The US president on Wednesday said he was seeking “immediate negotiations” to acquire Greenland, but vowed not to use force to seize the territory.
    • Zron@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 hours ago

      My bet is tomorrow.

      Some marines probably woke up this morning and got issued cold weather gear for a surprise arctic exercise.

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    12 hours ago

    I wish his pledges were actually worth as much as his threats are, but… his threats are actually pretty credible. He’s doing the Nixon mad man thing but seems like everyone’s believing it.

    I wish I had had the courage to buy these dips he’s been manufacturing, but every time I have this feeling that if I get in there, this time it won’t be like last time.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Yes, but trump

      The Cheetos does this All. The. Fucking. Time.

      Threaten to do something, then threaten to buy it maybe instead? Then just chicken out.

      Invading Greenland would have been successful, because of course it would have been,the IS is the best at invading right now. But keeping Greenland? That would have cost thousands of US lives, insurgencies all over the place, it would be a shit show.

      So now trump tacos… again.

    • orbitz@lemmy.ca
      6·
      1 day ago

      Yeah the dude flips more than a light switch. He says what he thinks sounds good for that moment. That’s the limit of his ideals, unless it makes money then he does that.

      Cause he’s a greedy narcissist. Really that’s all you need to know, if it benefits him (I think he thought calming down rhetoric during that speech would make him appear better) he does it, that’s it. No deep end, no big 4d chess, he’s simpler than peasants portrayed in movies.

      • Joeffect@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        He’s going to invade Iceland because thats what this is really about… hes just so dumb to know the difference

    • pahlimur@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      This is more “he agrees with the last person he talked to” thing he always does. Peter Theil still wants his shithole utopia on Greenland, so he will likely flip back when he talks with him again.

      So stupid all of this.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    73·
    2 days ago

    Oh, and you can count on Trump to keep a promise, right?

    Anyway, I don’t even see a pledge. I see a dishonest expression of regret:

    “I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force,” Trump said in a speech to government and business leaders in Davos. “Now everyone’s saying, ‘Oh good.’”

    That’s the energy of an abusive partner: “I don’t want to hurt you, but you’re giving me no option here.” It’s how they settle their conscience right before they hurt you.

    • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      And he will soon win the Preparation H Peace Prize in addition to the Footy Peace Prize he’s already won!

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 day ago

      Yes that was a good speech, very much because it was a speech about facing a new reality, not saying directly but very clearly indicating that USA is not to be trusted, and we shouldn’t pretend as if they are.
      Canada has made 12 International trade and/or defense deals in 6 moths. 👍 😀
      That’s very impressive considering such deals usually take years to negotiate. And despite that I recently saw Canadians complain their government doesn’t do enough about the situation with USA? ⁉️

      In much the same way EU has escalated international deals to increase independence from USA.
      The clear winner here is of course China, so congratulations on that Trump!

  • fort_burp@feddit.nl
    23·
    1 day ago

    This is just taking every single word that comes out of Trump’s mouth seriously. A bad tactic.

  • Soulphite@reddthat.com
    35·
    2 days ago

    As an adult we all make a moral promise not to rape children… well this fuckwad failed miserably at that, what makes you think he isn’t going to rape Greenland? He’s already raping Venezuela and others currently… he’s a pedophile rapist piece of shit.