This is also from Daily Dose of Democracy
‘Danish prime minister issues fiery statement after Trump threatens to take Greenland
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen wasted no time issuing a pointed warning to Donald Trump about his renewed threats to simply take Greenland, following the Trump regime’s operation in Venezuela over the weekend. “I have to say this very directly to the United States: It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland,” Frederiksen wrote in a statement on a Danish government website on Sunday. “The United States has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Commonwealth.” Speaking to reporters on Air Force One following the Venezuelan raid, Trump doubled down on his intent to continue his imperial conquests and took obnoxious pot shots at Denmark, barking, “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it, that I can tell you. To boost up security in Greenland. They added one more dog sled.” Frederiksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen have repeatedly denounced the prospect of a US takeover of the island, and a January 2025 poll similarly found that 85% of Greenland’s residents opposed it.’
Despite the celebrations by ordinary Venezuelans of Trump’s removal of Maduro, the deputy-president is showing dangerous signs of insubordination and independence to the new Trumpist order. The Orange Generalissimo told the public that the deputy prime minister and the Venezuelan regime would do anything America tells them, adding that they don’t have a choice.
Er, not quite. The deputy President, Delcy Rodgriguez, has stated that Venezuela is not going to be anyone’s colony.
I wonder if any further adventures Trump launches in Latin America will lead to a revival in Arielismo. This was a Latin American anti-American ideology that emerged first in Argentina in the later 19th century. The cause was the Spanish-American War, in which America tried to liberate, or nick, Cuba from the Spanish. This resulted in a complete reversal of attitudes to America amongst Argentinian intellectuals. Previously they had strongly supported America. The war led them instead to reject this, viewing America instead as an oppressive imperialist power. The movement took its name from Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. They identified with Caliban, the bestial servant of the play, whom they saw as an indigenous person suffering imperial oppression, just as they felt they were under American hegemony.
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