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.
I don’t think they’ll do anything about it. They don’t want to disrupt their economy even a little.
I hope I’m wrong, but European leaders are acting a lot like US dems and its pissing me off.
They are the same beast. The super rich have co-opted all the mainstream parties, the left options are all status quo, whose reason for being is preventing popular reform. It’s actually going to doom them all to mirror fascist dictatorships with the US and Russia helping them both win and fix their own elections as they plan on doing in the US.
It’s because of worthless sold out corporatists like macron and starmer that their far right will win, it’s inevitable without popular reform minded opposition. Everyone knows they are being screwed, that far right are the only ones promising to do anything about it and we all know voters don’t know better and or won’t vote for worthless sold out hacks indefinitely because the other guy is worse.