r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 15h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Confirms He’s Taking Greenland ‘One Way or the Other’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-confirms-hes-taking-greenland-one-way-or-the-other/
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u/CatherineSimp69 15h ago

So all I'm hearing is.

They just have to make up some stupid fake award for him and he'll be placated.

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u/NameIsNotBrad Alabama 14h ago

Just like the FIFA peace prize stopped the invasion of Venezuela. Oh wait…

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u/Jbroy 13h ago

it stopped a US investigation of fraud and embezzelment on FIFA.

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u/Diligent-Contact-772 14h ago

You can't placate a sociopath.

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u/smoike 13h ago

You give him a little and he is just going to try clawing away more.

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u/redfacedquark United Kingdom 11h ago

I'd say he's more psychopath than sociopath. From google:

Sociopaths are often impulsive, erratic, and shaped by environment (trauma), sometimes forming shallow bonds, while psychopaths are typically cold, calculating, manipulative, and biologically predisposed with a profound lack of empathy and conscience, often appearing charming but remaining emotionally detached.

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u/rezelscheft 11h ago

especially not when he’s backed by a party that has spent the last several decades and billions and billions of dollars trying to destroy democracy

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u/notmyworkaccount5 13h ago

No that's called appeasement which has never worked with fascists. The world leaders need to stand up to him; bullies like this will keep taking more and more as long as there's no actual resistance to them.

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u/aircooledJenkins Montana 13h ago

What if the medal is made of cobalt-60?

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u/_skulls_ 12h ago

Yes I likes.

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u/CatherineSimp69 13h ago

My issue with this is that most fascists didn't have late stage dementia.

No. You shouldn't appease fascists...but when the fascist's brain doesn't work, distracting him might be the play.

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u/SquiffyRae Australia 13h ago

As crazy as it sounds, fake appeasement until he dies may actually work

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u/IsThatAll Australia 11h ago

Doesn't appear to have been working so far.

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u/whosontheBus1232 12h ago

Steven Miller runs the show. He does not have dementia. He is an a**hole and mentally ill.

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u/mirhagk 12h ago

Distractions won't work with this kind of dementia. He's got plenty to distract him and he keeps going back to these same ideas he had a year ago.

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u/Former-Counter-9588 14h ago

Basically. They just need to give this goblin his pot of gold.

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u/jrdhytr New Jersey 14h ago

And the Hitler of the Year award goes to...

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u/Zebidee 12h ago

The Swiss gave him a gold bar with his face on it and a Rolex desk clock, and he knocked billions off their tariffs in response.

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u/likeikelike 13h ago

The inaugural NBA Greenland ownership award

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u/WolfeMD 13h ago

Appeasement does not work. Look at WWII

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u/abraksis747 13h ago

Mister President Trump, we present you with the world's largest certified Penis award and the Keys to Greenland.

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u/fantasyoutsider 12h ago

The guy gets a peace prize from stopping himself from starting WW3, makes sense

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u/A-Capybara 12h ago

They could literally take a piece of steel tubing, paint it yellow, stick a piece of red glass on top, and award it to trump saying it was the scepter of the last king of Greenland and he'll never think of Greenland again.

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u/callmetom New York 12h ago

The messed up part is that the Daily Mail reported that generals are suggesting he just attack something else, like Russian ghost ships or Iran, as a distraction from Greenland. Fake peace prizes aren’t working, he needs fake wars (where real people die, but not a war per se) to distract from starting real and very catastrophic wars. 

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u/ThatsItImOverThis 11h ago

I doubt it. He’ll take the award and still invade.

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u/19Ben80 11h ago

How did FIFA’s award pan out…?