European leaders, if they can even be called that, abandoned even the pretense of a rules based world in their eagerness to serve as obedient vassals. By supporting the blatant violation of international law in Gaza, they shattered the very principles that could have shielded them from the same fate.
Europe has actively dismantled the very institutions that could protected it from the predatory ambitions of stronger powers. By embracing “might makes right,” Europe has forfeited its moral authority when the same logic is turned against it. The US will exploit the current state of European weakness mercilessly, reducing it to a dependent appendage, stripped of autonomy and dignity.
Europe stands on the precipice of its own century of humiliation that it’s marching into with eyes wide open. It’s is no longer a player at the table of global power, and now finds itself on the menu.
I don’t think Europe’s naked hypocrisy w/r/t Gaza really factors in to Europe’s table vs. menu status.
In the grand scheme of things I agree, the US wouldn’t have respected European sovereignty either way.
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Denmark only had a crisis meeting, which just means they have an unscheduled meeting in the government. The country is not in any crisis mode.
They are shitting themselves in Copenhagen over the Trump Greenland crisis. The Danish regime is increasingly paranoid that some leak, some unscripted comment could anger their transatlantic overlord. Initially the regime was projecting national unity, giving confidential briefings on the crisis to the leaders of all parties in parliament. However, since the infamous phone call the regime has retreated into its shell, sharing its secrets with only the leaders of a chosen few “government-bearing” centrist and right-wing parties, the ones deemed loyal to atlanticist orthodoxy and who can be trusted to keep their mouths shut.
Leaders of business as well as unions has received confidential briefings as well, so they can brace for the coming storm of Trumpian tariffs. However, the regime has told the public very few details about the Trump phone call and only mentioned the American supreme leader’s tantrum by saying that he “can be very direct”.
On her Facebook page (her preferred line of communication to the public) Danish leader Mette Frederiksen has posted that the regime “can’t tell everything or make statements as quick as other people”, telling the public that they will be kept in the dark until the crisis is resolved.
There has been no official defiance of Trump. Instead, the regime is groveling, their fear palpable as they scramble to prove their loyalty to Washington even as Trump’s boot hovers over their necks. When a fascist Danish MEP told Trump to “fuck off”, voicing the feelings of most people in both Greenland and Denmark, the Danish regime scolded him for being irresponsible, afraid that he might poke the bear.
Meanwhile, it has been hinted that the regime and the “government-bearing” parties has talked behind closed doors of giving Greenland a more equitable relationship to Denmark, of sweetening the deal to keep the colony loyal to Denmark. However, these efforts might end up being a day late and a dollar short as the uncomfortable truth about Trump’s claims that Denmark is being racist to Greenlanders and has failed to develop the island is that they are not exactly false.
Greenlandic elections are coming up and independence is going to be a major issue. Committing to Danish overlordship is not something many Greenlanders desire. Meanwhile, the Danish regime’s attempts to woo Greenland are being further hamstrung by domestic reactionaries raging over economic grants to Greenland and boiling with white supremacist rage at the thought of Greenlanders having the audacity to desire freedom from Danish rule.
Trump’s threats has triggered a profound ideological crisis in Denmark’s political elite. They are completely unprepared to deal with being in the crosshairs of American imperialism. For generations they have been telling themselves that “America is our closest ally!”. They believed America to be their protector, their friend and they turned Denmark into one of Washington’s most obedient puppets, a loyal lapdog by even the most sycophantic Western European standards. But now the protector has become the predator, and the Danish political elite is utterly unprepared to deal with it.
Biden destroyed the Middle East. Trump will destroy the West. One bad thing cancels another.
Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. Not just Biden.
True. They are all war criminals but only Biden is guilty of genocide
The EU should stand united against the US right now. Not because it’s okay for them to own Greenland, but because the people of Greenland are more threatened by the US right now and the EU may be the only effective deterrence from an invasion.
How exactly do you envision the EU being an effective deterrence against the US exactly? The EU is completely dependent on the US militarily, and now that EU won’t trade with Russia, it’s also dependent on the US for energy. The US has the EU bent over a barrel at this point.
Military dependency is not everything… there are other things, where USA is dependent on Europe.
But, I guess right now, nobody can tell what is going to happen next…
there are other things, where USA is dependent on Europe.
Please elaborate… Last I checked, other than imposing imperial interests for the US’ behalf, I can’t recollect a single concrete thing that the US needs the EU for.
So, there is ASML (only company that makes lithography fur sub 4nm chips), pharma industry (many Europe companies/universities RnD are essential for that industry), science as whole is very strong in EU.
Additionally, many trade routes are managed from EU / switzerland. And big investments ate taken by European entities.
Who do you think has more leverage in this relationship, and what stops the US from simply poaching the talent from Europe as the economy there collapses?
Imagine thinking you can ‘simply poach’ the talent from Europe. The US is far from the only country skilled migrants choose, and it’s looking less and less attractive to be a resident by the day.
If the economic situation in Europe continues to deteriorate then people with the means to do so will leave. They might not all go to the US, but that’s not gonna be a small consolation to Europe. The only other real alternative is China because nobody else is funding this kind of research and technology development right now.
Good point, honestly. But, if worst comes to worse, I expect continental Europe to stand with other continental Europeans and their interests before it stands with the likes of the US and UK.
You wouldn’t say that if you knew anything about continental European history.
danish government in crisis mode: “how dare him to think we want to charge him over greenland when we’ll give it for free?”
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