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’m glad libs finally care about us imperialism.
Concern troll* about US imperialism while Trump is in office
Yes neo liberals are all very apt to be concerned. I am very concerned about the reports out of Israel. Not going to change anything, the next shipment of assault rifles to hand to their settlers for free they’ve been using to abuse the west bankers is still going out on borrowed tax money. But I do have, Concern about it. My opponents, they aren’t concerned, it’s because I’m better than they are, and it’s your fault I lost because you didn’t believe I was good hard enough. /s
cue the next blue fascist getting elected and libs going back to business as usual