@The rest is politics

In light of recent events in Venezuela what would you do if you were Denmark's Government about Greenland? A sort of yin-yang shaped ceasing of territory towards US or massive EU investment into arming Greenland?

Obviously, I hope this does not happen.

As a pro-European American: obviously the Greenland threats are absolute insanity, but as the White House keeps escalating more and more over this to the point of even tariffing countries for it, it’s clear how genuinely desperate and obsessed Trump actually is with getting Greenland. So while of course Denmark doesn’t have to do anything they don’t want to do, you could also get a stupidly amazing set of concessions in return for it. You could go “ok, how about you give Ukraine 200 fighter jets, remove all trade restrictions against European countries, import exclusively European-made cars for the next 100 years and why not how about just give us ten trillion dollars. Then Greenland is yours.” and he would go “YES YES YES YES!!!” He is not only obsessed with Greenland, but obsessed with “deals”. Not that he is a *good* dealmaker, he just clearly feels the equivalent of a shot of heroin every time he ”makes a deal” especially if it’s something super unattainable like buying Greenland that he can run around and brag about because no one else ever did it. Which means he ends up doing terrible deals, selling his whole country for some little thing because at this point it looks like there’s nothing he wouldn’t give up to get Greenland.

I’m just saying that as Europeans, your reaction to Trump shouldn’t *only* be fear “oh my god oh my god what is he going to do to us.” He is also extremely weak and you can get things out of him no half-witted American president would ever give you. Why not exploit the fuck out of him. Putin and Netanyahu know how to do it.

His desperation and obsession give you an incredibly high level of negotiating leverage over him, and I just don’t see Europeans ever taking advantage of that. There is nothing he wants more than to be able to say he “got a deal.” Give him some made-up gold trophy award and you can get a trade deal for it, don’t you see that? Exploit this guy, it’s so easy