Let’s see how US ambassadors and diplomats will feel in 5 years, with all the bridges to allies that are currently being burned.
Hey, then we can redundant their positions, what with the having no allies. Think of the money we could save on their salaries and flying them around. No downside at all. This is winning, right?
They won’t be ambassadors by then, they will either agree to become quasi-military emissaries to negotiate concessions and surrenders to our dominion, or they will be retired or just killed.
Utter nonsense. First thing you do in a military conflict is withrdawing your diplomatic personnel.
Yeah but I can totally see the Trump administration forgetting about that part and just leaving their foreign ambassadors out to dry.
Let the ambassador move there then expel him a day later
You dont have to accept the governor who’s been recommended by the us govetnment.
Calling it a joke is too charitable to this fascist.
This oompa loompa looking motherfucker probably couldn’t even point to Iceland on a map. These backwater idiots need to just die already.
He looks like tweedledee fucked a toad.
Funny; I joined Lemmy today in hopes of a slightly higher standard of discourse than the last platform. But, I have to admit, that’s very accurate… well done.
Well there are multiple instances of Lemmy if you want to try another
That’s insulting to Oompa Loompas. Dude is Humpty Dumpty. These guys are really on the expansionist vibe. They just rooked the Americans and they think they can con the rest of us like we don’t let our people go to actual school or something?!
I think Finland would have said bye bye to him for that. USA could then have sent someone else to replace him.
Iceland cannot, because it doesn’t have an army of its own.One Americans point of view.
This strangly sounds like exactly what the goal of Trump’s America First policy is.
It is. Collapse the US economy and alienate its citizens internationally so they have no where to run. From the ashes the techbro billionaires build a libertarian hellscape of FreedomCities.
This 💯%
US companies won’t get expelled. They’ll be forced to rename and still funnel money. As long as the EU has capitalism it’ll find a way to get money to the US billionaires.
Not expelled maybe, but the trade will totally crash. Trading with a US company will be an enormous risk and EU citizens will be fourius.
Ah, he’s from Misery. Shocker.
Wait… 52nd? Did something happen while I was sleeping?
Trump has already called Canada the 51st. None of his yes-men would dare be caught altering the big man’s numbering. Even if they do appear to be trying to obtain 52 first. Edit: Or possibly 53. Got my wires crossed between Greenland and Iceland.
(Trump hasn’t quite grasped, or is refusing to acknowledge, that Canada is already split into state-like provinces, nor that those are split into counties in much the same way as US states are.)
I’m pretty sure trump is looking at a Mercator projection and going “wow look how big Canada and Greenland are!”
They are assuming they will heroically conquer Greenland first. Then there seem to be about 10 other countries on the USA’s “to invade” list. The USA is a sick country.
As if the US government would grant them statehood and representation.
They won’t grant them right to vote atleast, since they will not vote for the “correct” (neo-fascist) party.
The US has a lot of anger they want to take out on someone.
There’s a guy who has indulged every craving he’s ever had.
He looks like a worthless old pedofile.
In America they call that “ruling class”
I was with a group of friends and there was nothing serious about it
Nice of him to summarize his entire political decision-making framework for us.
So either Canada or Greenland is off the hook
Nah, the US is going for the “easy” targets first.
My guess for the order is Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, Canada with other small Middle American countries sprinkled after Mexico and during/after Canada.
I just hope the US implodes first.
The US cant even maintain a war against rice farmers. They arent going to sustain wars against that many countries with hostile populations. The US military may be the best in the world but the US itself can barely hold itself together, let alone new territory.
Also if they invade us I will personally go down the Geneva Convention list and implement every war crime imaginable.
So his excuse is people were joking about the US invading Greenland and so naturally they started joking about the US invading Iceland.
Yeah that tracks, a totally innocent comment that no one could possibly take offence to in any way. Except of course the US is threatening to invade Greenland so it’s not really a joke. More statement of future intent.
Even in current circumstances; your average Joe could perhaps pass the suggestion off as some kind of sardonic humour… but actually being the US Ambassador to Iceland and saying it? That’s either a brain-dead lack of self-awareness, a thinly veiled ‘flex’ to your Republican peers or, of course, both.
When i hear US Ambassador the first thing that comes to mind is a clown.
We have a sign for that.
Don’t know it in ISL although.
I don’t speak sign. What is this?
It’s a bull taking a s**t. Pretty cool
PS: Afaik*
Did you hover-over the video or selected
view sourceon your threadiverse client? ’Cause I alternated texted the definition.Kinda hard to do that on mobile. I don’t even see a hint that there might be more to see by switching to my laptop.
I actually believe him this was just a stupid joke but I still think they should deny him entry and reject him as an ambassador because fuck him, that’s why. Don’t give those fuckers any benefit of the doubt, use any excuse you can get to hurt them.
