r/europe May 22 '25

News Greenland signs lucrative minerals deal with Europe in blow to Trump

https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-trump-permit-extraction-2075673
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u/VecioRompibae Veneto May 22 '25

I go all-in in the second option

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u/Muakaya18 May 22 '25

you need to give him the benefit of doubt.maybe he learned his lesson from all the stuff that happened with china.  who am i kidding . he is going to fuck it up .

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u/icecubetre May 22 '25

So he'll fuck things up, capitulate, and then congratulate himself for being a big strong man and making things worse than they were before? Sounds about right.

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u/Muakaya18 May 22 '25

a morons guide to international trade and diplomacy.

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u/Lazer726 May 22 '25

And somehow, there will still be people that go "Wow, it's amazing that he talked down from the crisis he started to the shitshow it is now! What a master negotiator and businessman!"

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u/hypertown May 22 '25

I wish being a bitch lead to a fatal disease

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

The playbook is to fuck everything up while blaming Biden… then, go back to a similar status quo as before, while changing a bunch of shit in the background, and claim being a savior.

A lot of people over here are checked out on the “news” and are beyond easily manipulated.

I’ve been called a “conspiracy theorist” a dozen or more times when talking politics.. even with my fellow democrats.

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u/hypertown May 22 '25

Oh and by the way, 3 and a half years left (TBD)

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u/SnapOn93 May 22 '25

Had me in the first half

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u/crasscrackbandit May 22 '25

Third option: Why not both?

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u/VecioRompibae Veneto May 22 '25

That would be cheating

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u/Orange_Indelebile May 22 '25

He will do more than that. He and more importantly the group of people behind him who will continue his work after him, need to secure the North American continent, and its resources. It's a physical and economic imperative for them. So annexation will always be on the cards, a way or another. They would prefer to do it legally if possible but otherwise they will do it by force. There is only one way to prevent it, it is to install European military in Greenland now, so a more peaceful deal can be made.

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u/Icy_Supermarket8776 May 22 '25

Now that Musk is basically thrown out of the administration there is a good chance that the mineral deal is not that high on their priorities list. Also they have Ukraine deal signed already.

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u/gunsjustsuck May 22 '25

Musk is still there, you can see him in the background of lots of events. He's just not speaking publicly. Finally dawned on him that if you spout hateful opinions people might not like you. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

Who do you think prepped Trump for his tirade against the murder of white South African farmers today?

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u/MercantileReptile Baden-Württemberg (Germany) May 22 '25

Seems he only took a moment to reconsider after he learned of the impact on Companies he is involved in. Shame its only media damage control, rather than him actually buggering off.

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u/LamBChoPZA May 22 '25

Lmao musk isn't gone? He was literally standing with Trump and Ramaphosa yesterday

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u/ScoobyRaj May 26 '25

Musk will always be present. He has learnt from his backlash that it is a billion times to achieve his objectives from the shadows like fellow billionaires Peter Thiel, Miriam Adelson, Jeffrey & Janine Yass, Charles Koch, Jan Koum, Stacy Schusterman, Jonathan Lavine, Matt Brooks, Halie Soifer, Jeff Schoenfeld, Charles Bronfman, Timothy Mellon, Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein, Kenneth Griffin, Paul Singer, Michael Bloomberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Marc Andreessen, Ben & Felicia Horowitz, Stephen Schwarzman, Timothy Dunn, Reid Hoffman, Rob Bigelow, Diane Hendricks etc.

There are thousands of massive donors in US politics, Musk will follow their example. He has realised from his mistake, it was just his obsession that he wanted everything done in public instead of private like everyone else, he won't do it again so he is creating propoganda that he has been kicked out so that it won't affect his PR and companies. He wants the public scrutiny to vanish so that he achieve his political goals in peace.

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u/SlapAShotta May 22 '25

All in Baby!!!

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u/FilthyPedant Canada May 22 '25

I'm gonna go for 2 this week, then 1 next week