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| European Crybabies Are Having a Cow Over Trump's Interest in Greenland |
| 2026-01-15 |
| [PJ] If you’re an active user on the X platform, one of the ways you can tell if the U.S. is over the target, figuratively, is when you post something and an army of paid trolls and others come out of the woodwork attacking you. This is called a "social media storm." It is never organic and always intentional. As often as not, these sorts of swarm attacks happen as a result of some benign posts. That brings me to this little ditty from Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, who doesn’t want to dissolve his country’s arranged, subservient marriage to Denmark. My response to the anti-Trump X account was, "Without the U.S. you definitely don't have NATO, and you likely don't have the EU when you lose NATO." Since on X, there is little room for nuance, I get that I might have skipped past a good deal of detail and "constructive dialogue," but my point was what it was. NATO is a paper tiger without the U.S., and Denmark needs NATO, as does the rest of the EU. I’ve posted things like this a thousand times and not gotten any engagement. This time, however, a lot of anonymous accounts with zero or just a few followers pushed back on me pretty quickly. This is usually the first sign your post caught the attention of a social media bot farm or troll factory. Someone was paying at least a few people to monitor the Greenland story and jump on anyone who would support the Trump administration’s interest in the country. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |