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"Donald Trump has linked his repeated threats to seize control of Greenland to
his failure to win the Nobel peace prize, as transatlantic tensions over the
Arctic island escalated further and threatened to rekindle a trade war with the
EU.
In an extraordinary text message sent on Sunday to the Norwegian prime
minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, the US president wrote that after being snubbed for
the prize, he no longer felt the need to think “purely of peace”.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for
having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of
Peace,” he wrote, adding that the US needed “complete and total control” of
Greenland.
Trump has ramped up his push to grab the island, a largely self-governing part
of Denmark, in recent weeks, saying that the US would take control of the
Arctic island “one way or the other” and, over the weekend: “Now it is time,
and it will be done!!!”
On Saturday he threatened to impose from 1 February a punitive 10% tariff,
increasing later to 25%, on imports from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France,
Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland unless they dropped their
objections to his plan.
The dispute has plunged trade relations between the EU and the US into fresh
chaos, forcing the bloc to consider retaliatory measures, and also risks
unravelling the Nato transatlantic alliance that has guaranteed western
security for decades."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
