President Donald Judas Trump had been threatening in increasingly alarming fashion, that Greenland was going to either be bought or invaded, or else. And that two sets f tariffs were to be imposed on the eight European nations, UK included, who sent military personell to Greenland to discuss deployment to defend it.
Meanwhile Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carny, said that the natiopn's troops would deploy and fight a US invasion and a major Danish pension fund it was de-investion in US Government bonds as it was seen as bad investmets.
This was laughed at by a member of Trump's administration, his name is unimportant as is his views. Because Europe owns trillion of dollers of US Government debt, and were they all to dump the stock it would ruin the US economy.
Trump then spoke, rather rambled, to the World Economic Formum, where he may or may not have said that force would or would not be used in securing Greenland as US.
He then lied on Truth Social that some kind of deal had been done with the head of NATO, though the details would be revealled in due course, but he was happy that his aims would be met. And so tariffs planned for the end of January would be scrapped.
Mark Rutte denied that Greenland had been mentioned in their brief meeting.
But go figure.
Trump is a senile old man who has been made the world's most powerful person, and the gatekeepers of the US Constitution and laws have not carried out their duties, allowing the 80 year old man baby tantrum his way across global politics.
But Europe faced him down, and he baulked. This time.
We must not forget this, and plan for a future without support, or needing that support, from the USA.
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