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    Finanzminister verteidigt grönländische Zölle: „Der nationale Notstand vermeidet den nationalen Notstand“

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/treasury-secretary-bessent-tariffs-national-emergency-greenland-eu-rcna254650

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    1. amus on

      >he is able to use the economic might of the U.S. to avoid a hot war.

      Ludicrous bullshit. Try NOT threatening your allies if you actually want to avoid a war.

    3. GraveDiggingCynic on

      As a Canadian, the terrifying part is that the Trump Administration could, and I’m reasonably inevitably will, use the same precise justification for annexing Canada. They aren’t likely to use military cohesion, but they will use economic coercion and the 51st staters, particularly in Western Canada, pumping out boat loads of propaganda to break Canadian unity.

      The United States is the enemy of world peace.

    5. DeanoPreston on

      I don’t understand Bessent. He’s no moron. He’s rich. Why is he even tangled up with Trump in the first place?

    7. knotatumah on

      lmao, doing this to avoid a war that they themselves are creating. Classic abuser tactics. *Stop making me hit you!*

    10. Huge_Excitement4465 on

      [https://www.occrp.org/en/scoop/as-trump-talked-about-seizing-greenland-former-employees-gained-a-foothold-in-the-arctic-island](https://www.occrp.org/en/scoop/as-trump-talked-about-seizing-greenland-former-employees-gained-a-foothold-in-the-arctic-island)

      Behind the scenes, a handful of Trump’s former employees and staffers have been pursuing business interests involving the Arctic territory.Former employees who sought or are seeking opportunities include George Sorial, the former executive vice president and chief compliance counsel of the Trump Organization. Also in the group is Trump Organization’s former director of security, Keith Schiller, who ran Oval Office operations in the White House during Trump’s first term. Both men have an interest in company called GreenMet.

      In April 2025, GreenMet announced it had inked a [strategic partnership](https://greenmet.com/press-release/greenmet-announces-strategic-partnership-with-tanbreez-to-secure-critical-rare-earth-supply/) with Tanbreez Mining Greenland A/S, a company holding a [license](https://govmin.gl/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Exclusive-Exploitation-Licence-Tanbreez-Mining-Greenland-2020-54.pdf) to mine rare earth minerals. GreenMet described Tanbreez as the “only shovel ready rare earth project in Greenland.” GreenMet is the trade name of Greentech Minerals Holdings Inc. Sorial and Schiller appear in Washington D.C. corporate registry documents among the beneficial owners of the company, along with Drew Horn, who is listed as the CEO. Horn was an aide to Trump’s first-term vice president, Mike Pence, and was a national security official during that administration.

    12. SingularityCentral on

      Another fascist making fascist noises from his fascist mouth hole. Pure propaganda nonsense, just like listening to the original fascists in Italy and Germany.

    13. Illustrious-Kiwi8670 on

      If we survive this, I hope there is some consequence for people like this man. He’s no idiot. He knows better and for the sake of having some power he’ll agree to anything dementia Don says.

    19. ResettiYeti on

      Christ. It’s just blatant doublethink with this administration already.

      “The national emergency is avoiding the national emergency” means literally absolutely nothing.

    22. NotMyMainLoLzy on

      >The national emergency is avoiding the national emergency

      While it’s hilariously gauche up front, we all may need a lesson in political theory for this danger to truly stick. It’s sophisticated in the way that fascism utilizes basic circular logic to justify itself. The brilliance is in its simplicity. People often underestimate and undervalue simplistic things, even if they are simplistic threats or plans. Let’s look at this seriously:

      *State of Exception*

      >A state of exception is a framework for understanding what happens when a government claims an emergency is so severe that normal legal limits can be suspended, bypassed, or reshaped, usually by concentrating discretion in the executive.

      Two classic ways it’s framed:

      1) Carl Schmitt: sovereignty shows itself most clearly in the power to decide that an exception exists i.e., the authority to say “this is an emergency” and to act outside (or above) ordinary legal constraints to preserve order. 

      Pretty clear, right? Pretty obviously dangerous, right? Let’s continue.

      2) Giorgio Agamben: the “exception” tends to stick. This heavily implies that emergency measures become normalized, and the boundary between ordinary law and extraordinary power gets dissolve…sometimes permanently

      Okay, lesson over.

      I do not need to articulate the particulars of the dangers inherent in that statement and the mindset behind it. (Insert anyone here) are not in a safe place if this mindset continues to fester within the hearts of those in power.

      Vagueness is about to become their greatest tool. Don’t underestimate simplistic wearing headed circular logic. It’s one of the greatest tools of the fashionable.

    23. UOLZEPHYR on

      We are 38 TRILLION dollars in debt.
      We are currently making enemies with the organization we created to prevent future land grabs – by trying to grab land … THAT WE SIGNED A TREATY FOR.
      We are invading foreign lands – kidnapping elected leaders over.
      Brother in Christ – this country is the national emergency.

    28. Ok_Chef_4850 on

      Trump is threatening a war and Bessent is saying “if they don’t agree to his demands, there’s gonna be another war! Cmon! Just do what he says!”

    29. Mecha-Dave on

      I have some other suggestions on how we can avoid the national emergencies….

    30. hujassman on

      The entirety of this regime belongs in a cell with no possibility of release or contact with the outside world.

    31. Beave1 on

      The feckless Supreme Court will hold their tariff ruling until the very last day they can. 

    32. TimChiesa on

      Sorry but before we switch subjects can we please get back to those Trump-Epstein files that should’ve been released by now ?

    33. Temporary_Physics_48 on

      Reminds me of that dude in Men In Black who tries to act human, he can barely make coherent sentences

    34. Jumpy_Childhood7548 on

      National emergencies, chasing national emergencies, is nut cases chasing their tails.

    35. CompetitiveFennel681 on

      Fucking doublespeak…we are creating a national emergency to avoid a national emergency. See how stupid that actually sounds?

    36. Eastern-Heart9486 on

      Bessent should have stayed in private business that way no one would know what a sycophantic idiot he is

    38. jojodonutjoanie on

      He’s another rich dude lamprey, riding the corrupt Trump train to line his own pockets.

    41. IHS1970 on

      My first thought was Lack of Critical Thinking Skills, the guy is absolutely stupid

    42. mipacu427 on

      The national emergency is avoiding a collapse of all trade with Europe and the end of NATO. So stop trying to gaslight the entire nation, you dolt.

    46. zestzebra on

      The United Staes is in a state of EMERGENCY NOW. To end this EMERGENCY, impeachment of the entire administration must happen soon, if not, mark it up as a complete nation destruction.

    47. HowMuchDidYouSay on

      Cannot believe that even the Treasurer does not know how tariffs work.

    48. UsusMeditando on

      This is like saying “I had to rape her or somebody else was going to hurt her”. This piece of shit is useless to the world.

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