily for the better, but definitely for much worse for the US (it would be plunged into an economic crisis and have no chance of hegemonizing around the planet), but sadly also for Taiwan. China would very likely demand ignoring them. :(

    EU and China could be reasonably certain of either side not attacking the other.

    It doesn’t need to happen, a credible threat of pivoting east should be enough.

    • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      3 days ago

      or the EU will refuse to settle payments in US dollars, and will divest itself of them (leaving euro and yuan as world currencies)

      This is already a train that has left the station, Europe is waiting until the last minute because they’re currently complicit in American war crimes and are gambling on the American empire’s survival, but they will join mBridge soon enough.

      Saudi Arabia joined, the US petrodollar is already dead. One day, your USD spending power will drop by half or more over night. America’s ability to finance their war machine will disappear, and people will finally suddenly have a conscience and demand end to Israeli support, they’re fucked too.

      The Venezuela attacks are an open admission that the US empire is collapsing and in panic mode. The oil they steal won’t last forever, and they’ll have to compete with Saudi Arabia which will ditch the dollar.