Großbritannien werde dem Druck von Trump auf Grönland nicht nachgeben, sagt Starmer

Love him or hate him he’s tackling this issue in exactly the correct way.

Boy i sure hope he sticks to this and we don’t backtrack to try and suck up after everything that’s happened.

You can’t reason with people like trump, give them an inch and they take a mile, and then another.

He already did yield, and humiliated the UK on the global stage in doing so.

The last time Trump’s US tariffed us, Starmer’s UK did not retaliate – we rewarded him. We gave him what he wanted, brown nosed him, gave him a state visit.

In doing so, we sent a clear message: The UK can be extorted. Not only will we not retaliate, we will reward any great power that extorts us.
So unsurprisingly, they’re once again back with tariffs until we bend over and take it. And once again, Starmer’s strategy is to signal weakness – to appease.

And as expected, Trumps response is to humiliate us further with his comments on the Chagis Islands deal.

It’s pathetic, honestly. We should be working with other middle powers (Canada, EU nations, etc) to stand up to the hegemon bully that’s demanding our lunch money.

Instead, like the very worst kind of suck ups in the movies, Starmer is trying to appease once again. “Please not us daddy Trump, tariff the EU instead. We’ll send soldiers to bolster Greenlands defence for you. Just please be our friend”. Pathetic.

Everyone should watch Canadian PM Mark Carneys Davos address for an idea of what real leadership looks like, and how all middle powers should be acting in the wake of Trumps US.

A quote: “When we negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what’s offered. We compete with each other [other middle powers] to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It’s the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.

In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice. Compete with each other for favor, or combine to create a third path with impact”

Starmer is a joke far too weak to do what needs to be done for the UK in this new world. He is still competing for US favor when he should be moving away from US influence with urgency. He does whatever is easiest and most politically expedient – that no longer works. All he’s doing is managing a slow decline.

We need a change in leadership urgently and get someone brave enough to stand up for the UK, not the US, in office. Otherwise we will continue to sink further and further into irrelevance and economic disparity.

If this gets us a really nice trade deal with the EU then Im all for this stance. If not then I don’t see the point. Its nice to stand on the world stage and say nice things but unless he actually commits to troops in Greenland or cuts off intelligence support to the US, these words are just words. Meaningless at best and we could end up with sanctions from the US which will hit our economy at worst.

I thought he did well against Badenoch when she went at him about Chagos.

Pathetic turncoats known as Tories and Reform are happy to start parroting Trump when he says something that they think would be politically beneficial for them. Especially when he’s openly and explicitly threatening our continent.