Ex-NATO chief: Trump may be placated with honorary Greenland title
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Via: john-russell • 10 months ago • 18 commentsBy: Elizabeth Vargas, Michael Ramsey, and Connell McShane (NewsNation)
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Ex-NATO chief: Trump may be placated with honorary Greenland title
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former commander of NATO, holds out hope that diplomacy will win the day in getting Trump to back off from his Greenland push while satisfying the U.S. that the island is secure from Russian and Chinese influence.
"There's no easy solution to this. It's going to have to be some kind of diplomatic, face-saving artifice," Clark told "NewsNation Now" on Monday. "Maybe President Trump becomes protector general of the Arctic and sets up a council. Maybe he gets acknowledged that the United States has, in writing, some special security responsibilities of the Arctic."
Observers like Clark have said the flare-up threatens U.S. involvement with NATO and relationships with allies that were solidified after World War II.
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US diplomat chides Nobel panel, European nations for Trump snub
A top U.S. diplomat disagrees President Trump exhibited a bruised ego when he complained to Norway's prime minister about not getting a Nobel Peace Prize, and she criticized the Nobel Committee and European leaders for failing to recognize Trump's achievements.
"It's certainly less about ego and a reminder where Europe drops the ball, what they're willing to recognize," Ambassador Tammy Bruce, the deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations, told "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" on Monday.
Earlier, several news agencies reported Trump sent a written message to Norway Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere as tensions escalate over the Republican president's increasingly aggressive rhetoric about the U.S. obtaining Greenland, which threatens to ignite a trade war.
"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," said Trump, even though an independent panel makes the decision.
"That committee is certainly influenced by Norway. It's influenced, perhaps, by the world," Bruce said. "It's a statement that has mattered."
She suggested the Nobel organization erred by giving President Obama the Peace Prize in 2009 when he was barely into his first term in office, compared with Trump, who Bruce said "has done more for peace around the world than anyone in recent memory."
On Trump's insistence about the U.S. acquiring Greenland, Bruce repeated the president's claims it would be in the interest of national security.
"In this case, I think it's wise to take him seriously. He feels that this is imperative," Bruce said. "We should believe him, and for every European and every other leader around the world: Do not underestimate him."
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Placate the fool !
Do it with a deal:
The US gets military control of Greenland & develops and shares in the profits of minerals with the people of Greenland. Denmark gets to fly its flag over Greenland and continue providing entitlements to the residents.
The art of the deal!
The people of Greenland would probably rather own the minerals and have the US pay for them if it wants them.
Trump is embarrassing the shit out of our country in a way that has never happened before. Now he's got our UN delegation whining on his behalf about the Nobel prize.
Trump wants to be king of the world, or at least share that rulership along with Putin , Xi, and the little rocket man. Maybe a South American right wing dictator or two would get a sliver of the pie.
They can leave them in the ground until hell freezes over as far as I'm concerned. The choice is theirs to make.
Trump is embarrassing the shit out of our country in a way that has never happened before. Now he's got our UN delegation whining on his behalf about the Nobel prize.
I doubt anything could be more embarrassing than Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal or Obama's apology tour or Carter allowing the Shah to fall, but you are entitled to your opinion.
Trump wants to be king of the world, or at least share that rulership along with Putin , Xi, and the little rocket man. Maybe a South American right wing dictator or two would get a sliver of the pie.
Dictators don't genuflect to activist district judges. Trump has followed the rules.
Trump is a madman.
Said this a week ago:
That anyone, anywhere can accept his ‘brand’ and can willfully ignore, or actively condone his actions is a truly disgusting, hateful, and frightening actor in this tragedy.
…with every weak deflection, with every failure to seek a relative comparison, and with every bleak attempt at justification, it becomes impossible for his apologists to deny culpability.
The world is learning how to treat the American president like a 5 year old.
And they shouldn't unless they're going to send him to his room without his Big Macs
Tammy Bruce is a dimwitted, no nothing that needs to be back to doing nothing.
It's all about the ego.
I think I have the perfect honorary title to be bestowed on Trump related to the artic region - The Abominable Snowman.
Trump posted this image last night
That's way too cute for him
he is off his rocker
He sees these things on far right influencers social media and doesnt have the self control to not re-post them.
You have the leader of the strongest nation in the world acting like a spoiled 5 year old. Once you learn how to wrap that little spoiled brat around your finger to do what you want, it behooves every leader of every nation to treat him like that so they can get what they want from him.
FIFA did exactly that with their FIFA Peace Prize. You'll see other countries start holding out other glittery things for the 5 year old see and want in exchange for anything they want.
His lack of self-control is why he should be removed from office
It's been a while since I dealt with a 5 year old so I will bow to your words of wisdom
If you want them to do something you hold out a toy the want and tell them they can have the toy when they do it.
How did Europe and NATO trying to appease Joseph Stalin work out? How did Europe and NATO confront Stalin's soviet expansion?
Trump is a reincarnation of Joseph Stalin's megalomania. Trump is trying to create an American soviet state using means and methods similar to those Stalin relied upon.
The dimmer wits who try to convince us that Trump is another Adolf Hitler have gotten it wrong. The NAZI Fascists were 'nice guys' compared to Stalin's soviet communists. Antifa won't cut it in the current climate; they're too wimpy to deal with a politiburo controlled by self-serving megalomania.