Watched the above earlier this morning.
US President Donald Trump has said he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace after he was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year. In a message to Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Trump blamed the country for not giving him the prize.
In his reply to Trump, Støre explained that an independent committee, not the government of Norway, awards the prize which last October went to Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado.
In the same message to Støre, Trump insisted the US needed "Complete and Total Control of Greenland" - the semi autonomous Danish territory. Asked later if he planned to use force to seize it, he replied "no comment".
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Denmark is a fellow member of Nato - a defence alliance with the US as its most influential partner. It works on the principle that members should defend each-other in case of external attacks. There has never been an attack by one member against another since the alliance was founded in 1949.
Denmark has warned that US military action in Greenland would spell the end of Nato (or at least America’s invol. It has received support from European members of the alliance - some even sent a handful of troops to Greenland last week in a move seen as symbolic.
However, Trump followed that deployment with an announcement to impose a 10% tariff on goods from eight Nato allies - including the UK - from 1 February if they opposed his proposed takeover of Greenland, and threatened to raise it to 25% by June.
Donald Trump has posted a private message from France's leader and threatened huge tariffs against French wine and champagne, taking aim at an ally who has championed a tough riposte to U.S. attempts to strongarm European policy over Greenland.
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In his reply, Trump wrote: "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper' for the US."
Trump has made no secret of his desire to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and on Monday insisted that "Norway totally controls it [the Nobel Prize] despite what they say". "They like to say they have nothing to do with it, but they have everything to do with it," he told NBC News. Trump says he deserves the award, having ended eight wars since his second term as president began last year.
The US president insists Norway controls who gets the coveted prize, while the Norwegian government says it has nothing to do with the decision.
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Donald Trump’s thuggish demands for Greenland, an island that we already have unlimited military basing rights with, are now at a fever pitch. In the wake of his big show of force in Venezuela, he cannot rest until he has added it to his trophy case: Its acquisition is “
psychologically needed for success.” So now not only will Denmark be tariffed — at an opening rate of 10 percent, escalating to 25 percent until such time as they give Trump what he demands — so too will ten other countries who have responded to Denmark’s symbolic request for NATO allies to come to Greenland.
His Greenland extortion and his Nobel pursuit are of a piece with his very nature. This won’t end well.
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…as if that hadn’t occurred or come up yet.
