WEST PALM BEACH, Florida - Finnish President Alexander Stubb made a surprise trip on Saturday to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida, where the two leaders discussed strengthening their countries' bilateral partnership and played a round of golf. Read more at straitstimes.com.
I just couldn’t disagree more. Finland doesn’t have to actually do anything different. Telling Trump how great he is in private can get him off your back entirely, because he’s a narcissist. All he cares about is whether or not someone likes him. There’s absolutely nothing about this meeting that “just confirms Finland won’t be a major obstacle to his plan and/or Finland will just go along with it.”
You are making the same mistake every player has made in regards to Trump.
You are under estimating him and you believe he is transactional in relationships. You give him X, he gives you Y. Trump is NOT transactional. Trump sees you giving him X as weakness and will try to take Y and Z from you in the future. He will never give you Y unless he is forced to.
Trump does not give a shit if you like him. Trump only cares that you will follow him and do what he says either willingly or by coercion.
Europe and Canadian leaders came to, or called Trump at Mar-a-lago in the weeks after the election and kissed his ass.
It accomplished nothing. Trump is still moving forward with tariffs and his agenda to break up NATO and make America a regional power with hegemony over North America.
If you want to figure out what Trump is actually up to ask yourself why does he want Greenland? We already have military bases there. Denmark will let us build more or exploit the resources on that island.
The only reason you would seek to annex Greenland is if you are working toward a future where Denmark would see you as an enemy and would not allow the US access to Greenland.
Think about what would have to happen to make that a reality…
I say this as an American, Europe needs to start arming itself ASAP. Because no one here has managed to stop this Orange Fucker. I don’t have any faith we can stop him from whatever shitty plan he has.