U.S. President Donald Trump appears to have set his eyes on Greenland again while venting frustration at NATO, as the diplomatic fallout from Iran war exposes rifts in Washington’s ties with the security alliance.

In a Truth Social post Wednesday evening stateside, Trump said that “NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!”

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Trump has taken aim at NATO and Greenland in recent days. “It all began with, if you want to know the truth, Greenland,” Trump told reporters at a White House press conference Monday. “We want Greenland. They don’t want to give it to us. And I said, ‘bye, bye.’”

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[–] 36 points 7 months ago

NATO is a defensive force.

It's like being mad at the police when they don't back you up when you go and kill some people.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    One war at a time please Donald. Perhaps finish with Iran first.

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  • [–] 50 points 7 months ago

    Translation: "Goddamn it, my ties to Epstein keeps showing up in the news no matter what I do!"

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago

    Donvict Trumpepstein again demonstrating how he doesn't understand how NATO works and then passing along that misinformed view as propaganda to his ignorant MAGA base. He lost to Iran and now he wants to lose to NATO too. Not America First. This is Russia First. Agent Krasnov makes Putin smile. Worst prez ever!

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  • [–] 33 points 7 months ago

    Oh, for fucks sake...

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Make him go away.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Demented Donny is still loosing it because his name keeps showing up in the Epstein Files.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Orangeman didn’t learn. NATO now knows the effectiveness of low cost strategic actions to bring a superpower to its knees. This is the rantings of a nihilist lunatic. I mourn for our country. We didn’t even make it to our 250 birthday.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I hope the world knows he's insane and the Republican party is going to try and stop the midterm elections so they don't face repercussions for letting him run wild.

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    [–] 51 points 7 months ago

    So Greenland just has to threaten to bomb the Panama canal with drones and Trump will chicken out.

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  • [–] 62 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    It's Greenland this week, is it? What I don't understand is how normal Americans aren't actually dying of embarrassment.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Most Americans still don't pay attention.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Most Americans are too stupid to understand anyway.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I find it spooky how most American television continues to pretend everything is normal. Two shows that I know of have acknowledged the atrocities ICE is committing. Abbott Elementary has made some indirect references to Trump. But mostly in tv land, Trump doesn't exist and all the crap he's doing isn't happening. Sometimes I'm amused by the idea that maybe the characters in my shows are just that oblivious.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago

    Last week, Trump called NATO a “paper tiger”and said he was “absolutely” considering to withdraw from the 32-member alliance, arguing that European members have relied on U.S. security guarantees while offering inadequate support when Washington needed them most. 

    “Defensive alliance refuses to join ridiculous war of aggression, news at 11.”

    “Trump can’t attack the alliance forever without making it hollow,” said Michael Feller, chief strategist at Geopolitical Strategy, as Iran was “testing unity” by offering Spain and Turkey waivers to get their oil via the Strait of Hormuz.

    Russia is widely believed to have interfered in both elections that got the guy into office. The fracturing of NATO sure is great for them. Incredible ROI. China is a pretty good friend of theirs too. Where will Europe be if China reaches for Taiwan and Donny has pissed in everyone’s beer? Even if it’s always TACO time and he never grabs Greenland, he’s an unreliable partner in anything.

    He’s not necessarily directed by anyone to cause all the havoc, such as pawing at Greenland again now. He’s enough of a loose cannon to cause trouble by himself, especially as Iran threatens to embarrass him as weak in front of his most ardent supporters and he needs a new distraction from both that and the Epstein files.

    Where can I find some biased “fake news media” where they actually talk about realistic interpretations of the facts on the ground?

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM

    Did the United States, the actual country, get attacked? Someone drop bombs on NY or something?

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    And if Poland would've unilaterally attacked Russia somewhere last year, Trump would've immediately sent out the fleet and start the bombing on Moscow because that's what NATO does? Yeah, didn't think so.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    NATO is a specifically a defensive alliance, unless Trump says otherwise. Or at least, that's what I've read on Facebook and Twitter.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Wanna place a bet on polymarket that he tries to overtake Greenland in the next days to try and distract from the embarrassment of Iran?

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The embarrassment of Iran, which was to distract from the embarrassment of the Epstein Files?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    He might invade Greenland, he might invade Cuba, he might invade Canada, he might invade Mexico. At this point, we may as well adopt the mindset of the Yemenis:

    "We don't care, we don't care. Make it a major world war! My heart longs for Mausers and assault rifles.

    They're going to do what they're going to do. Will they open up more fronts? Well that went great for Germany, so I'm sure it'll go great for them.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    All of ICE is poorly run, not just a piece of it.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    If it's so worthless, why does he want to kill people to seize it?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Nobody had a picture book that was simple enough?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    gee. I wonder why the article about being more worried about the us than china came up.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Literally anything to distract from his pedophelia and avoid doing something to benefit Americans.

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