La minaccia tariffaria di Trump contro la Danimarca rischia di scontrarsi con l’Unione Europea

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When your enemy is doing something stupid. Don’t interrupt them.

I don’t know what the issue is Denmark should offer to sell Greenland to the US for a reasonable price of only 200 Trillion USD. Trump can then “negotiate” it down to 100 Trillion Dollars. It is pertinent to add that the US GDP for 2023 was only 27 Trillion USD and if Trump agrees to buy Greenland is should theoretically cripple the US.

Source: [https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=US](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=US)

If the EU is a single market doesn’t he have to impose tariffs as a bloc? 

This is so fucking dumb. I didn’t expect anything else from him.

Apart from the difficulty of applying tariffs to one member of a trading group I wonder how much the Danish export to America and if they would even notice.

Trump at a press conference last week told reporters that the U.S. needs Greenland “for national security purposes,” claiming that “people really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it, but if they do, they should give it up, because we need it for national security purposes.”

Even fucking putin was more subtle in his territorial claims when he invaded Ukraine.

Americans write this off as brinkmanship but I don’t think they’d find it so funny if the role was reversed.

Europe needs to start divesting itself from America economically, politically and militarily as to be blunt large segments of the American population do support this rhetoric.

What will it take for the average r/Europe to stop having this Stockholm syndrome mentality towards the USA?

The USA has thrown the Europe industry under the bus, they totally cannibalized the continent’s corporations, capital and will not come to Europe’s aid.

They have forced their IT corporations and technology on Europe while fighting aggressively against China’s.

I’m only onboard with fighting China’s influence off if that means also fighting the USA’s influence.

The one that’s talking very openly about expanding into Greenland, Canada and Panama is on the other side, he has a political base to make it.

If what the former president of South Korea tried, that is, Trump while in office declares martial law for whatever reason (a second assassination attempt by Antifa, a narco/terrorist attack, or whatever) do you think that the people will stand in his way or rally behind him?

Who has guns? His base? Or the rival electorate?

But a lot of the comments are “yeah, we should let them have Greenland because they will help us against China’s expansion” or “Hur, dur, Orange man is stupid”.

Denmark exports roughly 13 billion dollars worth of stuff to the USA, or 10% of all their exports. Of these 13 billion, over half are medical supplies (Ozempic, wink wink). The other way around, it imports roughly 5 billion a year from the USA, which make up some 4% of their entire imports. From those, over 40% are fossils.

From a pure economical point of view Denmark is very well equipped to deal with Trumps tariffs, as they export little to them and what they export is crucial for the american market and “the talk” right now whereas their imports are small and can be replaced by others easily as well.

The danger lies not in the tariffs but in the wider geopolitical implications of allies going at it. Trump did so with the whole of the EU in his first term and back then the EU was already weak geopolitically but still stronger than now, almost 10 years of decline later.

Going by the news we get, the EU will submit to Trump, even when the numbers would favour them in some fields (like here with Denmark).

Denmark lost 47 men in Afghanistan helping the US after 9/11. They were there for 10 years. It is shameful how they are being treated. The EU has their back.

Biden has done a great job on American economy, trump will crash it, destroy Medicaid and force more people onto the streets. Europe must stand together at this point America is no longer a reliable ally

Well, I propose a new special ASLM sales tax while we bring our chip making manufacturing back, and then straight up ban.

Let’s see how we’ll Apple, Nvidia, Tesla. Etc do without this European company.