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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/about-face-monday-january-19-2026

Over the weekend, Trump unleashed more globalist fury in Europe by threatening to impose escalating tariffs on Denmark and seven obstreperous EU countries unless they make a reasonable deal on Greenland. As is their recent custom, representatives of the 27 EU members convened on Sunday for another “emergency summit” to discuss launching a trade war against the US to stop Trump. It fizzled like a wet Roman candle. They chickened out. The Times reported, “European Union Officials Lean Toward Negotiating, Not Retaliating, Over Trump Tariff Threat.”

To be fair, the muscular approach never had a chance of getting off the EU’s flabby ground. I’m not talking about the EU leaders being dainty, conflict-avoiding snakes in the grass, which they undoubtedly are. Rather, I refer to hardened realities. Europe has sent all its military equipment to Ukraine, and now must buy any new weapons from the US, a poor setup for opposing America. The continent’s economy lies in shambles. It’s fair to say the European Union is largely broke.

Perhaps most poignantly, Trump’s new tariffs cleverly targeted only eight EU countries— leaving 19 voting members who’d probably prefer to stay out of the fight, thank you.

President Trump has put a clock on them. Absent a Greenland deal, additional tariffs switch on in ten days, on February 1st. Then, if there’s still no deal by June, more tariffs pile on. I doubt the EU will let the February 1st tariffs hit. Having already watched this movie last year, when the EU threatened a trade war the first tariff time around, you can mark me down for predicting a deal happening within the next two weeks, or at least enough movement toward a deal that Trump will push their deadline a little.

Yesterday, post-summit, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on NBC’s Meet the Depressed. In his calm, intellectual way, with a mild smile, Bessent reassured NBC’s anchors that European leaders would —sooner or later— understand that American control of the island is “best for Greenland, best for Europe, and best for the United States.” Win-win-win! He added confidently, “The European leaders will come around.”

The media treats Trump’s idea of buying Greenland as some sort of drug-induced brainstorm. But it’s not new. In fact, Trump is the fourth president to try to buy the Arctic island. The first was Democrat Andrew Johnson (1865–1869), fresh off his successful purchase of Alaska from the Russians for two cents an acre. Johnson promptly sent Secretary of State William H. Seward —who’d brokered the Alaska deal— to Denmark, to try to buy Greenland. But the sale fell through.

Next up was William Howard Taft (R, 1909–1913). In 1910, Taft’s administration proposed a complicated land-exchange deal that would have transferred Greenland to the U.S. in exchange for concessions in other territories. But again, the deal went phut.

In 1946, after World War II and amid emerging Cold War tensions, Democrat President Harry S. Truman tried again, formally offering Denmark $100 million in gold (worth about $14 billion today) for Greenland, citing its military importance, but Denmark rejected the offer.

President Trump first mentioned buying Greenland during Trump 1.0, so it’s not even a new idea for him. But don’t rely on the Nation’s “paper of record” to remind you about any of this bipartisan Greenland history. Haha, that would be informative. And, well, you know: Orange man bad!

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/nato-crisis-deepens-as-trump-demands

At this point the happenings began to escalate. Eager to make an epic display of retardation demonstrate resolve and independence in the face of these sudden American ambitions on Danish territory, a variety of European countries announced they would send soldiers to Greenland in a display of “military solidarity” with Denmark. Germany sent a grand total of 13 or 15 soldiers (reports vary) to defend the icy island against the Americans. They departed on a matte grey A400M Atlas military transport with plenty of press on hand for photographs. You could almost hear Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” between the lines of the press coverage.

Alas, the Eurotards also did not want to possibly in some hypothetical world perhaps overstep by maybe potentially creating conditions for anything that might conceivably be interpreted by the Americans as a show of force on Greenland itself, so the Luftwaffe A400M landed politely in Denmark, thousands of kilometers away from the disputed territory. From there, all the soldiers boarded a completely non-threatening commercial airline to Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. ...

The next thing to happen, while our soldiers were sitting in Greenland for no reason, was that all these efforts to make a statement while not really making a statement to avoid annoying the Americans backfired, in that the Americans got annoyed anyway. U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that all participants in this publicity junket would be slapped with punitive 10% tariffs, to be increased by 1 June 2026 to 25% tariffs, “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.” ...

In his recent New York Times interview, Trump said that “it may be a choice” to obtain Greenland even at the cost of the NATO alliance, and he refused to rule out annexing the island with military force.

Trump 2017-2020: "Hey Europe, you need to increase your defense spending"

Europe: "We don't want to, but we will do a little more"

Trump 2025: "Hey Europe, I am taking Greenland cause you are weak"

Europe: "We need to spend $1 trillion to defend Greenland"

Art of the Deal.

Nobody will spend a tril to "defemd Greenland", LOL. They will talk about it until Donnie is gone.

BTW, the reason why Donnie got hot and bothered about Greenland was that Lauder cunt singing in his ear about untold mineral riches lying under that sheet of ice and how they will become viable any moment now because globull worming, LOL.

The whole missile defense angle is a ruse: we already have the right to cram Greenland full of bases with radars and interceptors, no need to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer money to buy it.

One way or another. Danish Royals will have to find their child sacrifices somewhere else.

While Trump’s been eyeing Greenland since his first term, and it fits his larger aim of removing China from the hemisphere (see: Panama Canal, Venezuela, cartels as terrorists), I wonder how much of this latest is to put European leaders in their place? Trump’s last peace agreement with Russia was stymied by Macron, Starmer and Merz , who promised nearly a trillion to continue the war. They’re clearly waiting out Trump’s term. A Democrat as president, plus Article 5, ensures we’d be part of a full-scale war.

Trump seems to be saying with the Greenland purchase, that NATO is finished. Europe can’t fight on their own absent American weaponry (having given their limited stockpiles to Ukraine). All they have left is ‘humiliating’ Trump with his private texts — which itself reads as petty and jilted.

Best to leave the NATO suicide pact with its pretentious, warmongering leadership. Globalists would like nothing more than another European brother war.

Trump was denied the Peace Prize* over ending the Gaza war.
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So, he's really going after Greenland now.

Sent a letter to the Eurotards openly stating so.

* I predicted this or trashed predictions of those who said he would "get it this time"..I just can't find my posts about it yet.

So, posting this:

MolotovCocktail says

Trump was denied the Peace Prize* over ending the Gaza war.
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He didn't end shit: all is there now is a flimsy ceasefire and even that was mostly accomplished under Bidet. The other stuff he claims to be instrumental in (like Karabakh) is even more laughable - he basically just crashed a signing ceremony for shit settled w/o US involvemrnt whatsoever (by Turks helping Azeris to fuck up Kremlin Kunt proxy - Armenia).

He'll have to put real work to be eligible. Obama got it for nothing, but this is no reason to do it again for Donnie.

How about delivering what was promised to be solved in 24hr?

RWSGFY says

He didn't end shit: all is there now is a flimsy ceasefire and even that was mostly accomplished under Bidet.

That "flimsy ceasefire" got every last living Israeli hostage out of Gaza.

And after Trump ordered the neutering of Iran's nuclear weapons program last summer (Hamas' main backer), it has been nice and quiet in the Middle East the last 6 months.

socal2 says

RWSGFY says

He didn't end shit: all is there now is a flimsy ceasefire and even that was mostly accomplished under Bidet.

That "flimsy ceasefire" got every last living Israeli hostage out of Gaza.

And after Trump ordered the neutering of Iran's nuclear weapons program last summer (Hamas' main backer), it has been nice and quiet in the Middle East the last 6 months.

Exactly.

Can't believe socal2 and I are on the same page about anything. But here we are.

MolotovCocktail says

Can't believe socal2 and I are on the same page about anything. But here we are.

I think our only disagreement is Ukraine.

I simply think Putin and Russia are two-bit losers who have failed to "win" the war or achieve their minimum objectives despite 4 years of enormous human and economic loss. I love seeing Trump strategically dismantle Russia's economic and military lifelines with Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Cuba and tariffs on India and China for buying its oil.

At this point if he TACOs Greenland, I will lose all respect for him. He better follow through with it.

Idiotic Euros after NINE YEARS haven't figured out Trump.

Trump: "We want all of Greenland."
Euros: "NO! We'll go to war."
Trump: "Ok, then just bases & territory at x, y, z in Greenland."
Euros: "Whew! OK. Here you go."
https://x.com/WallsOther/status/2014104167779017205?s=20

And now all the detractors will shout "TACO" while Trump gets what he always wanted to begin with. Esp. the message to China and Europe that the "Rules Based Order" is just US Military and Economic power, period.

Trump plays the Mockingbirds like a violin with their perpetual lying straw men MSM crap about him. He plays off the Trumpian straw men like a pro, using them to blow up their skirts.

I imagine he knows that the quick response fake news templates are AI and bot farms, and he can get the reactions rolling and out to the media before a live body even scrutinizes them in the basement of Langley.

https://x.com/i/status/2013830731760386080

As usual usual. It's about the elite drug trades. Let's see how many Congress critters instead of showing up tap dancing, wired, glittery eyed and bushy tailed start suddenly looking like they are 15 years older and can't remember their birthdays.

No more Greenland goodies.

https://timothycharlesholmseth.com/war-report-secret-nazi-submarine-line-to-the-white-house-epstein-island/

I essence, the next best thing to ownership but couched as a permanent and inviolable easement. "Greenland are BELONG TO TRUMP!"

That's not far from reality on how foreign policy works.

Patrick says

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/media-malpractice-thursday-january

It didn’t even take one day. Of all the big platforms, only the Washington Post, believe it or not, heralded the resolution of the most terrifying crisis (in the last two weeks)— what corporate media has been hysterically describing as a world conflict of apocalyptic proportions that threatened to tear NATO apart, crash the stock market, crumple the “International rules-based order” (whatever that is), and probably cause the deaths of untold numbers of cute polar bears. Yesterday’s headline: Trump hails ‘framework’ of Greenland deal, reversing tariff threats.” ...

WaPo’s head might have been spinning, but to everyone who has been paying attention for the last twelve months, it was classic Trump. The Art of the Deal. Fox commentator Byron York explained it in three sentences: “Trump wants something, then he asks for ten times that, and the other side flips out. They go back and forth, go back and forth, and it becomes a huge news story. Finally, they make and offer, he agrees to it, and it’s kind of what they could have gotten in the first place. And the other side’s happy because they think they dodged a bullet.” ...

Brett Baer agreed: “And Trump then says they are wonderful people, and happy to work with them, and suddenly it’s this dismount that we could predict by how it was set up from the beginning.”

The deal’s details remain fogged by strategic ambiguity. Here are the ‘known’ terms of the so-called framework, stitched together from Trump’s posts, leaks by US officials, and what the corporate media is reporting:

It’s bigger than Greenland; the deal includes NATO, “Golden Dome” missile shield development rights, and extends to the entire Arctic, not just the island.
The US will not “own” the island, but will get “pockets of sovereignty” to build military bases, possibly mine rare earths, and watch the ice grow.
The US will somehow participate in or control rare earth development.
China and Russia are barred from Greenland.
The US pays zero. Nothing to Denmark. Nothing to the Greenlanders. (At least, no payment terms were mentioned by anyone.)
Trump said the deal will have an “indefinite” timeframe; i.e., permanent.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/media-malpractice-thursday-january

On April 9th, 1940, the Nazis captured the entire country of Denmark after a scrappy, heroic resistance lasting a total of just under six hours. Copenhagen didn’t exactly surrender, not so to speak, but they didn’t exactly resist much either. The Nazis immediately began building bases on the Arctic island and threatening the West’s sole supply of critical aluminum ore, which came from a single Greenland mine. It was a problem.

Later, one year to the day in 1941, Danish Ambassador-in-exile Henrik Kauffmann —acting independently, against his occupied government’s instructions— signed the “Agreement Relating to the Defense of Greenland” with U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. It made Greenland a de facto U.S. protectorate for the duration of the war, allowing American forces to assume responsibility for its security.

“We were fighting to save Greenland for Denmark,” Trump reminded the WEF audience. “Big, beautiful piece of ice. It’s hard to call it land. It’s a big piece of ice.” He continued, also reminding them, “The United States was then compelled —we did it, we felt an obligation to do it— to send our own forces to hold the Greenland territory. And hold it we did, at great cost and expense.”




The implication was clear. Trump was reminding them all that, if Russia or China invaded Greenland, it would once again fall to the U.S. to fix it. They all knew he was right.

“After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark,” Trump recollected. “How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. And how ungrateful are they now?” He mused, “We want a useless piece of ice for world protection, and they won’t give it. We’ve never asked for anything else, and we could have kept that piece of land, and we didn’t.”

Then the President made dozens of headlines by saying, “I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force.” But consider how different that looks in light of the deal announcement? When he promised not to use force, President Trump already knew he had a deal. So there was no need for force. (Not that much force would be required to defeat 30 Danish troops and two dogsleds. It would be over faster than when the Nazis conquered the entire Kingdom in 1940.)

In other words, the only reason Denmark got Greenland back and has kept it for the last 80+ years is attributable solely to the Pax Americana. The Danes don’t need more than 30 troops and two dogsleds because they count on the U.S. to safeguard the island for them, just like last time. And the main reason the U.S. would protect their silly ice sheet is because it is vital to America’s national security— but not Denmark’s.

Why the President had to remind everyone about all this important historic World War II context, the reason it came as surprising news to most people, is because the blind squirrels impersonating reporters at our corporate media platforms can’t spend ten seconds on Google learning the history, in order to mention it in any of their ten thousand articles about Trump ‘bullying’ Denmark.

https://x.com/Kalshi/status/2014101416407646401

Ceffer says

No more Greenland goodies.

They can do all that shit in Dubai, or Brunei, no need to spend hundreds of millions to build a bunker in the permafrost and bribe people to shut up about it.