Trump’s tariff threat against Denmark risks showdown with European Union

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tariff-threat-denmark-showdown-european-union-2013248

by Philanthrax

36 comments

  1. That guy is attacking his allies. Guess who will turn their back on him when he needs them. China and Russia are just standing there, winning by not moving at all.

  2. When your enemy is doing something stupid. Don’t interrupt them.

  4. These people only understand hardball, you double whatever they threaten to do to you. 

  5. If the EU is a single market doesn’t he have to impose tariffs as a bloc? 

  7. This is so fucking dumb. I didn’t expect anything else from him.

  8. “Trump’s ~~tariff threat against~~ **extortion of** Denmark risks showdown with European Union.”

    FTFY

  9. Trump at a press conference last week told reporters that the U.S. needs Greenland “for national security purposes,” claiming that “people really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up, because we need it for national security purposes.”

    Even fucking putin was more subtle in his territorial claims when he invaded Ukraine.

  10. The EU is like NATO but for trade.

    Tariffs against one member will be treated as tariffs against all members.

  11. Americans write this off as brinkmanship but I don’t think they’d find it so funny if the role was reversed.

    Europe needs to start divesting itself from America economically, politically and militarily as to be blunt large segments of the American population do support this rhetoric.

  13. What will it take for the average r/Europe to stop having this Stockholm syndrome mentality towards the USA?

    The USA has thrown the Europe industry under the bus, they totally cannibalized the continent’s corporations, capital and will not come to Europe’s aid.

    They have forced their IT corporations and technology on Europe while fighting aggressively against China’s.

    I’m only onboard with fighting China’s influence off if that means also fighting the USA’s influence.

    The one that’s talking very openly about expanding into Greenland, Canada and Panama is on the other side, he has a political base to make it.

    If what the former president of South Korea tried, that is, Trump while in office declares martial law for whatever reason (a second assassination attempt by Antifa, a narco/terrorist attack, or whatever) do you think that the people will stand in his way or rally behind him?

    Who has guns? His base? Or the rival electorate?

    But a lot of the comments are “yeah, we should let them have Greenland because they will help us against China’s expansion” or “Hur, dur, Orange man is stupid”.

  14. Denmark was always the US good little ally, helping them spy on the rest of the EU and all.

    It makes Trump s crusade against it even more senseless.

  15. Denmark exports roughly 13 billion dollars worth of stuff to the USA, or 10% of all their exports. Of these 13 billion, over half are medical supplies (Ozempic, wink wink). The other way around, it imports roughly 5 billion a year from the USA, which make up some 4% of their entire imports. From those, over 40% are fossils.

    From a pure economical point of view Denmark is very well equipped to deal with Trumps tariffs, as they export little to them and what they export is crucial for the american market and “the talk” right now whereas their imports are small and can be replaced by others easily as well.

    The danger lies not in the tariffs but in the wider geopolitical implications of allies going at it. Trump did so with the whole of the EU in his first term and back then the EU was already weak geopolitically but still stronger than now, almost 10 years of decline later.

    Going by the news we get, the EU will submit to Trump, even when the numbers would favour them in some fields (like here with Denmark).

  16. To be clear, he’s threatening retaliation because … they won’t give him their territory?

  17. Denmark lost 47 men in Afghanistan helping the US after 9/11. They were there for 10 years. It is shameful how they are being treated. The EU has their back.

  18. Denmark just needs to ban the exports of Ozempic to the US. That’ll wake them up real quick.

  19. Biden has done a great job on American economy, trump will crash it, destroy Medicaid and force more people onto the streets. Europe must stand together at this point America is no longer a reliable ally

  21. Well, I propose a new special ASLM sales tax while we bring our chip making manufacturing back, and then straight up ban.

    Let’s see how we’ll Apple, Nvidia, Tesla. Etc do without this European company.

  22. Make no mistake, the EU is a sleeping superpower. The world would better not forget that.

  23. That’s exactly what putin put him there to do so why are you surprised 🤪

  24. Reality for us in Europe right now is that we have a directly hostile enemy in the East and our most important ally is acting like an enemy as well. We gotta do something about our own security architecture incredibly fast or we are gonna get squeezed from all sides at once. Only way to escape is to have energy autonomy, strong manufacturing, reliable access to crucial natural resources and a terrifying military capacity.

    Right now we have neither. So we should discard the political elites who have led us here. Start new parties and movements from the bottom up. Organize local communities.

  25. Dear Denmark Friends&Brothers

    We know you have to somehow deal with trump bullying right now.
    We understand you.
    We are with you !!! 

    And I expect the EU has a really good plan about all of this, and we will hear it as soon as … yesterday.

  28. Europe needs to toughen up. America isn’t an ally anymore

  29. EU need to band together and protect Denmark to the hilt. An attack on one is an attack on all

  30. Trump makes no sense because he’s run out of ideas, he’s old and he’s trying to leave his shitty kids and himself a legacy. Failed businessman, failed person in general.. half of the US thinks he’s complete garbage! I love Europe! I grew up in the US, but I’m okay with throwing away my US passport and going back to Mexico! This country has changed so much, I don’t feel safe here.

  31. I’m rooting for the EU! You guys are the least bad option to lead the world by far. Cheers from Brazil

  33. Canon’s lithography machines are on the verge of taking off, making a vital competitor to ASML…

  34. On behalf of the USA please accept my apologies for our mentally handicapped president

  36. During Brexit negotiations, Empire 2.0 Brexiteers were so sure they could single out Ireland and bully it into submission, like in the good old days. Fully expecting that Brussels wouldn’t lift a finger or endanger German car exports to the UK over such an insignificant member state like Ireland. Oh where they shocked to see, when Ireland called the cavalry in Brussels and it swiftly came to their defense, all for one, one for all style.

    Now the next US president thinks he can bully Denmark.

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