President Trump said Wednesday that he was calling off tariff threats that he had issued in an effort to secure American ownership of Greenland, saying he had reached a framework agreement with Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, over the future of the icy Danish territory.
The announcement on Mr. Trump’s social media network came hours after he told European leaders in Davos, Switzerland, that he would not settle for anything less than the United States taking ownership of Greenland — while rescinding a threat to invade it. Mr. Trump had promised dire economic and security consequences for Europe if he did not get his way.
Writing on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said Wednesday evening that he and Mr. Rutte had “formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations.”
The president did not immediately give any details of that framework, and notably did not say that the United States would own Greenland, even when asked directly about ownership by a reporter in Davos soon after posting the announcement. Mr. Rutte and the leaders of Denmark did not release details either. NATO did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
You’re getting downvoted to hell but you’re not wrong. Our reliance on housing has fucked us to the point we need to change now, or we won’t make it. Canadians who have it don’t see the problem. Canadians who don’t, and can’t, see it more clearly every day. We have a NIMBY problem nationwide, and it’s no longer about backyards.
Part of why Canada is in this situation is refusal to acknowledge it and “kick the can down the road” policies. And it isn’t all on the feds, provinces and municipalities share a lot of blame as well. It certainly isn’t too late to change but we’d need to make the right choices.
Opening cities to denser development, transit, and walkability would increase housing supply, reduce transportation costs, and could improve our social spaces. This all could help reduce the rising extremist political division, the type of division where you can’t be friends with someone who votes differently and exclussively on that basis.
Agreed. Our provinces have a convenient autonomy that allows for destroying a province while blaming the Feds. Its a system that can work well with the right people, and get taken advantage of with the wrong ones. Division politics works. And its been working, but its not too late to stop.
Its the Canadian way to blame the prime Minister for things that are your premier’s responsibility/fault
Haha yep. Division politics at its finest. We have a good system, it just doesn’t account for the sociopaths who rise to the top.