”It takes some patience to unwind all of the nonsense… When Vance says that Denmark is not protecting Greenland…, he is wishing away generations of cooperation, as well as the NATO alliance itself. … The threat in the Arctic…is Russia… But right now the United States is supporting Russia… No one is doing more to contain the Russian threat than Ukraine.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
#vance #usa #denmark #greenland #nato #russia #ukraine

”…Vance opposes helping Ukraine, spreads Russian propaganda…, and is best known for yelling at Ukraine’s president in the Oval Office. …the response of Musk-Trump has been to ignore this larger reality completely while allowing Biden-era aid to Ukraine to come to an end. Denmark meanwhile has given more than four times as much aid to Ukraine, per capita, as does the United States.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #vance #usa #russia #ukraine

“Greenland, Denmark, and the United States have been enmeshed in complex and effective security arrangements…for the better part of a century. Arctic security, an issue discovered by Trump and Vance very recently, was a preoccuption for decades during and after the cold war.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #nato

“There are only a couple hundred Americans at Pituffik where once there were ten thousand; there is only that one US base on the island [Greenland] where once there were a dozen; but that is American policy, not Denmark’s fault.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #nato

“We really do have a problem taking responsibility. The United States has fallen well behind its allies and its rivals in the Arctic, in part because members of Vance’s political party denied for decades the reality of global warming…”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #arctic #climatechange

“As with everything Musk-Trump does, however, the cui bono question about imperialism in Greenland is easy to answer: Russia benefits. Putin cannot contain his delight with American imperialism over Greenland. In generating artificial crises in relations with both Denmark and Canada, …the Trump people cut America loose from security gains and create a chaos in which Russia benefits.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa #denmark #greenland #canada #russia

“The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous. The United States has nothing to gain from it, and much to lose.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa #denmark #canada

“Musk-Trump are creating the bloodily moronic situation in which the United States will have to fight wars to get the things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking. And of course wars rarely turn out the way one expects.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #usa

“Hans Christian Andersen told the unforgettable tale of the naked emperor. In Greenland what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #greenland

“The comparison between life in the United States and life in Denmark is not just polemical. Musk-Trump treat Europe as though it were some decadent abyss… But Europe is not only home to our traditional allies; it is an enviable zone of democracy, wealth and prosperity with which it benefits us to have good relations, and from which we can sometimes learn.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#vance #trump #usa #denmark #europe

“The US is is 24th in the world in the happiness rankings. Not bad. But Denmark is number two (after Finland). On a scale of 1 to 100, Freedom House ranks Denmark 97 and the US 84 on freedom — and the US will drop a great deal this year.”
—Timothy Snyder
#usa vs #denmark & #finland

“An American is about ten times more likely to be incarcerated than a Dane. Danes have access to universal and essentially free health care… Danes on average live four years longer than Americans. In Denmark university education is free… Danish parents share a year of paid parental leave. In the US, one parent might get twelve weeks of unpaid leave. … American children are about twice as likely as Danish children to die before the age of five..”
—Timothy Snyder
#usa vs #denmark