Its so bad that these day such posts are flagged in HN and you cannot have any discussion about it. Feels like censorship and HN not doing anything about it to be at least transparent about providing some stats how many times something got flagged and how flagging algorithm works so we at least have some confidence that it's not abused by bots
Irrelevant?? Millions of obese Americans will disagree.
Escalate to deescalate.
Trump doesn’t understand that Greenland is a ~country~ self-gorverning territory in itself in the Kingdom of Denmark. Just like Australia is country in itself in the Commonwealth.
England would never be able to sell Australia to the US, just as we in Denmark are not able to sell Greenland.
The only way forward is trade war it seems and it would be better to escalate it quickly in order for Trump to understand the message.
I feel bad for Xi Jinping the man has been non stop drinking champagne for the last 2 years.
I'm sure that every polititian in the EU is deeply concerned, isn't it enough?
The aggressive nature of the response drops off a cliff after the second paragraph. Hard to take all this seriously.
I believe what Bessent is leaving aside, probably not out of ignorance but for rhetoric sake, is that Denmark isn't alone, alone it would be a small player (while still being disproportionately bigger for its relative size and population) but the Nordics tend to band together, the Nordic Council is one of the oldest and closest alliances in the modern age.
With the Nordic Council it becomes 22 million people with a GDP of US$ 2.2 trillion, the same GDP as Canada, close to Italy, Russia, and Brazil.
You piss off Denmark and the rest of the Nordic Council members will support it.
On top of all of that you then have the European Union, in which the majority of members will also put support behind one of its members (notwithstanding the likes of Hungary, and perhaps Slovakia with its latest government).
It's really sad to watch this rhetoric unfold from the USA, it starts with the heads but now we see it creeping into comments here on HN. It's bizarre how easily American public opinion is manipulated.