Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Let’s Make A Deal 🌮

 Earlier that same day:

In his speech, the president called for "immediate negotiations" on the acquisition of the Arctic territory.

Trump ruled out the use of military force in his speech, a commitment Lange described as a "small positive element."

However, Lange said the proposed 10% to 25% tariffs remain on the table, adding that, until the threat of them is over, "there will be no possibility of compromise."

"We will hold on the procedure ... until there is clarity regarding Greenland and the threats," he said.

"There was a breaking of the Scotland deal by President Trump," Lange said, referring to the trade pact agreed by the EU and the U.S. at Trump's Turnberry golf resort last year.

Lange said Trump is "using tariffs as an instrument of political pressure" as a way to buy Greenland, and described the move as "an attack against the economic and territorial sovereignty of the European Union."

He added that the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, or INTA, would on Monday discuss the use of the EU's Anti-Coercion Instrument, or ACI — a far-reaching measure variously described as a "trade bazooka" — which would allow the EU to substantially restrict U.S. companies' access to its single market, block them from tenders, reduce the flow of goods and capital, and curb foreign direct investment in the bloc.

"This was created exactly for such a case when a foreign country [uses] tariffs and investment for political and coercive pressure," Lange said of the ACI.
Later that same day: And later than that: Is it just a deal on paper? Or is it not even that? (There is a U.S. treaty with Denmark where we recognized their claim to Greenland in exchange for what are now the U.S. Virgin Islands. But it’s just a piece of paper, right?) Because of course it isn’t. And, of course he did.
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  1. Craig4:31 PM

    Assign ICE to Greenland instead of Minnesota with orders to win friends and influence people. Authorize them to promulgate the teachings of Andrew Carnegie. Keep them busy building libraries devoted to the royal families of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the British Isles. Require them to memorize and recite Hamlet's soliloquy to obtain R&R in Iceland.

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