European leaders have lined up to condemn Donald Trump’s “new colonialism” and warn that the continent was facing a crossroads as the US president said there was no going back on his goal of controlling Greenland.
After weeks of aggressive threats by Trump to seize the vast Arctic island, which is a largely autonomous part of Denmark, Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said on Tuesday he preferred “respect to bullies” and the “rule of law to brutality”.
Macron told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that now was “not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism”, criticising the “useless aggressivity” of Trump’s pledge to levy tariffs on countries that opposed a US takeover of Greenland.
The US was seeking to “weaken and subordinate Europe” by demanding “maximum concessions” and imposing tariffs that were “fundamentally unacceptable – even more so when they are used as leverage against territorial sovereignty”, he said, wearing sunglasses because of an eye condition.
An anti-colonial Europe. Never thought we’d see the day. Guess it’s different when it’s your soverign territory that’s the potential colony.
Anti colonialism when it’s directed towards europe 🤣
Remember the time when Europe ended colonization? It was last century, probably before you were born.
If you think the anti-colonial project is anywhere near complete, I’m dumbfounded. Are you just… not even aware of the existence of the Global South?
Your position is indistinguishable from badly-executed farce. Maybe you should study a lot more history and social science and spend a little less time being a pretend leftist on the Internet.
Oh you’re one of those. Are you talking about the same Global South of which China is a supposed part of it? Get real pal… you need more history and above all more critical thinking, and ideally up to date to the times you’re living on.
PS: but I guess asking for critical thinking to someone with “commie” on the name is asking too much…
I’m not a Marxist communist, if that’s what you mean. I think if you ask just about any actually practicing leftists of basically any stripe whether the age of Western colonialism has actually ended, you will be laughed at.
But it’s clear that you are unlikely to understand what most of these terms mean, so I’ll stop tilting at windmills and move on with my life.
An anti-colonial Europe.
I never thought the Leopard would eat my face!
who is the monarch of england in your time, traveller?
don’t worry the king of russia is trying to go back to the bad old days in these times too
fare well time traveller!
If we’re being literal, Elizabeth and then Charles haha.
Jokes aside, the impacts of European colonialism did not end with world war 2 and those injustices have intentionally been perpetuated through neocolonialism.
If you’re interested in learning more I’d recommend the works of Nobel laureate in economics Daron Acemoglu and the field of post colonial studies.
If we’re being literal, Elizabeth and then Charles haha.
Jokes aside, the impacts of European colonialism did not end with world war 2 and the resultant imbalance is intentionally perpetuated through neocolonialism.
Edmund Burke famously described societies and the institutions that sustain them as a "partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born.”
In other words, institutions link the past, the present and the future, carrying forward both progress (industrial development, individual rights for some) but also the manifestations of exclusionary frameworks (slavery, segregation and colonialism).
If you’re interested in learning more I’d recommend the works of Nobel laureate in economics Daron Acemoglu and the field of post colonial studies.
You’re 100% right, a big part of the left is stuck in 1917. They think Russia is a revolutionary force, Europe is a colonial world power, and the Jews are evil… it’s tiring as hell to be a lefty when this is the level of most online lefties.
You never thought? Europe ended colonization last century already pal, wake up.
Institutions carry the consequences of colonialism from the past into the present. It’s also important to recognize neocolonialism which acts to perpetuate the imbalances that the colonial era produced.
If you’re interested in learning more I’d recommend the works of Nobel laureate in economics Daron Acemoglu and the field of post colonial studies.
If you think colonization is a European exclusive you’re wasting your time with me. Europe is a shadow of its past. China is the new colonizing force.
I’m honestly fed up of that anti-European and simultaneously insanely eurocentric perspective. The struggle for power is nothing new nor racially exclusive. Democracy and rule of law are the relatively rare concepts, of which Europe has been among the best examples for the past decades.
This narrative of guilty peoples, special races is honestly sickening and much closer to the far right views than to the universal values we should seek.
Dead tired of that BS.
I was reading The Invisible Doctrine when Trump said he was taking over Venezuela and Greenland. It is a history of capitalism and neoliberalism that is pretty insightful. It was an OMG moment as I thought I was reading Trump’s playbook.
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-invisible-doctrine-9781802062694
Three out of every four Americans condemn it as well. What a batshit crazy time to be alive.
And the system is so broken the people can’t do anything until a desperate attempt this fall 😔
I mean, storming the capitol doesn’t seem that risky considering the precedents…
It absolutely does, because this time the enforcers wouldn’t be on the same side as the rioters
That depends on the success of the operation.
We just have to succeed before we get drone striked
The American Revolution worked because there were professional military veterans fighting in and leading it. The American Civil War was a war because the Confederacy had professional military veterans and leaders fighting for it. A second American revolution/civil war only works if a significant part of the military defects and sides with us.
True. So there’s that or submit to fascism instead.
Macron, call sign Maverick. I don’t know if not looking like you could buzz the tower at any given moment is technically a medical condition but the glasses are working.
glasses are working.
Yeah, his funny mirror glasses. Rumours say he’s had them for a few days now, because of a red eye condition.
Oh, shit he got the pink eye? Not fun.
Edit: Don’t touch your eye and then someones eye. Not good.
Popped blood vessel, he said.
Normally you have to take a trip to Amsterdam to end up with red eye condition
Not a rumour, there are pictures without his glasses. Sorry if I missed a joke
Absolutely. https://pictures.live.franceinfo.fr/a2108czLHEe4EkGTqLyuxWfZjy4/2026/1/15/000-92tp9nl-1768490167586.jpg NOT a doctored picture. Found in this french livestream : https://www.franceinfo.fr/societe/armee-securite-defense/direct-emmanuel-macron-va-donner-ses-orientations-pour-la-defense-nationale-lors-des-v-ux-aux-armees_7743061.html
DANGER ZONE!
I don’t think they’ll do anything about it. They don’t want to disrupt their economy even a little.
I hope I’m wrong, but European leaders are acting a lot like US dems and its pissing me off.
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Concern troll* about US imperialism while Trump is in office
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Macron told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that now was “not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism”,
I’d go as far as to say that ever is not a good time for new imperialism or new colonialism
Never again
Europe has been sleepwalking
