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complianceowl | 1 month ago

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ytoawwhra92|1 month ago

> acquire land via direct negotiations with Greenland natives

"Greenland does not want to be controlled by the US. Greenland does not want to be owned by the US." - Jens-Fredrik Nielsen, Greenland PM

This view is shared by ~95% of Greenlanders.

You can't unilaterally enter "direct negotiations" with people to purchase their belongings. The active and willing participation of both parties is a key element of a genuine negotiation.

etc-hosts|1 month ago

I think we should all be more shocked the US kidnapped the leader of another country.

OrvalWintermute|1 month ago

That previous US leaders permitted Western Hemisphere nations to get so in bed with rival hegemonies for so long is the shocking thing.

Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis?

jorgemendes|1 month ago

From my point of view in Europe, the trail that Trump is following by persecuting opponents, disregarding and abusing law, deploying a pretorian guard and defending territorial expansionism is in the history books, and is a template followed by Hitler, but by no means only by Hitler. China has no track record of being an expansionist bully that threatens everybody except other bullies, like the USA is doing right now. I never thought of seeing a comic book type dystopia unrolling before my eyes, but that's what I'm seeing and I'm worried because I have children.

histriosum|1 month ago

You clearly DON’T “get it”.. obviously Trump is different than Hitler, but to say he’s nothing remotely close is some serious handwaving.

ICE is acting a LOT like the Gestapo.

Trump is telling obvious lies and his supporters simply parrot it as fact. That was a big part of Hitlers power, the propaganda machine that made it acceptable for otherwise intelligent people to pretend to believe the obvious lies.

Trump is aggressively threatening to expand the empire, under similar dubious security reasons.

How much does history need to rhyme before you actually notice?

ogogmad|1 month ago

> The EU and Canada is [sic] upset because of Trumps use of force [...] to acquire land via direct negotiations with Greenland natives

A lie. Opinion polls suggest 85% of Greenlanders oppose the territory joining the US.

> As Americans

Would you bloody stop? Most of us here aren't Americans.

intothemild|1 month ago

You're right. Trump isn't Hitler...

Hitler's dead.