[Alas Babylon!]

Good. Let's buy it.

[ClearCase_guy]

Helps Denmark save face. Now when they sell it to us no one can say they did it out of fear. They just saw a good deal, that’s all.

[SaxxonWoods]

Knew that from the beginning.

[KingLudd]

The US aquiring Greenland would be a win for America and the leftists and globalists can’t have that optic. If it was Obama’s idea, it would already be done, free and with celebration.

[Texas Eagle]

Trump is SCHOOLING these Socialists and grifters (butIrepeatmyself).

[butlerweave]

He’ll make them an offer they can’t refuse ,LOL

[cross_bearer_02]

Anybody with two brain cells to rub together knew that was the case. Trump and his team were just using that as leverage for The Big Ask, and while they were at it, using it to send the left into frothing-at-the-mouth apoplexy fit over it.

But I digress, for the left does lack the aforementioned.

[Antoninus]

Thank God. If he did that, it would mean the end of his presidency.

[NeverTyranny]

Good.

[Texas Eagle]

CNN dug up a fossil, Weird Owl Gore, to refute what President Trump said. 🙄

[Nea Wood]

An account just called “Denmark” posted on Facebook last night saying, “What’s going on, America? Do you want to go to war with us? We’re scared! We thought we were friends!” Oh, the replies! “Don’t worry, Denmark, we here in the US hate Trump just as much as you do.” “We can’t stand that orange toddler!” “If he goes to war with Denmark, I’ll fight on the side of Denmark!” etc. It didn’t look like even one pro-Trump comment in the large thread. Not sure the significance of this, but it was rather discouraging.

[chopperk]

CNN was doing their best to discredit everything Trump said and showed his dem ideals. He was a good journalist at one time.

[chopperk]

CNN was doing their best to discredit everything Trump said and showed his dem ideals. Wolf was a good journalist at one time.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Good.
Now let’s get to work expanding the base we already have there and get Denmark to add some assets as well

[Husker24]

Congress will never appropriate the money.

[ChuckHam]

Only those without a brain thought otherwise.

[chopperk]

CNN interviewed two of the dumbest pols after Trumps speech; Gore and Newsom.

[Celerity]

He proved something though, and he stated it.

The world only responds to threats. There is no reasoning or negotiating. The United States gets the short stick.

Now what are we going to do? I think we may never have the door open to buy it.

He has already stated how important it is to us. That’s a big mistake even in “The Art of the Deal”. He let them know how important it is.

Now the price tag just doubled. Even backing off on the that is not like people are going to stop fighting everything he does. No one will come to like him. The media will still negatively report him, still call him Hitler and still try to get people to kill him.

This was not a good statement. I’m now on board with the idea that the US must exert power. Our previous leadership made that inevitable.

Also, China is about to kill us. We need to posture for eat and let everyone we won’t hold back.

[saleman]

New York TImes lead story:

Troops to Greenland force Trump to back down

[nathanbedford]

We just experienced one of the great climbdowns in American diplomatic history.

Trump had threatened to invade Greenland and expropriate it by force. Five European nations countered by placing a tripwire in Greenland making it politically impossible for Trump to invade.

There were many in this forum who scoffed, saying that such a weak force could not withstand American power. They, like Trump, misconceived the art of negotiation.

These Freepers missed the whole point, the tripwire was not placed to win a war, it was put in Greenland to deter a war and render it politically untenable for Trump to proceed negotiating based on threatening a takeover by force.

Having been checked by European tripwire, Trump abandoned his threats of invasion and countered by threatening to impose tariffs if Europe did not bend to his will and give him Greenland. Again, Trump miscalculated, Europe stood fast and Trump had to go before the world and climb down.

In the end, the US, in effect, was reduced to begging Europe to give it Greenland because those Europeans have been naughty while he has been good. If they don't give Trump Greenland, he said, he "will remember" -a passive aggressive threat that has no more to it than a vain attempt to save face.

The world can breathe a little easier; Trump's ham-fisted negotiating might yet not actually destroy NATO. Many on this forum simply cannot accept that we dodged a bullet.

[Kleon]

I don’t think buying it is an option. Trump started strong, but his messaging on Greenland has been all over the place in the past two days. He’s even started confusing it with Iceland.