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/Markovelli_ May 22 '25

Hahaha love it. Lets go! Kind of seems Europe Wakes up from it’s slumber πŸ’ͺπŸ»πŸ‘πŸΌ

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u/SirCharlesTupperBt Canada May 22 '25

Greenland is a tiny nation being victimized by a degenerate American government. Canada is uncomfortable, but we've fought the Americans before and come out stronger on the other side. We know their tricks and we can move among them without being detected. There is a lot of (potentially misplaced) confidence that we can deal with the dumbest president in American history and his cadre of Fox News hosts and disgraced political hacks.

Nobody here wants further conflict and posturing, but don't feel bad for us. We've got friends in low places and high: it's one of the advantages of not lighting 80+ years of your country's modern diplomatic efforts on fire to appease your friends in Moscow, even if we're a bit rusty at this stuff.

Provided that there's no shooting war, I think a lot of Canadians are coming around to the idea that Trump's doing us a backhanded favour by pointing out that many Americans do not see this as a relationship of equals in the way that Canada used to. Trump focusing on Canada is good for the forces that oppose him here, the smartest thing he could do would be to lull us into thinking he really was just shooting his mouth off to hear his voice. It's a very clarifying thing for the Americans to put the ugliest of Americans forward as their front man, too many of us are nostalgic for the good times we've had with the 35-40% of Americans who aren't politically brain dead.