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Rugian
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Sat Jan 17 01:18:42
Trump floats slapping tariffs on countries against US acquiring Greenland

President Trump on Friday floated slapping potential tariffs on countries that oppose the U.S. acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland.

Trump made the remarks after describing threatening European allies, including France and Germany, with 25 percent tariffs if they did not pay more for prescription drugs.

“I went through country after country,” Trump said at a White House roundtable on rural health care. “I just went one after another.”

“I may do that for Greenland on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security,” he said.

http://the...p-tariffs-greenland-territory/
murder
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Sat Jan 17 01:26:09

Perfectly reasonable. Well within unitary executive powers.

Or whatever nonsense MAGA is spewing today.

We all knew US taxpayers would end up paying for Greenland one way or another.

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Sam Adams
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Sat Jan 17 01:49:59
Lol trump is almost retarded as seb
Habebe
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Sat Jan 17 02:44:37
And we have yet to see any money or benefits...
Average Ameriacn
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Sat Jan 17 11:32:50
1000% tariffs on the EU and 10000% on Denmark, then no American will ever have to pay taxes again!
Seb
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Sat Jan 17 13:40:15
Cause ^ (well, previous iterations of this bullshit)

Reaction:

http://com...64a6-4dd5-9577-446ab6219113_en

Effect:

http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/europe-digital-sovereignty/

You recall how IBMs German branch just became a company working on Germany during WW2.

That's what this is setting up: a clean cut off of US tech firms in the case of a global trade war. The EU based subsidiaries are constituted as European companies, with access to the core IP, managed by Europeans. In the event of some massive rupture, they simply get nationalised and royalty flows suspended, and service continues.


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