I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.

No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.

I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.

The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.

It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.

💔

[paulk@writing.exchange]

@randahl And the same sentiment spreads (spread) through Europe.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@paulk it's politicians, media personalities, commentators, artists, and ordinary people you meet at the mall: People are livid.

[notsoloud@expressional.social]

@randahl
Three times, with the threat of Soviet invasion looming for decades.

[jgivoni@mastodon.social]

@randahl 👍
It stuns me however that it had to come to this, before sentiment flipped, when there's been so many previous examples of the same kind of disrespect.

To be fair, it's not so much the US as a whole (the majority do not agree with the administration), but Trump and his fascist pack.

[scooter@labyrinth.zone]

@randahl I'd like to say that we do - but to be honest, I just don't know any more.

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@randahl Sadly people realize this only when they are affected, the US has been a shitty imperialistic aggressor doing horrible things to countries all over the world and to their pripelje people like forever.

[mwyman@mastodon.social]

@randahl many of us know, and understand what’s happened, and feel really ashamed of it. 💔

[truls46@mastodon.social]

@randahl I don't see this as a threat to just Denmark, but to all countries in Europe.

[paulk@writing.exchange]

@randahl And we/they should be. I can only hope with 100% power that the ones who can actually do something against that idiot will actually DO SOMETHING and not suck up to DonOld again when the going gets a bit rougher.

I'm always looking for ways to reach politicians and ask them/urge them to act.

[fgbjr@indieweb.social]

@randahl They've lost the majority of Americans as well. The only things the junta have going for them at this point is control over instruments of violence and money conduits.

[anttipeltola@mastodon.world]

@randahl

I see this as permission finally to do our own thing. If we start self-hosting our own cloud services, then we can tell them to go pound sand when the US inevitably starts to whine about the current account deficit this and other European sovereignty actions will cause.

No hard feelings from me. Without the US resupplying Ukraine through the first three years, they would've run out of munitions.

[petrescatraian@libranet.de]

@randahl I am still hopeful that once his term ends things will return to normal, at least to a certain extent. After all, there's a lot of bad stuff going out in the world right now and democracies gotta stick together to counter them (if the US will remain a democracy, that is).

But I do share this feeling of uncertainty and distrust, even as a Romanian (where us, Romanians, have been more sympathetic towards the US, even during the communist regime). We literally negotiated a visa waiver agreement, it was all set to start in march, last year. Then Trump shat on everything. Then he decided it would be such a wise idea to reduce the number of soldiers, even though there's a war going on right across our border.

I'll start to buy more local and European going forward, at least for the time being.

[rii_cck@mas.to]

@randahl And it's not just Denmark. The US can fuck off until the Trump regime is behind bars. Then we can talk again.

[projektionsyta@mastodon.nu]

@randahl

This is topped by the sloppy, false allegations that Denmark is a bad ally, and that Nato allies can't be trusted to assist when the US need them. When the Danish body count is the same as the American. I remember seeing Danish Nato vets in Copenhagen after a manifestation, in their uniforms, some in wheelchairs or on crutches, depending on if they had lost one or both legs.

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@randahl The north remembers

[tarnport@mastodon.green]

@randahl I have the same sense: irrevocable rupture. I think is it was actually delayed for a long time, through patient hope and maybe also sunk-cost fallacy, at least since the Iraq war. This is just the clear, sad reckoning and admission, the final divorce after having tried to make a bad marriage work for a long time. It may seem sudden to one mate, but the other has had reasons for decades.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@randahl

Yup. It’s going to be a long time I think before Americans really figure out how much damage has been done. Commercial media platforms aren’t gonna talk about it much and not in any useful detail.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@Rii_cck @randahl

Conviction cannot just stop it Donald Trump. The billionaires who put him in power and who push this agenda of annexation, so they can have the spoils distributed amongst themselves, they too have to be dealt with.. the way to deal with them is to make billionaires not possible. No one should have that much wealth. The companies that make that level of wealth possible should not be also be possible.

Taxation and antitrust are a necessity

[tarnport@mastodon.green]

@jgivoni @randahl American here. Please don't be too quick to let Americans as a whole off the hook. There are a lot of people who give lip service to opposition to the administration who have not sacrificed a blessed thing, but sat on a sofa looking at Facebook, and now the chaos they have allowed without opposition at home is spilling onto the world. Americans have not fought and now they want everyone else to fight.