Trump said in a social media post that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland would face the tariff and that it would climb to 25% on June 1 if a deal is not in place for “the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland” by the United States.

Lol. Lmao, even.

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    It would be so incredible if the EU and US tore each other down through their interimperialist dick measuring. Unfortunately I just dont think Europe has the balls to fight back or stand up for itslef in any meaningful way before rolling over to tongue polish US boots again.

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      Maybe controversial, but I would honestly give critical support to European nations that want to free themselves from Washingtons influence and become truly independent.

      That said, I dont think the political class in Europe has much of a spine and the European continent is sadly, in all but name a vassal of the United States.

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        Most of the ruling class in Europe is so embedded in the US order that any change that occurs will never be of their accord or led by them.

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          A world where European leaders kicked out the US troops and bases from their countries in opposition to this would be a better one than this, but in our unfortunate reality those in those position would never get to those positions if they were the had the chutzpah to do so, or they would be blocked by the equally cucked ‘opposition’ or military

          I think the US coup of Whitlam’s Australian government (NATOpedia link) in the 70’s gives a playbook of how lawfare etc would be used to regime change against any ‘democratically elected’ ‘western’ leader who stood up in a meaningful way to the empire