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EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'
- usrnm 9mo agoI'm sure that every polititian in the EU is deeply concerned, isn't it enough?
- kasperni 9mo agoIrrelevant?? Millions of obese Americans will disagree.
- dboreham 9mo agoAt first I thought you meant bacon. But then remembered decent bacon like from Denmark is illegal in the US. Then I realized what you mean. But Lilly makes the same drug so probably not a practical issue.
- expedition32 9mo agoI feel bad for Xi Jinping the man has been non stop drinking champagne for the last 2 years.
- reallymental 9mo agoThe aggressive nature of the response drops off a cliff after the second paragraph. Hard to take all this seriously.
- oytis 9mo agoCautiously abandon caution
- dybber 9mo agoEscalate to deescalate. Trump doesn’t understand that Greenland is a ~country~ self-gorverning territory in itself in the Kingdom of Denmark. Just like Australia is country in itself in the Commonwealth. England would never be able to sell Australia to the US, just as we in Denmark are not able to sell Greenland. The only way forward is trade war it seems and it would be better to escalate it quickly in order for Trump to understand the message.
- utilize1808 9mo agoI don't understand. Are you implying that Greenland can decide to sell itself then?
- hermanzegerman 9mo agoThey can, but they made abundantly clear that they don't want have anything to do with the US
- master-lincoln 9mo agoCountries can be sold?
- tjpnz 9mo agoNot in a meaningful way which Greenlanders would submit to. There would be constant unrest and civil disobedience, nothing would function, and bringing in your own people (including the armed forces) to keep things barely working wouldn't be a solution either.
- VladStanimir 9mo agoUnfortunately Greenland as a whole has 50.000 people in total of which 20.000 live in largest city and the rest scattered across 19 others. Thats about the size of a small town in the US, the country may be big in territory but not in population.
- hopelite 9mo agoIt happens all the time. America and the EU are bought and paid for. The funniest part is that they’re being paid for with the very money the buyers plunder with the left hand, only to use the right hand to purchase the treasonous dominant class. It’s like a sleight of hand magic trick pulled on an infant that is then gleeful for the deception.
- dybber 9mo agoGreenlanders could vote to be completely independent, yes. That is the situation right now. However, Trump has done everything to turn Greenlanders away, and not done anything to convince them of independence would be good for them, so a vote for independence will likely fail catastrophically right now. Independence is many decades away, as they would really have to build a stronger economy to make it happen, but that is the direction Greenlanders would like to go, at least if you asked them 2 years ago.
- pzo 9mo agoIts so bad that these day such posts are flagged in HN and you cannot have any discussion about it. Feels like censorship and HN not doing anything about it to be at least transparent about providing some stats how many times something got flagged and how flagging algorithm works so we at least have some confidence that it's not abused by bots
- tjpnz 9mo agoI seem to remember having the ability to vouch for submissions like I can comments. But it's never an option for these. Why?
- r721 9mo agoYou can vouch when submission is marked "[flagged] [dead]", and this one is just "[flagged]".
- tledakis 9mo agowe probably need a european HN equivalent
- biglyburrito 9mo agoHackeur News
- owebmaster 9mo agoHacked News
- piva00 9mo agoI believe what Bessent is leaving aside, probably not out of ignorance but for rhetoric sake, is that Denmark isn't alone, alone it would be a small player (while still being disproportionately bigger for its relative size and population) but the Nordics tend to band together, the Nordic Council is one of the oldest and closest alliances in the modern age. With the Nordic Council it becomes 22 million people with a GDP of US$ 2.2 trillion, the same GDP as Canada, close to Italy, Russia, and Brazil. You piss off Denmark and the rest of the Nordic Council members will support it. On top of all of that you then have the European Union, in which the majority of members will also put support behind one of its members (notwithstanding the likes of Hungary, and perhaps Slovakia with its latest government). It's really sad to watch this rhetoric unfold from the USA, it starts with the heads but now we see it creeping into comments here on HN. It's bizarre how easily American public opinion is manipulated.
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- wolvesechoes 9mo ago> On top of all of that you then have the European Union, in which the majority of members will also put support behind one of its members (notwithstanding the likes of Hungary, and perhaps Slovakia with its latest government). Please take time to check how different EU countries responded to US threats against Denmark. It is not uniform, even if you exclude Hungary and Slovakia.