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Talking about Greenland, here´s a rather shrewd commentary from a Greek nationalist, pointing out the inconsistencies in the EU´s stance on Greenland, on the one hand, and Cyprus, on the other:
For decades, the capitals of Northern Europe have lived in a comfortable, self-righteous state. From the glass towers of Copenhagen to the secure ramparts of the Baltics, the mantra has been the same: Ιnternational law is the ultimate shield, and NATO is a sacred brotherhood of democracies. To the virtuous Northerners, the Greek-Turkish conflict has always been a messy, southern anachronism – a “bilateral dispute” that always called for more dialogue.https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/01/seizing-greenland-so-europe-how-does-it-feel-to-be-greece/
Well said, Roberto…
We shouldn’t have to have all this personal stuff aired on this forum. This is not the place. I don’t know what Ozymandias was hoping to achieve, but since he seems to be intent on slinging mud against the entire membership of the SPGB, I, for one, am not impressed. That’s putting it mildly.
Perhaps the Moderator ought to intervene at this point…..
Ozy
It’s not acceptable that you bring up your own personal issues here (I don’t mean just because this is a thread on Trump). Period. It’s also totally out of order that you should then turn this into a rant against the SPGB and its members in general.
Who the hell do you think you are to say such things?
This is quite an interesting commentary that I came across. Has the Trump regime reached a tipping point after the murderous antics of his ICE thugs? The popularity of the regime was already in decline but does this latest cock-up finally spell the end of the regime or any hope of re-election in the next few years?
Multiple videos of the incident were out in the public and everyone was able to see that what really had happened were crimes committed by multiple ICE agents. Every newspaper and channel which discussed the video called out the lies by the Trump administration.
The false narrative coming from the White House turned out be a huge own-goal. It has become a complete unnecessary public relation disaster for the Trump administration.
It was why I asked Why Is Trump Causing His Own Downfall?
Wouldn’t this make anyone with even the slightest shred of decency or humanity in their bones physically sick at the thought of it?:
His son-in-law Jared Kushner unveiled bizarre new pictures of a New Gaza at the opening of the board, which featured a data centre, luxury apartments and “coastal tourism”.
The presentation contained CGI-generated images of luxury apartments and data centres, as well as plans to build more than 100,000 housing units and 75 medical facilities.
Seriously? Luxury apartments constructed over the bones of thousands of people who have died and whose surviving relatives will no doubt be, at best, the cleaners and gardeners in these luxury complexes – if that.
“Disgusting” hardly covers the feelings this arouses
I read on their FB site (I think) that YP voted to allow dual membership, but that Dave Nellist of SPEW was complaining that he was blocked from standing for elections to the EC
“Scale and speed of president’s moves have stunned observers of authoritarian regimes – is the US in democratic peril?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/trump-american-democracy
So Trump has now come out and declared at the WEF forum that he won’t take Greenland by military force. That was not unexpected, even though he previously declined to rule it out. The stakes were just too high even for a crazed narcissistic nutjob like him, who mostly seems to live in some alternative universe
Trump criticized U.S. leaders at the time for relinquishing the Danish-held territory, calling his predecessors “stupid” for doing so and accusing Copenhagen of being “ungrateful” in return.
He also said the U.S. would be “unstoppable” in any attempt to seize the island but disclaimed any interest in doing so.
“I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland … It’s the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it and make it so that it’s good for Europe and safe for Europe and good for us,” Trump said.
The “markets” had earlier signalled their displeasure with Trump with a drop in the indices. Probably also the realisation that a military takeover of Greenland would, indeed, spell the end of NATO led him to make this statement.
Nevertheless, you can’t really tell with Trump. He seems no less determined to acquire Greenland on behalf of American capitalism but equally, Greenland, Denmark and Europe seem no less determined to resist this.
So we have a stalemate and the prospect of yet more uncertainty
I think the world is going bonkers. This is why I wouldnt trust what the media says further than I can spit.
In his piece for the Daily Mail, he further added: “And, in this instance, to show our intent – that means being open to the prospect of European forces fighting a ground war against the US in Greenland.”
Seriously?
FFS
Trump’s latest missive on X today, proving if nothing else, what a complete narcissist he is (“buhwwwaaa, gimme gimme gimme a nobel peace prize” LOL):
“NEW:
@potus
letter to
@jonasgahrstore
links
@NobelPrize
to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: 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, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
According to this piece, Canada is forging closer ties with China, “which threatens to upset the existing relationship with the United States”.
“President Donald Trump is preparing to counter Chinese influence in Canada as his ‘Donroe Doctrine’ for the Western Hemisphere expands beyond Latin America, his former campaign architect Steve Bannon has told the Daily Mail. ‘The next big thing is going to be Canada. Canada is the next Ukraine because they can’t defend their northern arctic border and China is going to come take a bite,’ former White House chief strategist Bannon said. ‘They can’t defend it and Trump is going to come in hard on Canada.’ During his first term, Trump formed an Arctic working group that deepened his understanding of Greenland’s geo-strategic importance—and highlighted concerns about Canada’s Arctic vulnerabilities.
Mindboggling. Looks like the Orange One is serious about Greenland
Donald Trump has announced tariffs on the UK and other European countries for their opposition to a US takeover of Greenland.
The US president posted on Truth Social on
Saturday that a 10 per cent tariff on all goods sent to the US would be imposed from Feb 1 on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, before being increased to 25 per cent on June 1.He accused the countries of creating a “very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet” after they sent a small contingent of troops to Greenland to help Denmark prepare military exercises.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/17/trump-to-impose-tariffs-on-britain-over-greenland/
The idea that capitalism could automate most production and still function smoothly is a fantasy. It would amount to a system undermining its own foundations. Capitalism cannot abolish labour without abolishing itself.
Spot on. And capitalism is not going to abolish itself. Nor are the capitalist class going to abolish themselves.
It makes me wonder what lies behind the thinking of people like Musk with his crazed talk of a jobless future. How is he and his fellow parasites going to survive without a steady stream of surplus value that only living labour can generate?
I suspect that what will happen is that, as unit costs decline, this will increase the tendency for capital to become concentrated and centralised. More and more small businesses will be squeezed out. Oligopolies or monopolies are less subject to market competition and have a freer hand when it comes to price setting.
This will have a counteracting effect on the tendency for the rate of profit to fall as a result of automation etc. But maintaining prices in the face of falling unit costs still presupposes a level of paying demand that is sufficient to buy what is being produced. In other words, mass employment
Could this lead to a slowdown in the rate of technological innovation in the future when we reach such a point? Or could it mean something else? If so, what?
Apart from that, there are several major institutions — including the World Economic Forum, the IMF, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — explicitly predict that AI will increase, not reduce, employment in many sectors, even while transforming or displacing some tasks.
