European leaders have lined up to condemn Donald Trump’s “new colonialism” and warn that the continent was facing a crossroads as the US president said there was no going back on his goal of controlling Greenland.
After weeks of aggressive threats by Trump to seize the vast Arctic island, which is a largely autonomous part of Denmark, Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said on Tuesday he preferred “respect to bullies” and the “rule of law to brutality”.
Macron told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that now was “not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism”, criticising the “useless aggressivity” of Trump’s pledge to levy tariffs on countries that opposed a US takeover of Greenland.
The US was seeking to “weaken and subordinate Europe” by demanding “maximum concessions” and imposing tariffs that were “fundamentally unacceptable – even more so when they are used as leverage against territorial sovereignty”, he said, wearing sunglasses because of an eye condition.
Anti colonialism when it’s directed towards europe 🤣
Remember the time when Europe ended colonization? It was last century, probably before you were born.
If you think the anti-colonial project is anywhere near complete, I’m dumbfounded. Are you just… not even aware of the existence of the Global South?
Your position is indistinguishable from badly-executed farce. Maybe you should study a lot more history and social science and spend a little less time being a pretend leftist on the Internet.
Oh you’re one of those. Are you talking about the same Global South of which China is a supposed part of it? Get real pal… you need more history and above all more critical thinking, and ideally up to date to the times you’re living on.
PS: but I guess asking for critical thinking to someone with “commie” on the name is asking too much…
I’m not a Marxist communist, if that’s what you mean. I think if you ask just about any actually practicing leftists of basically any stripe whether the age of Western colonialism has actually ended, you will be laughed at.
But it’s clear that you are unlikely to understand what most of these terms mean, so I’ll stop tilting at windmills and move on with my life.