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US President Donald Trump has said he may impose trade tariffs on countries that do not support his plans to take over Greenland.

"I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security," Mr Trump said at the White House.

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Lumping Baltic countries together with Hungary and Slovakia shows you don't actually know much about the political situation there and shouldn't try to make predictions about them.

The rest of your comment is too implausible for me to want to discuss it in detail. I really don't get the impression you've actually thought through any of the scenarios you're coming up with. Canada fighting the most powerful military in the world that completely surrounds it on land? China attacking its biggest individual trading partner (by teleporting soldiers onto the other side of the world somehow) and having anything to gain from destabilising the world economy? Wars aren't carried out in the media, Trump won't be stopped and Greenland won't be defended with a new round of "Trump bad" articles in US media.

Probably, because if they didn’t, there’s no guarantee they wouldn’t be next.

The powerful ones simply wouldn't be next. Weak ones might be, but they in particular won't be able to do shit about Greenland.

The conflict, if it comes to it, will play out through less direct means.