I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
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It's sad and infuriating from our side, too. Our democracy is dead. Our system of checks and balances is dead. So although something like 90% of Americans polled were strongly against attacking our friends and allies, there was somehow no way to stop this travesty. I blame everyone in DC. I am confident we'll get our democracy back. But the loss of our allies is permanent. It's tragic. My silver lining is this: ironically, America alone doesn't need to be armed to the teeth anymore.
@jawarajabbi @randahl We in the #USA also not only do not resent that #Denmark stood up to our vile regime, we thank you for doing so. Your courage helps us by weakening the regime.
"Vaer stolt af Danmark!"
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
@randahl If we ever get out of this somehow, I really really hope the world does *NOT* forget. Make us hurt. Make us remember what we did. Make us remember that we have let it get this far and probably further still.
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@randahl And we/they should be. I can only hope with 100% power that the ones who can actually do something against that idiot will actually DO SOMETHING and not suck up to DonOld again when the going gets a bit rougher.
I'm always looking for ways to reach politicians and ask them/urge them to act.
> ones who can actually do something against that idiot will actually DO SOMETHING
Like there was so much German resistance against Hitler.
The US is no exception (the feeling of exceptionalism notwithstanding). As a rule dictatorships it takes countries more than a decade to get over a streak of authoritarianism, and rarely by organized resistance. Trump still has a 30% approval rating. That's an indicator for a good outcome mid-term.
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@randahl More or less same here in France. But I fear our own ruling class, as well as being angry at the US, is in the same time taking notes. Many many politicians here are eager to implement most of Trump's nazi politics.
> Many many politicians here are eager to implement most of Trump's nazi politics.
Yours too? Damn.
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Fox News is poison. That is the intentional content.
@yunchtime @randahl Jup... my point was that loads of Americans only watch Fox or only watch XYZ.. i.e. they have no idea about what's really going on.
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@jawarajabbi @randahl We in the #USA also not only do not resent that #Denmark stood up to our vile regime, we thank you for doing so. Your courage helps us by weakening the regime.
"Vaer stolt af Danmark!"
Very true. Many thanks to the bravery of Denmark and Canada in particular. Norway with a treasury bond dump assist. They've drawn blood this week. Trump returned from Davos a seriously weakened little tyrant.
This whole time as he pounded his chest about "buying Greenland" I was thinking "With what money, bitch? Do you think Europe is going to loan you the money to take their territory? Don't you know we're broke?"
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
@randahl Well Trump is right in one thing. For too many years Europe was happy to depend on the US for too many things.
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
@randahl This ill will is of course the real plan. NATO's death is Putin's aim.
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@ePD5qRxX @feather1952 Indeed. What is needed should have occurred during the Civil War. Rather than execute every motherfucking confederate, they stupidly allowed for their transition and education. Cancer doesn't learn. Nazism is cancer. We have the receipts from WWII. The GOP is the modern day confederacy and is worth no more than cancer is worth to any one or any thing.
@kristen_d @ePD5qRxX @feather1952 Failed to finish Civil War so we got Jim Crow. Failed to finish Nixon so we got Reagan and then Trump.
We are now failing to finish Trump. What worse fate is coming?
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
@randahl It is not only your bilateral relationship, it's that of all (former) U.S. Western allies. First, because we are not indifferent to what happens to our friends and allies and secondly because we're in that together and whatever this regime does to you it will also eventually do to us.
And that's the appalling part: not only don't they realise the damage they caused in their relationship with the Danes, but they even don't see the damage it did on their relationship with the free world.
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@kristen_d @ePD5qRxX @feather1952 Failed to finish Civil War so we got Jim Crow. Failed to finish Nixon so we got Reagan and then Trump.
We are now failing to finish Trump. What worse fate is coming?
@davidr @ePD5qRxX @feather1952 Putin. We stupidly let all your named assholes take our country into a ditch, worse each time, and the final nail will be pants-shitter pedo Trump giving it all to Putin. Putin owns the entire GOP.
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The orange one is just the puppet for the Republican Party/Project 2025.
Yes, his mental decline and overall madness adds to it, but it will only get worse when he's gone...
To get this shit-show fixed you have to get rid of the Republicans (party and those who voted for them).@ePD5qRxX @feather1952 Yes, Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The sliding towards totalitarianism was decades in the making. But fascism is a cannibalistic ideology. It often devours itself, before it can even come of age. It needs a an unscrupulous strongman holding this lump of egotistical maniacs together. And this man is Trump, whose prospect of dying soon is fortunately quite high.
The question remains: is there another strongman to take over. Couchboy probably not ...
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
@randahl I do hope in my lifetime no serious politician will ever again consider USA an "ally" or "friend". So many red lines has been crossed that this should define the relationship not for months, but decades to come.
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
@randahl I think the damage is just getting started, unfortunately.
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
@randahl somebody should check on David Heinemeier Hansson, did he denounce his Danish citizenship?
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
I don't know what the future holds (no one does, of course), but it will take a long time and a lot of hard work to repair all the damage that Trump's United States is doing to international relations. Given that it will be possible at all.
#USA #Trump #Europe #Denmark #Greenland #Canada #politics #peace #internationallaw
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@randahl the trouble is most people in America won't know or care & don't have a passport.
They are very insular in and care little for world news.
I don't know if things have changed but their news focus used to be this order;
My local big city
My State
Federal
Quirky world stories@DaRC_Fantom @randahl Yes. When I Iived in the US in the 1980s the news programmes ended with a round-up of international news called "Around the World in 80 Seconds". Very often it included some schmaltzy "human interest" story about a loyal pet.
The levels of geographic ignorance were astounding. Without immigrant brainpower the country would have been in trouble long ago. That will likely change now.
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
@randahl
The US has squandered its resources on military & financial might, while degrading its education & mental health programs. The result is enough ignorant psychopaths to hijack the cockpit & send us into a tailspin.
Teach your children well. C,S,&N -
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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
@randahl The trust won't even begin to be rebuilt until everyone in the Trump administration is rotting in jail, and laws are passed to prevent this sort of shit to ever pass again.
