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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(121,904 posts) Mon Apr 7, 2025, 02:00 PM Apr 7

Greenland and Canada Line up Against the Bully

“One way or the other, we’re going to get it,” President Donald Trump says of Greenland, the autonomous territory of Denmark that he covets for its mineral wealth and strategic position in the Arctic Circle.

He told a British broadcaster over the weekend that he sees “a good possibility that we could do it without military force.”

But if Greenlanders or the Kingdom of Denmark don’t understand the imperative of U.S. ownership of their land for the sake of world peace and security, Trump warns, he may have to resort to hostile means. “I don’t take anything off the table,” he said in the Sky News interview also aired by NBC.

The increasingly aggressive approach of the Trump White House to acquiring the world’s biggest island has so offended Greenlanders and Danes that no one in the government or business communities wants anything to do with the United States.

https://www.postalley.org/2025/04/03/greenland-and-canada-line-up-against-the-bully/

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Greenland and Canada Line up Against the Bully (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 7 OP

Headline: "US sales abroad drop precipitously". That is the best response whether Denmark or anyone and it will show dutch777 Apr 7 #1

Yep. Tariffs don't even matter if most consumers in a given county tanyev Apr 7 #2

Precisely. Countries' leadership may cave to Trump bullying but individuals have their own path to hurt the US dutch777 Apr 10 #3

dutch777

(4,305 posts)

1. Headline: "US sales abroad drop precipitously". That is the best response whether Denmark or anyone and it will show

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Apr 7, 2025, 02:08 PM

Apr 7

in US corporate bottom lines. Tesla is just the first but I think whether it is travel, services or other products, companies that have some reliance on overseas sales will get hurt as much by folks scorning all things American as much as any tariff action. Denmark may be too small to be deeply significant but China, Japan and Germany certainly will be.

tanyev

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2. Yep. Tariffs don't even matter if most consumers in a given county

Reply to dutch777 (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 7, 2025, 05:27 PM

Apr 7

are voluntarily boycotting U.S. products and services.

dutch777

(4,305 posts)

3. Precisely. Countries' leadership may cave to Trump bullying but individuals have their own path to hurt the US

Reply to tanyev (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 06:51 PM

Apr 10

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