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[. @GebrPouz]

How it started. How it’s going.

[India Observer @IndiaObserver23]

BREAKING -

The US Secretary of State says they will not allow India to develop to a point where it can compete with the US.

The US will never make the same mistake with India that it made with China.

[Ruba Ali Al-Hassani رُبى الحَسَني @RubaAlHassani]

Carney supported the kidnapping of Maduro & his wife. He supports US sanctions on Cuba. He never condemned the Minab school massacre. He regurgitates Zionist talking points. He supports Trump's "annihilation" of Iran.

What more must he say before Canadians hold him accountable??

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Sam Altman is warning the world about Sam Altman, and says we need to stop Sam Altman because Sam Altman can’t stop Sam Altman.

[38Parrots @Parrots38]

Which of course makes European bases legitimate targets for Iran.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

This will mean economic catastrophe tor Europe but some of us warned months ago it was inevitable

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

A single Russian missile hitting Berlin, London or Washington would trigger a response so overwhelming that humanity would be lucky to emerge from it at all. And yet munitions manufactured and guided by NATO powers are now routinely hitting Moscow. With no democratic legitimacy — they hold favourability ratings of 15-40% in countries that have no real say on questions of war and peace — Europe’s ruling elites openly state their aim of dismembering Russia. To give their intentions teeth, they have embarked on an armament drive that now exceeds the annualised increases in military spending in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Even the tensest moments of the Cold War, which we now know put us seconds away from annihilation, provide no precedent for the scale of the folly unfolding today. Since there is no meaningful anti-war movement in Europe, we have reached the incredible point where our main barrier to nuclear annihilation is the thinning patience of the leadership in the Kremlin. I don’t think we have ever faced a situation so brittle and been so deeply unprepared to confront it.

[B/R Football @brfootball]

First international break since the World Cup 🤩

[Clara von Langen ♟ 🇩🇪 @claravonlangen]

How to deal with Europe: threaten them, insult their country and military, and then the weak little Europeans will give you their land so you stop saying mean things.

[Joe Emersberger @rosendo_joe]

Oil-rich Brazil has not sold a drop of oil to Cuba this year because Lula is a fraud who bows before Trump.

[Momodou ✊🏿 @MomodouTaal]

I was banned from teaching and declared persona non-grata by Cornell police. Prohibited from being on campus and was told that if I want to see a doctor, I must seek permission first. My crime? Being anti-genocide. Yet if you do this, you write a letter and you’re free to roam.

[René 🟥🚩🇵🇸 @rcmoya84]

This entire speech being spoken from the dais of an organisation intended to prevent this is truly disgusting.

[Manuel Bompard @mbompard]

Le même jour, la France autorise le criminel de guerre Netanyahu, sous mandat d’arrêt de la Cour Pénale Internationale, à survoler son espace aérien.

On atteint des sommets d’hypocrisie.

[TKs-Mantis @TKsMantis]

Jesus fucking Christ that is a dark future on the horizon.

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

Imagine if Stalin or Mao had threatened to annihilate an entire nation from the UN podium. Western media would use it forever as proof of communist barbarism. But when an American president does it, they call it foreign policy.

[Ilyas Chronique @IlyasChronique]

Les dirigeants du football AFRICAIN qui mettent en valeur un joueur FRANÇAIS pour le Ballon d’Or mdrrrrrr

(Ils ont jamais fait ça pour un joueur africain)

[Cedar Salvo 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @cedarsalvo]

A former Al-Qaeda leader speaks in New York City days after the 9/11 anniversary. The contradiction is stark because the “conspiracies” you were conditioned to dismiss are simply fact. Al-Qaeda was always and still is a U.S. asset. The joke is on anyone still pretending otherwise

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Ok, we now have the actual text of the Greenland deal (https://t.co/VxZ1Q47jsh), so we can say how it compares to the existing 1951 arrangement and who, between Trump and Denmark, lied the most in their framing of it.

Long story short - which may surprise some - the Danes lied the most: Trump is pretty much correct in saying that this new deal grants the US control of Greenland.

Let's look into what changed compared to the 1951 deal.

1) This is now a permanent arrangement: whereas the existing 1951 deal only lasted as long as NATO existed, this one "does not have an end date and may only be amended by mutual consent."

It even survives a hypothetical future independence of Greenland: in that event, Denmark and Greenland must ensure that the independent Greenlandic state "affirmatively assume[s] all of the rights and obligations of the Kingdom of Denmark specified in this Agreement."

2) In the 1951 agreement, the US could set up bases only where both governments agreed, and only on the basis of NATO planning. The new deal locks in three bases: the US can "modernize and expand its activities" at Pituffik, its only base in Greenland until now, and "shall be allowed to establish an additional Defense Area at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig." Further bases beyond these 3 can be justified by the defense of "the American continent," a US interest rather than a NATO one.

Also, quite subtle but this is interesting: Article IV(iii) says that "the United States may establish additional defense areas in Greenland" and that consultations are then held "to decide implementation details based on mutual agreement." What this means is that the principle of a new base is automatically granted and only the implementation details require agreement.

Article VII also gives the US "the right to raise concerns regarding construction, or change of use" of any building near a US base, after which the parties decide together what to do. Which means that the US has a say over civilian planning around its bases.

3) On US military movement across Greenland, the wording change between the 1951 agreement and this new one is quite funny.

The 1951 text said (Art. V(3)): the US "may enjoy... the right of free access to and movement between the defense areas through Greenland, including territorial waters, by land, air and sea," but only "in accordance with general rules mutually agreed upon and issued by the appropriate Danish authority in Greenland."

The new one says: "the United States of America shall enjoy... the right of free access to and movement between the Defense Areas through Greenland, including the Territorial Waters, by land, air and sea."

That's it: "May" becomes "shall," and the US military movement no longer has to follow rules "issued by the appropriate Danish authority in Greenland." The US also gets something new on top: "undersea access to and movement within the Territorial Waters," i.e. submarines.

4) Non-NATO exclusion: non-NATO states are barred from military installations or a persistent presence in Greenland unless all three parties approve, giving the US an effective permanent veto. The 1951 deal had no equivalent clause.

5) Investment screening: this is entirely new. "States or investors from a state that is not a member of NATO, a NATO partner, or an EU member state" (i.e. Russia, China, India, the Gulf States, etc.), "shall not be allowed to have (i) control, (ii) significant influence, or (iii) access to non-public information...within Particularly Sensitive Sectors or Activities in the territory of Greenland (including the Territorial Waters), unless agreed between the Parties."

Again, it basically means that the US has a permanent veto over who can invest in strategic sectors in Greenland, as far as non-NATO or EU states are concerned.

6) Lastly, in stark contrast with the 1951 deal, the framing of the deal changes significantly: this new deal is largely framed around the US.

The 1951 agreement existed only "for the benefit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization." The new one lists the defense of "the American continent" as an objective, celebrates "the irreplaceable role" of the United States military as well as "the United States' indispensable historical and ongoing contributions to the security and defense of Greenland," and names the establishment of Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense system as a key goal.

So, to sum up:
- The US secured a permanent military foothold that even an independent Greenland would inherit whether it likes it or not
- The US now has veto power over any non-NATO military presence in Greenland, and over who can invest in its strategic infrastructure and resources (beyond NATO and the EU)
- Denmark signed away its say over the principle of new US bases, with only the right to discuss the "implementation details"
- Danish authorities no longer set the rules for US military movement across the island
- And all of it is now justified by the defense of "the American continent"

I don't know in which universe this even remotely "recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom and the Greenlandic people's right to self-determination," as Danish PM Mette Frederiksen put it (https://t.co/dHOavrPB3r).

Yes, the preamble of the text cynically "reaffirms" Danish sovereignty but, in my book, when you let a foreign country put bases on your soil, move its troops without following your rules and veto who else can come in, in perpetuity, after it spent two years threatening to take you by force, the word for that is anything but "recognized sovereignty" 🤷

[Actu Foot @ActuFoot_]

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[2x Champion d’Europe MBE 🥷🏾 @chokola160]

parmi tous ces joueurs, devinez lequel veut « ramener » un ballon d’or à l’afrique 😭😭

[Pinko Jack @PinkoJack92]

The way he speaks you would think there wasnt a pipeline in Turkey sending oil from Azerbaijan to Israel providing 40% of its oil consumption but you'd be wrong!