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

[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.