Europe Wonders if Trump Can Be Bought Off With Arctic Concessions

Europe Wonders if Trump Can Be Bought Off With Arctic Concessions



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  1. The Arctic region has become a focal point of interest for the United States, with President Donald Trump expressing a desire to annex Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. This move has left European allies surprised, as Trump’s opinions on NATO, the European Union, and Ukraine are well-known, but his fixation on Greenland is unexpected. The Arctic region is a strategic location, with both the US and Russia being Arctic nations, and it is becoming increasingly important due to the growth of shipping routes, with trade along the Northern Sea route increasing by 755% between 2014 and 2022. The region’s significance is also highlighted by the presence of US military outposts, such as the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, which performs missile warning, space surveillance, and satellite command and control functions. Experts believe that the US and European allies can work together to address mutual concerns and interests in the Arctic region, potentially through infrastructure projects such as building and expanding ports and harbors along the North Sea Route.

  2. So Ed Arnold and Dwayne Ryan Menezes are representing Europe now?

    Europe doesn’t wonder if Trump can be bought with Greenland. If any we wonder if he would go to war over it.

  3. I’m having a very hard time understanding how entire nations filled with countless capable people negotiate like incompetent scared children in the Trump era.

    If you have a guy like Trump that makes outrageous requests, like annexing Canada, and you go along with him and sit at the negotiation table with him, instead of showing outrage and chastising him, and imidiatly make all sorts of amazing concessions that you would absolutely never had made to anybody else, what do they think is going to happen next?

    If you give Trump all these concessions almost imidiatly to appease him, he is going to break the deal 2 months later and he is going to ask for much more. He has already proven this over and over again, for example by repudiating the NAFTA renegotiation that he had done in his first term and asking to annex Canada.

  4. Negotiate and make concessions to politicians like Trump or Putin will lead to a catastrophe.

  5. Soon enough Trump will violate the sovereign territorial waters of the Canadian arctic under the guise of needing to protect American territorial interests.

    America will steal Canadian territory and nothing will be able to be done about it.

  6. Wonders? Put some money in trumps personal accounts (through his proxies of course) and you can get access….the whole system is corrupt, how do I know? its run by the wealthy. Any billionaire can be ‘bought’ off, so long as they get their personal piece to add to the huge pile of assets they already control, a pile so big the average person cant even comprehend what it can do for you..

  9. > Whether you see Trump’s apparent desire to own Greenland as bluster from a man prone to audacious nonsense or a serious threat to a sovereign ally, officials and experts agree that the Arctic region is both a strategic weakness and an opportunity for the United States.

    “Some people say that ignoring a former ally’s sovereign territorial claims represents an opportunity” sure is an interesting sentence implicitly ceding all initial arguments to the extreme right wing rhetoric.

  11. Trump is a simple man. He wants to be paid off. His “art of the deal” is to bully and punish everyone into giving him what he wants. If you don’t pay to play, he will purposefully do what he can to hurt you until you give in. Once Trump has his eyes set on something, he doesn’t care what it will costs to get it. There is no line he wouldn’t cross to get what he wants. Therefore Trump would likely be willing to give Europe quite a lot in exchange for Greenland. It would be a significant political win for Trump, costs be damned. 

  12. I swear there’s some quote about learning from history and repetition that might come in handy at a time like this but I can’t put my finger on it

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