Sounds like the Gangster Regime is threatening to abandon Ukraine unless the US gets Greenland.

[highplainsdem]

Sounds like the Gangster Regime is threatening to abandon Ukraine unless the US gets Greenland. bsky.app/profile/atru...

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-01-18T17:22:55.710Z

[GoCubsGo]

1. Bessent is full of shit.

Ukraine won't collapse if the US "pulls out." The EU is providing more for them than we are, at this point. This is just knee-jerk extortion, and it's not going to work..

[BeyondGeography]

2. They want to have their cake and eat it too

Like Europe is supposed to leave the American military presence on their continent untouched after watching one of its own member’s sovereignty violated by the United States. In a move that would be at the top of Putin’s wishlist no less. They’re out of their fucking minds.

[Dan]

3. I really hope that some legitimate Congressional Oversite

Discovers that Trump has been acting all this time as an agent for Russia. Then he is charged with Treason - convicted - with the added benefit that all members of his Cabinet (enablers) are also defined as traitors with loss of rights as a result. Then we have the additional benefit of looking MAGA in the face as supporters of traitors and agents of Russia. Too bad there wouldn't be a way of stripping them of their privileges of U.S. citizenship.

[Hugin]

4. Seems to be a given that the list of tariffed nations is saying NATO without saying NATO...

Kind of obvious.

[EarlG]

5. Bessent and co. are smelling their own farts

They're trying to sell the message that Europe is weak and America is strong, and no doubt the rubes will buy it, because it's easy to say America = guns/Rambo/spaceships and Europe = cheese/lederhosen/ridiculous accents, but the fact is that:

The economy of the European Union ... is the second largest economy in the world in nominal terms, after the United States, and the third largest at purchasing power parity (PPP), after China and the US. The European Union's GDP is estimated to be $22.52 trillion (nominal) or $30.18 trillion (PPP) in 2026, representing around one-sixth of the global economy.

Thanks to a history of literally thousands of years of bloody warfare, modern Europe generally recognizes that peace is better than war. This makes it easy for the Trump regime to paint it as weak. But Europe has Putin on the doorstep in Ukraine, and until now they've been trying to keep the U.S. on board, because until very recently we all shared the belief that the world is a safer and more secure place when the U.S. and Europe act together in their shared interests.

Trump is working through a process which is demonstrating to Europe that in fact the U.S. does not share its interests any longer, which means that they will eventually be forced to go their own way. They should have no trouble doing so, and it will ultimately be to the U.S.'s detriment.

For someone who constantly complains about third world shithole countries, Trump sure is working his butt off to turn the U.S. into one.

[Bread and Circuses]

6. Putin is pulling the strings and he's winning

[truddy777]

7. Foreign Policy as a Hostage Deal

Framing support for Ukraine as leverage to grab Greenland sounds less like strategy and more like extortion. You turn alliances into transactions and signal to allies that commitments depend on unrelated demands. That weakens NATO credibility fast and hands leverage to adversaries who wait for cracks. If support becomes conditional theater, stability pays the price.