Greenland Insanity

There is a great deal of face drooling going on right now.

The insanity surrounding the USA’s designs on Greenland is not the American ambition, but rather the reactions to it. The commander of Danish forces is ready to deploy to Greenland against the USA. Good luck with that, it’s not the time of King Canute anymore.

There are numerous other examples, but the craziest I have seen is that of the chap who writes at Moon of Alabama. He’s a good example of someone who gets a few things correct, (Ukraine), but then leaves his brain out to dry on a lot of other subjects. As an example …

Europe has a trade surplus from selling goods to the United States. But Europe has a deficit from buying services from the U.S. Such services are software, internet applications, TV shows and movies, consulting and some fields of banking businesses.

Europe should immediately introduce tariffs on all services the U.S. provides to Europe. These should be double the tariffs Trump has put on European goods. If Trump responds with higher tariffs on goods, respond with increasing that rate fro (sic) services. Let Microsoft, Google and Hollywood scream about it. All their products can be replaced with European ones without too much hassle.

I love how people think that software services like those of Microsoft can just be replicated. I remind people of this on occasion when the subject of Indian IT engineers comes up. Exactly how many Indian tech companies are there? The same goes for the Europeans. Sure they have Telegram, and a few other spotted examples. But go on, recreate Microsoft overnight, that’s a good one.

But the best is yet to come.

There are other measures European countries could take. There are several ten-thousands U.S. soldiers and associated civilians in Europe. As the U.S. is threatening Greenland it is justified to limit their current free movement. Just to make sure that they, under Trump’s command, don’t start to do something equally stupid. In the end these people are hostages. Use them as such.

If you think that US armed forces in the middle of Europe will allow themselves to become hostages, I really would like to know which brand of Nepalese Gold you’re smoking. It should be obvious by now to anyone with a resting IQ higher than a par score at a round of golf that US troops are not stationed in Europe to protect Europe. Just putting that out there. I mean, really people. This is just embarrassing.

But our penis piano playing politician buddy Zelensky must be going up the wall right about now, because nobody is talking about the Ukraine. Or Iran or Israel for that matter. Funny how that works.