cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/56379266

The European Commission has stopped short of condemning Donald Trump’s renewed claim to take over Greenland, even as international outrage mounts after the dramatic abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arbf240533


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  • CompactFlax
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    14 days ago

    This cowardice isn’t going to improve the situation.

    • unexposedhazard
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      14 days ago

      This is the point in science fiction stories where the US turns into the world police that has full control over 90% of the globe.

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    14 days ago

    This behavior is to be expected since the EU is heavily vulnerable to blackmail due to its many hard dependencies on US-based software and services. I suspect that many EU leaders can easily be bullied into submission by the current kleptocracy in the US.

  • vodka@feddit.org
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    I’m just waiting for Denmark so send an angry order of a couple more F-35s to the US over this. That’ll show them!

    That’s for sure what we would’ve done here in Norway in the same sirusrion.