I can only conclude we must all have been very naughty indeed!
Trump again demands to buy Greenland in ‘horrendous’ call with Danish PM
Source says: ‘The Danes are in crisis mode’ after US president’s call with prime minister Mette Frederiksen
Sun 26 Jan 2025 05.19 AEDT
Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European officials.
Speaking to the Financial Times, officials said that Trump, then still president-elect, spoke with Frederiksen for 45 minutes last week, during which he was described to be aggressive and confrontational about Frederiksen’s refusal to sell Greenland to the US.
The Financial Times reports that according to five current and former senior European officials who were briefed on the call, the conversation “was horrendous”. One person said: “He was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious and potentially very dangerous.”
Another person who was briefed on the call told the outlet: “The intent was very clear. They want it. The Danes are now in crisis mode.” Someone else said: “The Danes are utterly freaked out by this.”
According to one former Danish official, the call was a “very tough conversation” in which Trump “threatened specific measures against Denmark such as targeted tariffs”.
Trump has previously said that the US needs to control Greenland and has refused to rule out using US military force to take over the territory. During a press conference a few weeks ago, Trump said that the US needed Greenland “for economic security”. The 836,300-sq-mile (2,166,007-sq-km) Arctic island is rich in oil and gas, as well as various raw materials for green technology.
Speaking to TV 2 earlier this month, Frederiksen said that the autonomous territory is “not for sale”, adding: “Seen through the eyes of the Danish government, Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.”
In 1953, Greenland became part of the kingdom of Denmark, and in 1979, home rule was introduced. Despite Denmark controlling Greenland’s foreign and security policy, Greenland has its own parliament.
During his new year speech, Múte Egede, Greenland’s prime minister, said that he wanted Greenland to break free from “the shackles of colonialism”. Then, following a visit from Donald Trump Jr earlier this year, Egede said: “We are Greenlanders. We don’t want to be Americans. We don’t want to be Danish either. Greenland’s future will be decided by Greenland.”
Here is the link:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/trump-greenland-denmark
Given he (Trump) is 78, or so, years old and apparently eats a very poor diet (hamburgers and Coke?) is it too much to hope that his reign will not be unduly prolonged? I really think a graceful retirement would be good for the world, but what would I know?
You really do have to wonder, however, about this obsession with Greenland for Heaven’s sake! Has he slipped a cog or two?
From what I read his chosen successor (the present VP) is hardly a model of sensible humanity so maybe the devil we know?
I guess we will have to wait to see how it all turns out, but if the apparent plans of his new US Health Secretary are anything to go by, we are in deep dodo (He thinks vaccines are a hoax etc.)! God help us all if there is a global health emergency of some sort with him leading the effort!
David.
3 comments:
Welcome back, David. Yes, the American experiment is certainly dipping its toe in good old South African apartheid and cruelty. Those who voted for this under the excuse of being sick of wokeness (whatever that is) will soon discover they are surplus to requirement, and like the inauguration, his followers will be left out in the cold. History shows it will not turn out well. The best thing world leaders can do is trade with each other, blockade the US and stop dealing with them. Is Greed will do the rest.
Trump won in a landslide, so the negativity is not the opinion of the majority of the US population. He replaces a clearly demented figurehead with definite woke agendas that were destroying the US and are doing the same here. The MAHA element is clearly needed and the epidemic of chronic disease in the US is shocking and we are not far behind. The WHO is a criminal organisation and we should also withdraw from it. Any rational examination of the evidence would suggest the Human Induced climate change narrative is a scam which is already having a negative effect on our quality of life. My only concern would be the seeming support for mRNA based cancer vaccines as this is a failed technology the should be withdrawn. You may not like Trump on a personal level, but his actions on the whole I support. I hope RFK is appointed to bring some much needed transparency to medical interventions and address the chronic disease epidemic which is probably due to processed food and bad dietary guidelines pushed by public health. The only issue in Australia is the lack of conservative leadership which is needed to address the woke policy agendas here. My Health Record is another failed technology that needs to be axed, but it's become "Too big to fail" even though it already has.
Trump got 26% of the registered voters, hardly a landslide or mandate.
He's very good at identifying symptoms and complaining about them.
His ability to solve problems in a meaningful, lasting manner is dubious. He's like bull in a china shop.
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