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US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3 has emboldened him to proceed with the annexation of Greenland, a Danish-owned, self-governed territory, spelling the effective end of NATO and furthering Russia’s war aims in Ukraine, experts tell Al Jazeera.

“The move on Venezuela illustrates the Trump administration’s determination to dominate the Western Hemisphere – of which Greenland geographically is a part,” said Anna Wieslander, Northern Europe director for the Atlantic Council, a think tank.

“If the United States decides to attack another NATO country, then everything would stop – that includes NATO and therefore post-World War II security,” Frederiksen said.

“The pandering to Trump has been an element of our strategy over the last year, leaving observers hoping, but not entirely trusting, that another element of the strategy is preparing urgently for the final rupture with the United States,” Giles said.

Giles told Al Jazeera that Europe’s best option was to place a military deterrent on Greenland now, believing that putting allied troops in the Baltic States and Poland after 2017 deterred a Russian attack there.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Maybe America has to be understood as the logical conclusion of Western European geopolitical and moral ideology, and maybe it has to hurt Europeans (I'm French living in the UK, DW, it'll hurt me too but such is life) for us to finally consider some sort of ideological revolution that produces something that's diametrically opposed to what's currently embraced. I mean, it's not like we wouldn't be doing whatever America has been doing for at least 70 years if we had their power level, lol, history shows that clearly, so for this all to end because it must ("THIS SICILIAN THING THAT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR 2000 YEARS!") our minds have to undergo a drastic collective change.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It’s peak neolib capitalism.

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”

[–] evol@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Europe is kind of just a retired United States, the pension scheme is the us defense budget

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

TBH the change can be pretty small, albeit revolutionary.

Actually embrace the humanitarian values of enlightenment. Gain some class consciousness. Remove the dictatorship of the capital by seizing the means of production. Consider other peoples of the world as equals and allies rather than dumb weaklings to be taught a lesson and/or exploited.

It all fits in a very long and established european tradition. Remember that Marx, Engels, Liebknecht, Luxemburg, Kropotkin, and Lenin were all europeans.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The humanitarian ideals of the enlightenment were used to justify colonialism, they simply said "look, those people don't have our humanitarian ideals, we need to take control of their society/resources."

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, agreed. Hence

Consider other peoples of the world as equals and allies rather than dumb weaklings to be taught a lesson and/or exploited.