At 12:45 p.m. ET, Niall Ferguson joins Rafaela Siewert live to discuss whether America still leads the free world as the U.S. and its NATO allies trade blows at Davos over Greenland.
I'm guessing this interview - and a LOT of world reaction - is going to be outdated extremely quickly as Trump has run circles around this whole Greenland issue. Now I would not handle world relations like this, but I am so FAR from world leadership and as I have said many times, I am not in his shoes. It is astounding how he thinks MULTIPLE steps ahead of everybody else. You can't even keep up. He intends to keep America strong, capable, FREE, and way ahead of the rest.
Our Great President Donald J Trump has already solved this problem. He did this while the Leftists in the media were insulting him over his cordial 2 hour press conference yesterday prior to his flight to Switzerland. All he did today was give a sensational speech solidifying his role as the leader of the Free World and solve the Greenland problem. All in a days work for our great President. The man has more energy than most twenty year olds! God bless our great President. Compare and contrast with Joe Biden wandering off into the woods and getting directions from the Easter Bunny!
The speech by Carney - obviously it hinged upon "the rules based world order" and how we miss it and and it's gone and Orange Man Bad destroyed it, boohoo. Except...it never existed.
From 1945-1990 the world was bilateral with two superpowers. The UN action in Korea was the only time the UN acted decisively and that was only because the USSR abstained from the Security Council vote and China's seat at that time was Taiwan. It sort of worked in 1990 when the UN agreed to liberate Kuwait (only). Other than that, the US intervened in South Vietnam and invaded Iraq and the USSR invaded Afghanistan and a hundred other wars.
Now the variable is China. A third major power, "new" to the scene (as of the past couple centuries, they were obviously a major power in past eras). Adjustments are needed. The old system isn't feasible. Trump is aware and shaking things up. Action is better than non-action.
What does "Leader of the Free World" mean? NATO countries have called American Presidents the "Leader of the Free World" for one reason - to get America to protect them so that they do not have to pay for their own defense. Trump does not want to be the "Leader of the Free World." Trump is content to be America's President. That is what America First means.
@freepress. What happened to the live stream convo? I was there and it wasn't and isn't showing in the previous or upcoming LIVES. Can you help with that? I'd love to listen to this conversation.
I find it hilarious, that the “No Kings” crowd and the “Stolen Land” crowd are firmly in favor of maintaining the rule, by an actual king, of land colonized by white people from Europe, who abused the indigenous people of color, because of their raging TDS!
Once again the press in general, and now even some of the more reliable and prestigious voices among journalists, may find themselves again eating crow in their rush to judgment hand-in-hand with a serial failure to grasp President Trump's political modus operandi.
While we await the full and final details from the negotiations over Greenland's expanded future role in NATO's defense, Trump is already issuing sound bytes to the effect that he got everything he wanted in that pursuit.
That very likely could mean that with his customary bluster and overstatement, Trump will fall short in his demand for U.S. ownership of Greenland but will play a central role in Its defense and overseeing and operating an Iron Shield defense that assures U.S. and NATO allies security against an increasingly hostile and dangerous world.
And that spells victory; and, yes, Trumpian style.
What??? By the time I read the panic, clickbait headline from The Free Press about Trump, he'd already gotten what he wanted and stopped "trading blows" over Greenland.
Shocking that The Free Press editors and contributors would over-react and get knickers in a ruffle over Trump doing the same thing he always does.
How is it remotely possible that you guys haven't figured out how this works?
Trump makes a ridiculous demand (in poker I'd say he's going 'all in'). The rest of the world folds, as he knows they will. They have to. He's always got the best hand. It's called America.
As a Danish-American who speaks Danish, has spent a lot of time in Denmark and still has close family there, I can assure you Denmark has never intended to protect or defend Greenland, which they have mostly viewed as a costly appendage that they cannot figure out what to do with. Danes are generally supportive of the US and have been decent allies, but they are a tiny country with a small population and gnat-sized military that is more for show than any functional use.
Twenty years ago I told my Danish cousin I would like my son (then age 7) to serve in the US military before committing to college. My cousin, who also had a 7-year old son, responded that she would never let her son or any child of hers serve in the military, because "Denmark is not worth dying for." Danes assume and expect that Americans WILL die for Denmark, because we're useful idiots and they are our intellectual superiors. Danes have an excellent opinion of themselves. No Dane will EVER die defending Greenland.
An option is that we just come to an agreement with Denmark that the US will do all the defense of Greenland, including with American lives, and send Denmark an annual bill for the cost. About $100+ billion per year. It's a fair trade for no Dane dying to defend a block of ice they haven't really wanted in at least 50 years. Danes have minimal investment in Greenland, their national identity is not tied to Greenland, and they've made Native "Greenlanders" welfare vassals who hate Danes & Denmark. Danes can't get rid of Greenland because the island's inhabitants are incapable of being a functional independent country. It would be like sending children to play in traffic.
Insert Trump into that dysfunctional relationship, and I expect a deal will be made. Denmark's ego has been bruised, but there is room for a mutually satisfactory deal.
The Status Quo of Davros,ECB, WTO have done a great job for themselves. The rise of the right worldwide is a result of an unelected elite who have done a bad job. I am not a Trump supporter,I forget who said this "sometimes the wrong person does the right things for wrong reason "
They keep saying that the Greenlanders don’t want it. How do they know? The pollsters probably asked, “Do you want Trump’s boot on your neck?” What if they asked, “How do you feel about being better off, and protected from the Russians and Chinese?”
For your first question. It wasn't asked in such a way, that's for sure. And even if it were, they know they wouldn't be losing basic freedoms if the US took over (yes, even Trump's USA) but the freedoms they have today are definitely the same if not better.
They know they're protected from the Russians and Chinese by the simple fact that the USA, owning Greenland or not, would never let it fall into their hands. Also, would they be better off ? I sincerely doubt it, at least for most of them. The absence in the USA of universal healthcare is a glaring example of that, just for one example.
Love the people of Canada......loath their woke, progressive political leaders. They criticize President Trump as a bully and an authoritarian. Yet, I'll never forget during the Covid pandemic, how Prime Minister Trudeau crushed the truckers' protest and froze their personal bank accounts. European leaders (especially the Brussels crowd) are also a bunch of smug, arrogant, bureaucrat elitists many of whom take their marching orders from Greta Thunberg and her ilk.
I'm guessing this interview - and a LOT of world reaction - is going to be outdated extremely quickly as Trump has run circles around this whole Greenland issue. Now I would not handle world relations like this, but I am so FAR from world leadership and as I have said many times, I am not in his shoes. It is astounding how he thinks MULTIPLE steps ahead of everybody else. You can't even keep up. He intends to keep America strong, capable, FREE, and way ahead of the rest.
Our Great President Donald J Trump has already solved this problem. He did this while the Leftists in the media were insulting him over his cordial 2 hour press conference yesterday prior to his flight to Switzerland. All he did today was give a sensational speech solidifying his role as the leader of the Free World and solve the Greenland problem. All in a days work for our great President. The man has more energy than most twenty year olds! God bless our great President. Compare and contrast with Joe Biden wandering off into the woods and getting directions from the Easter Bunny!
The speech by Carney - obviously it hinged upon "the rules based world order" and how we miss it and and it's gone and Orange Man Bad destroyed it, boohoo. Except...it never existed.
From 1945-1990 the world was bilateral with two superpowers. The UN action in Korea was the only time the UN acted decisively and that was only because the USSR abstained from the Security Council vote and China's seat at that time was Taiwan. It sort of worked in 1990 when the UN agreed to liberate Kuwait (only). Other than that, the US intervened in South Vietnam and invaded Iraq and the USSR invaded Afghanistan and a hundred other wars.
Now the variable is China. A third major power, "new" to the scene (as of the past couple centuries, they were obviously a major power in past eras). Adjustments are needed. The old system isn't feasible. Trump is aware and shaking things up. Action is better than non-action.
What does "Leader of the Free World" mean? NATO countries have called American Presidents the "Leader of the Free World" for one reason - to get America to protect them so that they do not have to pay for their own defense. Trump does not want to be the "Leader of the Free World." Trump is content to be America's President. That is what America First means.
Tell us again what Democrats have to offer?
All Democrats can offer is the last two years of Trump’s term will be dedicated to his Impeachment.
@freepress. What happened to the live stream convo? I was there and it wasn't and isn't showing in the previous or upcoming LIVES. Can you help with that? I'd love to listen to this conversation.
Trump's style is chaotic and impulsive to the untrained eye, to the naive eye, to the underestimating eye.
I find it hilarious, that the “No Kings” crowd and the “Stolen Land” crowd are firmly in favor of maintaining the rule, by an actual king, of land colonized by white people from Europe, who abused the indigenous people of color, because of their raging TDS!
Once again the press in general, and now even some of the more reliable and prestigious voices among journalists, may find themselves again eating crow in their rush to judgment hand-in-hand with a serial failure to grasp President Trump's political modus operandi.
While we await the full and final details from the negotiations over Greenland's expanded future role in NATO's defense, Trump is already issuing sound bytes to the effect that he got everything he wanted in that pursuit.
That very likely could mean that with his customary bluster and overstatement, Trump will fall short in his demand for U.S. ownership of Greenland but will play a central role in Its defense and overseeing and operating an Iron Shield defense that assures U.S. and NATO allies security against an increasingly hostile and dangerous world.
And that spells victory; and, yes, Trumpian style.
What??? By the time I read the panic, clickbait headline from The Free Press about Trump, he'd already gotten what he wanted and stopped "trading blows" over Greenland.
Shocking that The Free Press editors and contributors would over-react and get knickers in a ruffle over Trump doing the same thing he always does.
How is it remotely possible that you guys haven't figured out how this works?
Trump makes a ridiculous demand (in poker I'd say he's going 'all in'). The rest of the world folds, as he knows they will. They have to. He's always got the best hand. It's called America.
;)
Trump should require Europe to help protect our southern border.
Perhaps the northern border instead
As a Danish-American who speaks Danish, has spent a lot of time in Denmark and still has close family there, I can assure you Denmark has never intended to protect or defend Greenland, which they have mostly viewed as a costly appendage that they cannot figure out what to do with. Danes are generally supportive of the US and have been decent allies, but they are a tiny country with a small population and gnat-sized military that is more for show than any functional use.
Twenty years ago I told my Danish cousin I would like my son (then age 7) to serve in the US military before committing to college. My cousin, who also had a 7-year old son, responded that she would never let her son or any child of hers serve in the military, because "Denmark is not worth dying for." Danes assume and expect that Americans WILL die for Denmark, because we're useful idiots and they are our intellectual superiors. Danes have an excellent opinion of themselves. No Dane will EVER die defending Greenland.
An option is that we just come to an agreement with Denmark that the US will do all the defense of Greenland, including with American lives, and send Denmark an annual bill for the cost. About $100+ billion per year. It's a fair trade for no Dane dying to defend a block of ice they haven't really wanted in at least 50 years. Danes have minimal investment in Greenland, their national identity is not tied to Greenland, and they've made Native "Greenlanders" welfare vassals who hate Danes & Denmark. Danes can't get rid of Greenland because the island's inhabitants are incapable of being a functional independent country. It would be like sending children to play in traffic.
Insert Trump into that dysfunctional relationship, and I expect a deal will be made. Denmark's ego has been bruised, but there is room for a mutually satisfactory deal.
Useful! Thank you.
Appreciate this insight, thank you.
Me too
The Status Quo of Davros,ECB, WTO have done a great job for themselves. The rise of the right worldwide is a result of an unelected elite who have done a bad job. I am not a Trump supporter,I forget who said this "sometimes the wrong person does the right things for wrong reason "
They keep saying that the Greenlanders don’t want it. How do they know? The pollsters probably asked, “Do you want Trump’s boot on your neck?” What if they asked, “How do you feel about being better off, and protected from the Russians and Chinese?”
For your first question. It wasn't asked in such a way, that's for sure. And even if it were, they know they wouldn't be losing basic freedoms if the US took over (yes, even Trump's USA) but the freedoms they have today are definitely the same if not better.
They know they're protected from the Russians and Chinese by the simple fact that the USA, owning Greenland or not, would never let it fall into their hands. Also, would they be better off ? I sincerely doubt it, at least for most of them. The absence in the USA of universal healthcare is a glaring example of that, just for one example.
Love the people of Canada......loath their woke, progressive political leaders. They criticize President Trump as a bully and an authoritarian. Yet, I'll never forget during the Covid pandemic, how Prime Minister Trudeau crushed the truckers' protest and froze their personal bank accounts. European leaders (especially the Brussels crowd) are also a bunch of smug, arrogant, bureaucrat elitists many of whom take their marching orders from Greta Thunberg and her ilk.
if "Pax Americana" means
- USA pays most of the support to protect Europe from falling under USSR/Russia
- USA sends in the money and marines to calm down every hot spot that breaks out
- USE endlessly tries to bribe all the terrorist-supporters to be our friends
then yes let's have an end.