Good for use as a talking point in the next round of nonsense that will start in a few weeks but impossible in practice. The US has been worshipping guns as a religion for 200 years and the Canada-US border has been perforated consistently by smugglers that whole time.

All that noise lol.

First tariffs on “day 1” , then Feb 1, then Feb 4, now Mar 1. I wonder how much more credibility he even has left on this.

Bend over and take what? Trumps declarations have no effect on Canada.

An amazing statement. Truly one of the statements of all time. American tariffs make Canadian exports to Canada less desirable, this very obviously affecting Canada, the sectors of the economy that create those goods, and the workers therin. I don’t even understand how you can type this. Literally just imagine the same sale of goods with and without a tariff.

As tariffs hurt the importing country, not the exporting country

They very obviously hurt both so long as there’s any demand elasticity and especially when there are alternatives sources for the products .

This reminds me more of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

That last zero in the price is critical.

If you’re Denmark, you don’t have the luxury of ignoring this. Trump will escalate this before it’s resolved. My guess is he’ll order the military to stop paying for the US military base in Greenland, start operations that exceed what is in the agreement, and basically try to provoke a response to use as pretense for further escalation. It’s already gone too far for Trump to just back down.

Please. Paper is modern nonsense and I won’t have our society polluted by it. Papyrus or stone tablets only.

It’s open source and people are literally self-hosting it for fun right now. Current consensus appears to be that its not as good as chatGPT for many things. I haven’t personally tried it yet. But either way there’s little to be “suspicious” about since it’s self-hostable and you don’t have to give it internet access at all so it can’t call home.

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ic8zil/yes_you_can_run_deepseekr1_locally_on_your_device/

All that’s going to happen is the US spending the same or more on defence while their relative strength vs everything else will diminish.

Far-right candidates in other countries aren’t openly musing about annexing allies through military force.

All that’s going to happen is that the US will continue spending the same or more of the military, while others will also build up theirs and the relative strength of the US will diminish. You will definitely not be saving those billions.

That’s a you problem. Get your fucking dog back on a leash. Most US voters voted for this and the ones who don’t vote don’t matter.

Most voters voted for this and those who don’t vote don’t matter.

The US is never more than 4 years away from electing a lunatic. Soft power is not really a possibility anymore.

Why is Denmark even offering anything at all

As others have pointed out, the US play here is likely to be stopping payments for the current US military based in Greenland but not leaving, testing its limits (operating outside of the designated areas), and generally just begging for a response. At this point the Danish (and the EU generally) will have to choose - if they do nothing then it’ll encourage more of this BS in Greenland and elsewhere. If they respond with any force it’ll be what Trump wants. He’ll use it as pretense for…whatever he wants to do.

This behaviour will make it far less likely that all of the US international partners will renew military base leases or sign new ones, and long term it will diminish American military power globally, but nobody in MAGA let alone Trump are really thinking beyond the immediate anyways.

So the answer your question, the Danes are trying to avoid all of that BS.

Trump is purposefully threatening Canada to give his canadian conservative buddy Poilievre something to “fight” against, to make him look good

This theory is predicated on 1) Trump remembering who PP is, 2) caring enough about who is running Canada to have it drive policy.

I don’t think either of these things are true.

I haven’t seen that episode in probably 15 years and I still remember exactly what this was.

You seem like a person of sound mind and steady judgment.

The ADL took a break from bashing anti-genocide protesters to tell everyone not to worry about this.