from breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 21 Jan 2026 20:36
https://lemmy.ca/post/59031628
President Trump said Wednesday that he was calling off tariff threats that he had issued in an effort to secure American ownership of Greenland, saying he had reached a framework agreement with Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, over the future of the icy Danish territory.
The announcement on Mr. Trump’s social media network came hours after he told European leaders in Davos, Switzerland, that he would not settle for anything less than the United States taking ownership of Greenland — while rescinding a threat to invade it. Mr. Trump had promised dire economic and security consequences for Europe if he did not get his way.
Writing on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said Wednesday evening that he and Mr. Rutte had “formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations.”
The president did not immediately give any details of that framework, and notably did not say that the United States would own Greenland, even when asked directly about ownership by a reporter in Davos soon after posting the announcement. Mr. Rutte and the leaders of Denmark did not release details either. NATO did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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He’ll find someone and something else that make him threat with tariffs in 5…4…3…2…
Isn’t he pissed at Canada for pointing out he’s a fool?
He’s moreso pissed that Canada’s economy is failing and he isn’t responsible for it. (Yes the tarrifs hurt Canada’s economy too but their economy was already pretty fucked because for decades Canada’s economy was building and selling housing and not much else.)
Canadian here. Economy still not failing. Find some other bullshit to ragebait with.
Go ask a someone under 30 if they can afford a house and get back to me. The RCMP has speculated the next generation may riot when they realize they are poorer than their parents.
It’s simply a matter of too much avocado toast.
Trump is pissed because Canada’s record high housing market is too expensive for gen z?
That is the argument you’re making FYI and it’s ludicrous on almost every conceivable level.
The first half of my comment was a joke
oof. on par with your username tho.
Like get better jokes bro
Citation?
nationalpost.com/…/secret-rcmp-report-warns-canad…
That’s a national post opinion piece. It’s not worth the cost of electricity it took to display it
That’s not just in Canada, a lot of western nations have housing cost issues. That’s just rampant and unchecked capitalism. And not an indicator of a failing economy.
We also have grocery and telecom monopolies, stagnating wages and poor worker investment and production compared to similar nations. Canada is also experiencing a brain drain as skilled people leave for better cost of living & less taxation.
Yes absolutely true, same goes for several Asian countries too.
The ability to buy a house isn’t the only indicator of an economy. Neither is GDP, or CPI, or any of the other numerous stats if used in isolation. Millennials (and their cusps - xennials and zennials) already accepted that we’re poorer than our parents, financially at least, and we didn’t riot. We voted differently and continuously push for other things.
Okay but pretty much all the numbers are bad. If it was just housing or just price gouging on grocceries we would be fine but the reality is many factors of the economy are working against young & blue collar Canadians.
hahahahaha! Oh, my days…
Alright, calm down everyone! As expected, Canada’s economy is absolutely fine. Nothing unusual here. This one’s just not realised the things they’re experiencing are totally normal everywhere in the world. Canada’s actually got it quite good compared to most everywhere else.
That has nothing to do with Canada or any one particular country, jack ass. That’s just late stage capitalism. Billionaire class slowly but surely, generation after generation, increasing the gap and fucking over the little guys. Every generation gets worse, and now, globally, we’re living in the age when all of that shit since Reagenomics hit the scene has now started to come home to roost.
Saying that that is a “Canadian” problem is like saying that climate change is a “Canadian” problem. Yes…technically it is, but it’s also a US problem, a UK problem. A French, German and Italian problem. Because the over-arching problem has nothing to do with countries, but with the elites that pay for those governments the world over to do their bidding while fucking the rest of us over.
Stop being an idiot.
Canada has it significantly worse than many other nations, and the bigger problem is that housing bubble is the backbone of its economy. Other nations have expensive houses but their economies aren’t as reliant on keeping those houses expensive as Canada’s is.
Canadian here too. Shits worse now than 30 years ago for sure. Even 10. We’re on the same path as the Americans, just 10ish years behind. Poilievre would have sped run us into mini america but we need to change course. Their present is our future. Life is bleaker in Canada now than I’ve ever seen it, and it’s not on Carney or Trudeau. A good economy does not a happy population make.
Canada a really beautiful country with a lot of really nice things going for it, but those nice things will disappear if people don’t put up a resistance. Just look at what the con leaders are doing to healthcare, or Dougie’s blatant antidemocratic bills around Ontario Place, or even the recent police-led Nazi rally in Toronto. There is still time to turn course but it’s going to be too late soon…
Signed with love from Ontario
Agreed. We “stepped up to the plate” last election. The next one is either gonna be a home run or a strike out. Unfortunately, I suspect strike out. Division politics and propaganda works.
Watch Carney’s speech to the WEF the other day. I’m fully convinced things will get better in Canada as we diversify and divest ourselves away from being joined at the hip to the USA.
From my shallow understanding and my observations, I sadly agree that Canada is also succumbing to the oligarchs, like everywhere. It’s painful when so many deny the reality of what is happening globally. We are all on a stove top in different pots being heated at different rates.
Jump out of the pot is always an option.
Yes please, but you must realize, that it is not a few that need to jump to prevent meal
That’s how we on Australia feel too, America light, our pollies see what the seppos do and emulate it a few years later
You’re getting downvoted to hell but you’re not wrong. Our reliance on housing has fucked us to the point we need to change now, or we won’t make it. Canadians who have it don’t see the problem. Canadians who don’t, and can’t, see it more clearly every day. We have a NIMBY problem nationwide, and it’s no longer about backyards.
Part of why Canada is in this situation is refusal to acknowledge it and “kick the can down the road” policies. And it isn’t all on the feds, provinces and municipalities share a lot of blame as well. It certainly isn’t too late to change but we’d need to make the right choices.
Opening cities to denser development, transit, and walkability would increase housing supply, reduce transportation costs, and could improve our social spaces. This all could help reduce the rising extremist political division, the type of division where you can’t be friends with someone who votes differently and exclussively on that basis.
Agreed. Our provinces have a convenient autonomy that allows for destroying a province while blaming the Feds. Its a system that can work well with the right people, and get taken advantage of with the wrong ones. Division politics works. And its been working, but its not too late to stop.
Its the Canadian way to blame the prime Minister for things that are your premier’s responsibility/fault
Haha yep. Division politics at its finest. We have a good system, it just doesn’t account for the sociopaths who rise to the top.
Art of the Deal. It has been a pattern since day one. The fact that it has destabilized modern western society be damned if he gets to feel like he has the upper hand.
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Taco Tuesday, just 1 day late
He doesn’t know what day it is.
Much like trash pickup, he’s a day late due to the holiday.
What did Rutte promise his daddy now?
It seems the Danish are wondering the same thing.
Probably nothing. What could he promise?
Given Denmark and Greenland seem to not have any idea what he’s talking about, this is most likely Trump caving and still trying to get a “Victory!” headline.
Thats the vibe i get.
I think hes been told, emphatically that he doesn’t have any support for a military intervention, nor additional tariffs.
He’s spoken to NATO guy whos said “you dont have the cards” so the framework of a deal hes talking about is that the US can increase its deployment there (which it could’ve before) and call that a victory.
Not to sell off all their US bonds. Europe can tank the US economy any time they want.
How many times has Daddy said something only to be proven a liar by someone else in the conversation?
It is far more likely that the Danes selling a token number of US Treasurys as a shot across the bow soiled a number of handmade silk suits on Wall St, and someone was able to convey to the inner circle exactly what that fucking means, and that’s how we got Taco Wednesday. Note also last year how, when Japan started suggesting the idea of selling off Treasurys themselves, suddenly Japan’s tariff arrangement instantly improved.
And that’s only one part of what Europe could do. The anti-coercion instrument isn’t nicknamed “the bazooka” for nothing, and just because Europe has been our allies for 80 years doesn’t mean they are without means of both prevention and retaliation. It’s the orange excrescence’s fault for thinking nobody could do anything back, when that is the farthest fucking thing from the truth.
Honestly, having the rest of the western hemisphere unite in their loudest, strongest NO in tandem with Mark Carney clearly outlining a post-US-dominant world order built on fluid alliances is the best thing that could be happening to all of us right now, no matter where we live.
And stock market goes back up after his friends bought in the dip.
The NYT is still intent on portraying these as a sequence of reasoned policy positions, and not the aimless meanderings of dementia writ large on the world stage.
Yep I’m getting pretty sickened by what I hear on corpo media about this and other recent events. Sanewashing might be the term, but at the least they try to hash out reasonings and strategy and speculation like it’s Sunday Night Football instead of the full-blown fascist thrashing that it is. These news orgs stumbling over themselves to take more of the dollary dick, desperate to maintain the thin veneer of civility that has been cultivated by their owners over generations. Fools and cowards the lot of them.
They been doing this since his first term. Basically translating his insane gibberish into things that sound like relatively reasonable statements. They would have whole articles about something he said without a single direct quote from him.
Or the intentional actions of a person who understands that his insane ramblings can cause stock market drops and that walking back those insane ramblings will cause stock markets to recover, allowing him and his buddies to make more money.
Same play, everytime isn’t it?
Ridiculous threat.
A “deal” is made.
Capitulation.
“Look at what a great dealmaker I am!”
If this is apparent to a dumbass like me, I cannot see why the media cannot simply say it out loud.
The problem is that Venezuela looked just like that too, until the fuckers actually invaded the capital, bombed it, and kidnapped their leader.
So did Minneapolis, now they’re working really hard at starting a civil war.
It’s like you roll the dice, 9 out of 10 times it turns into useless mouth noises and 1 out of 10 they actually do it.
Hard to stay relaxed and laugh about this shit, man.
Oh shit, who knew allied governments could have mutually beneficial defense agreements 😲😲😲😲😲😲
What exactly can a Dutch politician promise in regards to selling someone else’s country?
At this point Rutte isn’t a Dutch politician, but the “leader” of NATO. Sadly
He can sell the centuries old US /Denmark agreement as one he achieved and the orange moron would believe him?
Never trust a rapist.
And if he (so his oligarch handlers) want those trade agreements and treasuries back, hold the US accountable. Get concessions with very documented repercussions for when he inevitably tries to stop once he gets what he wants.
Trump ALWAYS repeats wharever he talked last told him. Just wait for him to talk again with whorever is behind the idea of the US owing Greenland and he’s going to be in it again
*pimpever
In his first admin, watching his tweets was as good as watching Fox News.
TACO…
Someone like Rutte should whisper in his ear “Donald, our intelligence people are hearing rumors that they are moving to replace you soon with Vance and Miller. Just know that when that happens, we’ll grant you asylum in Europe.” And lean back and watch as he starts firing every one of his cronies.
Rutte is Trump’s most loyal ally and friend.
TACO Trump
Which Greenland doesn’t have full sovereignty over so…
Until he talks to someone else. He’s just parroting the last thing someone said to him.
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Uh huh… What do you wanna bet he was told that every single American military base in the EU would be closed and off limits for US use if NATO was broken apart.
I would have paid anything to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.
Of course Trump will Roy Cohn it and boast the US came out triumphant and the sun shone brightly out the crack of his ass and it awed everyone in the EU that saw it…
pffft!
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Did Mr Rutte have to very patiently explain that the US already effectively militarily controls Greenland by the presence of bases, US Imperial influence, and the framework of the NATO alliance, perchance?
Jtf2 is closer
Best soundtrack to read this news to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sSIfWFLP-Y
Personally, I think this is more appropriate.
TACO
Not that his word is worth a discontinued penny that was accidentally digested and shat out by a coffee bean civet
This was a distraction from Venezuela, which was a distraction from Epstein, which was a distraction from the fact we elected this guy twice.
The orange turd is going to expect more blowjobs like this and Europe seems happy to pacify the fascists with it.