Il capo della NATO sulle minacce di Trump alla Groenlandia: “Calmati, va bene”.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-mark-rutte-donald-trump-greenland-threats-chill-out/
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37 commenti
Can’t help but add in a narrator voice: ‘It wasn’t. It wasn’t fine. Like at all’.
While it does sound lame, it’s his job as NATO boss to respond this way. His task is to keep the alliance together (or at least keep up that appearance).
…from the man who called Trump “Daddy”.
I guess he knows how to push Trump’s buttons.
This is the guy that allowed Royal Dutch Shell to invest in Nordstream 2 less than a year after the Russians shot down a Dutch airliner. “The economy” was his excuse at the time yet Shell went on to lose billions when the pipeline was closed down due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Hes a dangerous opportunist with basically zero morals who will do pretty much anything to further his own position.
Pathetic
I thought Rutte might be good but it’s apparent he’s trying to figure out how to suck up to Trump’s America without losing support, I’m afraid that win’t happen.
Rutte’s advice sounds exactly like telling someone to just relax and try to enjoy it when they’re being subjected to an unfair and overwhelming force.
Mr. Rutte, do you happen to have any other advice to offer?
Remember when Trump didn’t want the Romanian Klaus Johanis to be in today’s Rutte’s place?
Because he knew that Klaus was solid like a rock, and he was not able to do what he is doing today to Mark Rutte.
His silence tells us all we need to know about what he thinks.
His job is the keep the alliance together. If his best option is to be quiet, that means there is nothing positive to say.
He has no active memories anywho
Invite Trump to a tournament of golf with all NATO PM members, let him win. He will brag about it until he has a stroke and never think of Greenland anymore
The greenland situation is really a test for EU since we arent far from reality were our closed ”ally” might become our enemy and the contry we worked so hard to distance ourselfs from might have to become our ally. I am not saying that we should come closer to Russia all I am saying is that drastic actions should be taken but since EU is plagued by economical failures, questionable unity, leaders and a overload of biocracy, is that it will be hard to see any serious action.
While I understand that his position has to be one of de-escalation, the wording is atrocious.
Sure, let’s try to work towards a solution, but nobody is anywhere near “chilling out”, and things are definitely not “fine”.
If anyone can cause Trump to change his mind in a way where he would think he’s come up with the idea himself, it’s Mark Rutte.
Let me guess, it’s just an exercise. And don’t mind the little green men.
Rutte is an us-phile to the core. He can’t be trusted in this situation
Every time you think Mark Rutte has hit rock bottom Daddy puts on more lube and makes a bigger fool of him. Are “leaders” like Rutte truly the best that Europe can do? If so then Europe is now entering its “century of humiliation” with the US, Russia, and China all declaring open season. The US taking Greenland will only be the first of the unequal treaties that Europe will be forced to sign as its powerful new colonial masters come to carve up the continent and extract concessions for their benefit.
he and vdl are the same (it’s not a compliment 😶)
I find it a bit amusing that people still think that this kind of diplomacy – that normal thinking people can decode – has any effect on Trump and his band of baboons.. They see this kind of talk as weakness, if they see it at all (and actually understand it, which i doubt)
Rutte was a terrible choice for Secretary General.
The guy should resign. He says that about this and Russia violating NATO territory. He’s useless.
Here’s my new theory:
Trump threatens Greenland, forcing Europe to move troops there. Troops that could otherwise have been used to help shore up Ukraine. So making it harder for Ukraine to prevail. Which, of course, only goes to help a certain bum chum that Trump has in a particular cuntry east of Europe.
My guess is there will be some deal.
Not an invasion, I hope I’m right.
Just something good enough for Trump so he can write a great tweet.
He will say he saved NATO by making the deal solving yet another international crises he is solely responsible for.
We need to take Trumps tantrums serious, but he lacks a lot of support for a Greenland invasion compared to the Venezuela thing, that was a lot of work and the only result is he can say he is the president there and he stole some oil.
But the oil companies that got a heads up are not even interested. He has no plan for Venezuela.
He was also going to bomb Colombia, but now he’s planning to be best friends with the president.
But he doesn’t understand no and it’s big on the map. So we should be worried.
But the generals would probably prefer to bomb the cartels than invade Greenland.
If he invades or not. The damage to the US reputation is completely done.
No EU country or the UK wants to better the relationship with the US. The UK is even looking for more ways to further soft join the EU.
We will just have to wait how demented and crazy he will go and if people can somewhat steer him with saying how great he is …
And Rutte’s job is keeping the US in NATO so he can’t say deploy British troops in Greenland, he has to suck up and smile and write love letters or the colder relax when things are serious.
He is not the boss of Nato
It’s Trump’s distraction this week to divert attention from the Epstein files.
He also made obsequious remarks to Trump (“He’s the Daddy) quite recently, so his tone right now is unsurprising.
I get that there’s a line to be towed when working with a megalomaniacal leader of the USA, and that it’s ultimately to keep order etc but I can’t imagine having to be this spineless for a living.
If Trump does do something crazy, then Rutte will NOT be viewed favourably in the history books.
It’s clearly a make or break time for Europe. I hope there is a lot going on that we don’t know about. But if I was the EU Emperor I would have tried diplomacy first, then sending only EU peeps Trumpy likes to meet with him, bribing next and only then look for other options. It is time to take this threat extremely seriously, but stay cool and rational at the same time: and no, this is not the time to be proper and play by the rules.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/european-commissioner-says-us-military-takeover-greenland-would-be-end-nato-2026-01-12/
* European commissioner says US military takeover of Greenland would be end of NATO*
SALEN, Sweden, Jan 12 (Reuters) – The European Union can help provide security for Greenland, should Denmark request it, the European Commissioner for Defence and Space said on Monday, warning that a U.S. military takeover of Greenland would be the end of NATO.
Trump has said the United States must own Greenland, an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark, to prevent Russia or China occupying the strategically located and minerals-rich Arctic territory. He says a U.S. military presence there is not enough.
Denmark and the U.S., both NATO members, are scheduled to meet this week to discuss Greenland. Greenland and Denmark have said that Greenland is not for sale, but Trump has not ruled out taking it by force.
“I agree with the Danish prime minister that it will be the end of NATO, but also among people it will be also very, very negative,” Commissioner Andrius Kubilius told Reuters at a security conference in Kubilius also said Europe needed to build up its military capabilities, regardless of whether they could rely on U.S. help – but that any U.S. withdrawal from NATO would be very tough.
“It will be a very big challenge to be ready to defend Europe, being independent, being without the United States,” he said.
“The question would be how we can use in that case NATO structures, how they can be, you know, become a basis for European pillar of NATO. But NATO such as it is now definitely will not exist anymore.”
Trump said last week the U.S. would always support NATO and that Russia and China only feared the alliance as long as the United States was a member.
Many NATO countries have substantially increased military spending in recent years, following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and demands by Trump for European allies to invest more in their own defenc Sweden.
“What’s that?”
“Oh, i-it’s just Trump. Just leave him alone, he’ll tire himself out.”
Rutter is Baghdad Bob at this point
I forgot there is supposed to be a secretary of NATO 😭
I don’t understand what people think an alliance is. The way I see it, if you and I are in a close alliance, then what’s mine is also yours. So why would Denmark oppose the U.S. ruling Greenland if they’re allies?
Most people who defend Denmark’s position are redefining alliance as: *”we cooperate when convenient, but remain fully separate when it suits us.”* That’s not a total, end-state alliance where the distinction between *mine* and *yours* is artificial. Seems like Denmark is holding anti-alliance position.
This guy is a massive incompetent, the moment he called daddy trump was his final dismissal, it is incredible how NATO picked such a poor profile and a low IQ guy.
It is wild that one person’s job is to make decisions for a billion people.
‘Chill out, this is fine’.
No, I don’t think I will.
Why is not the Franco-German Brigade already deployed to Greenland? One thing is to invade a country when noone is there. Another is to attack EU troops on EU ground.
As NATO’s boss, he looks like someone who can be easily be manipulated.