Understanding the US - Again

[saip]

He is SENILE. Does he not know that the nominations for Nobel for Peace have ended BEFORE he stopped zillion imaginary wars?

[drnayar]

No Peace without Prize .. who would have thought a sitting American President would go on record saying this !!

[RCase]

Here are more 'annexations/ purchases' DJT should consider for his Nobel Peace 'War' Prize:
1. Greenland
2. Iceland (why leave this speck in the Arctic? Never know, there might be tons and tons of minerals.)
3. Canada (Ellsemere surely should have tons of oil, rare earths and other minerals).
4. Denmark/ Norway/ Sweden (total lock on the Nobel prizes, forever).
5. UK (DT will definitely be a better king than their useless King Charles).

He will have the whole Arctic region for National security!

[saip]

Yea, you r right. He should take over Norway & Sweden and award himself Nobel peace prize every year till his death. There are no posthumous Nobel awards, but he can change that too. In which case Trump can be awarded the peace prize in perpetuity because he will be stopping imaginary wars from his grave too. While at it why not give himself Prices for Physics and Medicine (windmills cause cancer), Mathematics (for reducing drug prizes by 400%) and Economics too.

[drnayar]

Trump posts a picture showing Canada, Greenland & Venezuela as part of the United States

[uddu]

Mind games. That shows 2 united states. One for Trump and another for Melania.

[uddu]

Trump seems to have sensed blood. He will be going for the attack. The sooner the better for him.
Trump Crosses Denmark’s Red Line? Shows Greenland As US Territory, Leaks ‘NATO Ally’s Message’ |4K
Trump shared a post depicting Greenland as US territory as NORAD announced planned aircraft operations there amid rising tensions over US control of the autonomous Danish island.
00:00 - INTRODUCTION
03:17 - ‘DENMARK CAN’T PROTECT GREENLAND’
08:29 - "BANNED FROM USING BLUETOOTH AT WORK"

[saip]

Iwo Greenland Jima? But the VP and the POTUS should not be at the same place at the same time. But why the shorty?

[drnayar]

Trumper strikes again.. this time UK

[drnayar]

[A_Gupta]

Trumper strikes again.. this time UK

{Trump slamming the hand over of Diego Garcia to Mauritius}

From many months ago:

Donald Trump suggests he will back UK in Chagos Islands deal
This article is more than 10 months old
‘I think we’ll be inclined to go along with your country,’ president says of plan to hand sovereignty to Mauritius
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... lands-deal

Donald Trump has strongly hinted that he will back a deal in which the UK hands sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, including the Diego Garcia military base, which is jointly used by the US.

“I think we’ll be inclined to go along with your country,” the US president told reporters during an impromptu press conference in the Oval Office with Keir Starmer, who is visiting Washington. He added: “I have a feeling it’s going to work out very well.”

The apparent backing may be a surprise to British officials, who had been prepared for possible pushback against the idea.

Speaking the day before, David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, said Trump would have an effective veto over the plan, given the joint use of Diego Garcia.

[uddu]

He is hinting at Regime change of Macron. Expect Paris to burn soon.
'Got Along With France But Won't Attend G-7 Meeting In Paris,' Declares Donald Trump
'Got Along With France But Won't Attend G-7 Meeting In Paris,' Declares Donald Trump

President Donald Trump delivers a stunning snub to French President Emmanuel Macron, declaring he gets along with France but will skip the proposed emergency G7 summit in Paris right after Davos. In a White House briefing marking one year of his second term, Trump dismissed Macron's private text invite—leaked on Truth Social—citing the French leader's shaky political future: "Emmanuel won't be there very long." The move escalates transatlantic tensions over Trump's relentless Greenland acquisition push, tariff threats on French wine up to 200%, and broader "America First" clashes on NATO, Syria, and Iran.

[RCase]

^^^

Emmanuel won't be there very long.

So next project is regime change in France? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[uddu]

^^^

Emmanuel won't be there very long.

So next project is regime change in France? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sometimes, I feel Emmanuella is politically very cunning. They must have tried many regime change operations within France, but he is still the President.

[putnanja]

Trump tried to do same thing in Canada earlier. Conservatives were on their way to win power. Trump intervened and made fun of Trudeau and liberal party, and they came back to power. If he tries same in France, people might vote Macaron as a middle-finger to Trump

[uddu]

Davos 2026: S4 Capital Chairman Sir Martin Sorrell on Modi, Trump and a US-Centric World
In an exclusive conversation with Moneycontrol at Davos 2026, S4 Capital chairman Sir Martin Sorrell says Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “on fire” as India emerges as a global growth beacon in a sub-3% world. He calls Davos 2026 highly US-centric, says Donald Trump thrives on turmoil, and comments on Greenland, global uncertainty, and the shifting balance of power in world business.

[uddu]

Will They patch up or its going to be fireworks after the Summit?
Europe Snubs Trump; No Red Carpet, No Grand Welcome As He Steps Onto Swiss Soil Amid Greenland Row
Europe offered U.S. President Donald Trump a notably cool reception in Switzerland, with no red carpet, no ceremonial welcome and no official reception, underscoring deepening tensions between Washington and European capitals. Trump’s arrival in Switzerland comes amid a growing diplomatic row over Greenland, where his renewed remarks and pressure tactics have rattled European leaders. Officials kept engagements strictly formal, reflecting unease over Trump’s confrontational stance on trade, security and territorial issues, mainly Greenland. Watch.

[uddu]

Funniest speech of the century is going on.
Greenland is nonnegotiable as per Trump. He called Denmark Ungrateful. At some place, piece of ice, Iceland and Greenland are all getting mixed up. Iceland will be worried now.
Watch live: Trump speaks in Davos amid Greenland tension
President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, as he continues his push to acquire Greenland amid growing opposition.

[SRajesh]

OM is very unpredictable!!
He could really set cat amongst the pigeons If he sets up Quadrilateral Meeting before the New League of Nations is setup.
What if he calls for a summit meeting of : NaMo, Xi, Putin for a Quad Meeting to discuss the terms of reference for the new League of Nations!!
And that will really screw the Eurotrash!!
And they will serve Greenland on the platter to the 'Big Daddy'!!

[uddu]

LIVE: Trump Rules Out Using "Force" to Take Greenland but Demands Talks | Vantage With Palki Sharma
Speaking at the World Economic Forum, U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States “needs” Greenland for national and global security, reigniting an idea once dismissed as absurd and prompting Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen to warn that while military force is unlikely, it cannot be ruled out. Greenland, the world’s largest island with a population of just 58,000, says it does not want to join the U.S., a position backed by Denmark and European leaders who stress sovereignty, diplomacy and international law. Despite protests in Greenland and polls showing nine in ten Americans oppose taking the island by force, Trump and his administration continue to press the issue, raising scenarios ranging from military action to a purchase or coercive pressure. Analysts say a military move would be catastrophic for NATO, a sale would require broad international approval, and the most plausible option may be political or financial inducements — a prospect critics warn could set a dangerous global precedent.

[drnayar]

“President Macron…I watched him yesterday with those beautiful sunglasses…what the Hell happened?”

Reality TV never been better

https://x.com/liz_churchill10/status/20 ... 4676213066

tbh i feel sorry for Emmanuelle

[g.sarkar]

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/p ... 2026-01-21
PM Modi saw the Trump trap coming. Other world leaders didn't
Abhishek De, New Delhi, Jan 21, 2026
Beware, allies and wannabe allies (read Pakistan) of the US! When Donald Trump is mad at you, even close friends are not spared. On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron and Nato chief Mark Rutte learnt it the hard way after Trump, like a jilted ex-boyfriend, made their private chats public amid deepening tensions over Greenland. Even UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, hours after tom-toming his friendship with Trump, got lambasted over his "great stupidity" for the Chagos Island deal. It laid bare a harsh truth - loyalty does not guarantee respect from Trump. It is here that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strategic silence and manoeuvres, amid Trump's volatile trade diplomacy, helped India avoid the Trump trap.
Since the new year started, Trump has his heart set on Greenland, emboldened by his regime change move in Venezuela. As the world watched in shock at the capture of President Nicolas Maduro, Europe gave a meek response. However, days later, as Trump targeted one of Europe's own over Greenland and threatened to slap additional tariffs of up to 25%, Europe learnt a harsh reality. When Trump wants something, he is not a friend but a businessman.
The tariff imposition on the UK and seven other European allies has come despite Trump signing trade agreements with the European Union and Starmer last year. Thus, even trade agreements and opening up markets for US goods are not guaranteed to insulate close partners from future tariffs.
LESSON 1: NON-CONFRONTATION
Against this backdrop, India seems to have understood early what Europe is beginning to experience. Under an unpredictable Trump 2.0, tariffs are not just trade instruments, but an all-weather weapon to achieve personal and geopolitical goals.
And thus, despite being slapped with the highest tariffs of 50% and facing strong pressure to give in to US demands, India has not hurried to sign the trade deal.
India got a first taste of Trump's bluster in May 2025 after the US President made unfounded assertions that he stopped the conflict with Pakistan using tariff threats. India quickly read between the lines - that trade was being used more as a tool for geopolitical posturing and to get to do Trump's bidding.
While India, wary of the consequences, countered Trump, asserting that the ceasefire was reached through direct contact, Pakistan welcomed the "mediation" by the US President. Even in defiance, India maintained controlled restraint and never directly attacked Trump.
But, Trump's patience was wearing thin. A zesty phone call on June 17 between the President and PM Modi further ratcheted up tensions. PM Modi bluntly told Trump that the US had nothing to do with the ceasefire. He also refused to engage Trump on the Nobel Peace Prize, unlike Pakistan, which resorted to over-the-top flattery.
The consequences were immediate. Weeks later, Trump slapped 50% tariffs, including 25% over India's purchase of Russian oil. Pakistan got away with just 19%. Ties with New Delhi, carefully nurtured by previous US presidents as a counterbalance to China, began to unravel.
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Gautam

[uddu]

Pakistan & 7 other Islamic nations join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’, will the board replace UN?
Pakistan and seven other Islamic nations have joined Donald Trump’s proposed ‘Board of Peace’, triggering global debate. Is this a symbolic diplomatic grouping or a potential alternative to the United Nations? In this video, we break down the facts, geopolitical implications, and global reactions.

[uddu]

Donald Trump would like to accept all the awards! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

[A_Gupta]

JVL writes in The Bulwark:

Many Americans want to believe that Trump’s sudden climbdown yesterday in Davos has resolved the Greenland crisis.

It has not.

The foundation of the crisis is the decadence and degradation of American society. For a decade, Americans have looked at the fantastic prosperity they enjoy and assumed that it was their natural right. That they did not have to take civics, or governance, or the rule of law, or international obligations seriously. That they could elect an aspiring authoritarian, tolerate an attempted coup, endorse the embrace of America’s enemies and betrayal of its allies—and there would be no consequences.

In other words: The Greenland crisis is rooted in our self-delusion.

[A_Gupta]

Another pleasant fiction people tell themselves is:

Things may be bad in America right now, but it’s not actual fascism. Not yet, at least.

Well that depends on who you are and where you live, doesn’t it?

For me, a middle-aged white guy in New York City, my day-to-day life is pretty normal. No actual fascism detected.

But for Renee Good, there was quite a lot of actual fascism. She was killed by a masked agent of the state. The federal government then labeled her a “domestic terrorist” and lauded her killer. This same government is now attempting to prevent any investigation of, or legal accountability for, the killer’s actions.

[A_Gupta]

Andrew Egger writes in The Bulwark:

As long as I live, I don’t think I’ll get over this pure, dumb fact: Trump told his fans he had to blow up the liberal order because it was the only way to secure the very benefits the liberal order was already bringing us.

Trump insists America needs Greenland as a strategic positioning ground from which to restrain Russia and China in the Arctic. But thanks to the liberal order, this was something we already enjoyed. Through the magic of multilateral cooperation, we were able to treat someone else’s territory as though it were our own for the purposes of military positioning—not by bribing or intimidating them, but because they agreed their interests and our interests aligned.

Trump insists America needs to blow up America’s preexisting economic relationships to ensure America gets an advantageous position in international trade. But America already had such an advantageous position: an orderly world economic system that had lavished previously unimaginable prosperity on America and to the entire globe, with us at the proverbial (and very profitable) head of the table.

[A_Gupta]

Andrew Egger continues:

It’s not just that Trump had the hubris to think he could hero-ball the country to a better deal by canceling a century of history and starting over. It’s that his own broken personality—his miserable meanness, his dispositional inability to cooperate with and trust others—has always prevented him from understanding what was good about the deal we had to begin with. The idea that multipolar agreements could be better for America, in some cases, than outright ownership—that, say, we already have everything we need from Greenland—he rejects as ridiculous. Ownership, he told the New York Times, is “what I feel is psychologically needed for success. . . . I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty.”

[A_Gupta]

AI: The U.S. military presence in Greenland during the Cold War was enabled by the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement, a bilateral pact between the United States and Denmark that granted the U.S. sweeping rights to build, operate, and control military installations across Greenland.

While the status of Greenland within Denmark has changed, making the 1951 deal essentially trilateral instead of bilateral, it continues to be in force.

The 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement - text:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/den001.asp

Article XIV(2) of the Agreement:

(2) This Agreement, being in implementation of the North Atlantic Treaty, shall remain in effect for the duration of the North Atlantic Treaty.

Article VIII of the Agreement:

Article VIII.

The Government of the United States of America shall have the right to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over those defense areas in Greenland for which it is responsible under Article II (3), and over any offenses which may be committed in Greenland by the aforesaid military or civilian personnel or by members of their families, as well as over other persons within such defense areas except Danish nationals, it being understood, however, that the Government of the United States of America may turn over to the Danish authorities in Greenland for trial any person committing an offense within such defense areas.

Article II(3) of the Agreement:

(3) In cases where it is agreed that responsibility for the operation and maintenance of any defense area shall fall to the Government of the United States of America, the following provisions shall apply:

(a) The Danish Commander-in-Chief of Greenland may attach Danish military personnel to the staff of the commanding officer of such defense area, under the command of an officer with whom the United States commanding officer shall consult on all important local matters affecting Danish interests.

(b) Without prejudice to the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark over such defense area and the natural right of the competent Danish authorities to free movement everywhere in Greenland, the Government of the United States of America, without compensation to the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark, shall be entitled within such defense area and the air spaces and waters adjacent thereto:

(i) to improve and generally to fit the area for military use;

(ii) to construct, install, maintain, and operate facilities and equipment, including meteorological and communications facilities and equipment, and to store supplies;

(iii) to station and house personnel and to provide for their health, recreation and welfare;

(iv) to provide for the protection and internal security of the area;

(v) to establish and maintain postal facilities and commissary stores;

(vi) to control landings, takeoffs, anchorages, moorings, movements, and operation of ships, aircraft, and water-borne craft and vehicles, with due respect for the responsibilities of the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark in regard to shipping and aviation;

(vii) to improve and deepen harbors, channels, entrances, and anchorages.

[Jay]

Like I said a long time ago, trump is bhasmasura and he will burn up everything he touches. There is no redemption for him or his believers. They are just zombies who's singular existence is to cast misery all around, hosts of the original TDS virus...

[Amber G.]

Reporter: President Putin has said that he may use frozen Russian assets to pay for his entry to the board of peace. Were you inclined to let him do that?

Trump: I don't know about that. I've heard that. Who said that?

Reporter: President Putin

Trump: He said he was going to use his money.

Reporter: Frozen assets

Trump: Yeah, it’s fine. He’s using his money.

Video

[A_Gupta]

ETTD - Everything Trump Touches, Dies.

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Bessent made the comment during a discussion about housing policy with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo in Davos, Switzerland, when talking about the administration protecting "mom and pop" homebuyers from big investor groups, saying, "Someone, maybe your parents, for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."

As the Daily Beast points out, according to the US Census Bureau, only 65% of Americans own a home, and only 4% own a second home. So yeah, the idea that retirees typically own five or more homes isn't based in reality.

[Amber G.]

Pesh hai!- you can’t break up with someone who already blocked your number

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2014482819557294112
@grok
Recent photos from Davos show bruising on President Trump's left hand. Trump stated it resulted from bumping into furniture. Other reports suggest it could be a side effect of daily aspirin for his heart condition. No official medical confirmation is available. Sources: CNN, The Hill, Fox News.