Greenland is testing Europe's willingness to stand up to Trump. It's failing | Nathalie Tocci
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It would be naïve to fully rely on the old way of diplomacy, but it would mean certain defeat to do business on the terms of authoritarians. Trump wants unilateral, flashy diplomacy, because that's where he wins. Small countries like Denmark need to work to bolster multilateral large-alliance rules based diplomacy, because that's where they win.
By not rising to the bait, but instead presenting a calm, unified European response that there is no way Trump can buy Greenland, but that they're happy to help him achieve whatever policy he's using to justify this invasion talk, they at least have a chance of staving him off long enough that the whole thing fizzles out.
This approach also makes it a lot harder for Trump to actually make good on his threats. He'll have to start a conflict with the whole EU, and he'll end up looking like a guy who pisses on a cooperative ally rather than the strong man who beats down uppity foreigners.
And yes, that's probably also fine by him, but it at least doesn't play into his hand.
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Yes. Don't feed the troll. A lot more people need to learn this.
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Living in Europe, I'm more concerned about it being US+Russia+China against the EU at this point.
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Both Putin and Trump want to break up the EU so they can pick off individual countries.
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And Netanyahu
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Do you mean WWIII?
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What a bullshit article is this.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nathalie-tocci
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What a twist, the movies write themselves.
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This troll it's fed enough, when is diabetes going to do its job?
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Correct. He can't put a tariff specifically on Denmark at all.
The only way to target Denmark specifically is by putting a tariff on goods that are exclusively made in Denmark.
That would be a bad idea, since the main export to USA is medicine. The Americans are already moaning about the price of medicine, so it'll interesting to see their reaction if Trump raises the price further for no good reason.
