Trump Hits Richest European Nations With Tariffs Over Resistance To Greenland Deal

In the first major crisis in US-UK relations since the Labour government came to power in 2024, US President Donald Trump, having already threatened to quit NATO if members do not support him on Greenland, today announced a 10 per cent tariff on all goods sent to the US by Britain and its European allies from Feb 1. The levy will increase to 25 per cent on June 1, unless Britain and seven other major European economic powers agree to let The USA take control of Denmark's semi auonomous territory, Greenland.)

As well as UK and Denmark the levy will aply to Germany, France, Norway, Finland, Netherlands and Sweden.

Trumps announcement triggered a round of outraged pearl clutching from the political maiden aunts who lead the affected nations. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would be “pursuing this directly with the US administration” although what effect this personality - deficient nonentity thinks he can have is a mystery.

French President Emmanuel Macron was more forceful (well at least his wife has balls even if he doesn't,) saying of the tariffs of the tariffs: “No intimidation nor threat will influence us.” He probably means the cheese eating surrender monkeys will do what they uually do.

Trump’s move will force Sir Keir and other leaders to either suffer the economic consequences of an international trade war or agree to cede land belonging to a Nato ally, threatening the future of the security alliance. If they had a grain of cmmon sense beteen them instead of blethering about international law they would recognise that with Europe having recently shown itself to be totally ineffectual militarily and politically and Greenland, with its wealth of mineral resources being vulnerable to pressure from hostile powers, they should be talking abot a deal with the USA on the basis of security guaratees for mineral rights.

Economists have warned that the new tariffs could push Britain into recession if they were kept in place long-term and with most European nations in de facto recession even though creative accounting is masking the dire state of their economies they are not in any position to stand on their principles.

Mr Trump said: “This tariff will be due and payable until such time as a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland.”

This is just bluster of course, Trump is merely laying out his opening gambit in what would necessarily be long and complex negotiations for a deal over Greenland. The US president has for the past few months been ramping up his threats to seize the Arctic island either through force or a deal, saying Europe has insufficiently defended the strategic territory that he claims is coveted by China and Russia.

A big puzzle in the equation is why Denmark is so determined to preserve the status quo around Greenland. The Danes, like other Scandinavians, are a politically correct bunch and may think they are preserving the rights of Greenland's Inuit population to continue their traditional way of life unmolested. However the Inuit have for years been pressing for full independence so there is evidently not much graitude for Denmark's political and financial support over the centuries.

The Danes are not stupid - though the Inuit may be, unless they they think they may get a better deal from Russia or China that Europe and the USA. If that is the case then they are not just stupid, they're idiots.

Something that none of the media coverage of Trump’s desire to control Greenland seems to mention is that Greenland has large deposits of rare earth minerals that so far it’s decided not to mine for “environmental” reasons. Although a lot of rare earths are used in “renewable” energy generation such as wind turbines which Trump isn’t interested in they’re also used in a lot of computers/electronics including a lot of military systems. China currently controls 85% of the world’s supply of rare earths and in terms of national security this is a major problem for the US. All this and the security question will ensure Trump will get Greenland eventually. If we liken the manoeuvres to a game of poker, Trump has four aces and Europe has no cards to play.

We Boggart Bloggers, having discussed it over a couple of pints in The Albion earlier, suspect that Trump’s main reason for wanting to control Greenland is to ensure the US has sufficient amounts of essential raw materials.

We are not soothsayers or mind readers but beteen us have vast experience and based on knowledge of past events feel there may well be secret talks going on to arrange a deal whereby Greenland permits mining and in return for US security guarantees American investors and commodity traders can buy the output at preferential rates.

Talk of military action or buying Greenland may well just be a tough opening position in negotiations, as we have suggested bove, to try and force a deal whereby Greenland remains part of Denmark and the US gets rare earths and oil exploration rights..

What seems strange in Smarmer's response is he was so eager to giveaway our strategically important Indian Ocean territory (the Chagos Islands,) to a client state of communist China and not only that, to PAY Mauritius for taking it off our hands, many billions of pounds we cannot afford, yet our virtue signalling PM is absolutely adamant that Denmark must not sell Greenland and sends a powerful military fore of ONE squaddie to Greenland as our contribution to defending the island. Perhaps Kommie Keir has been told by his Chinese masters that in addition to approving plans for their spy hub super embassy in London he must to do all he can to deliver the world's biggest island into their hands.

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Destroying The Planet To Save It

15 November 2023

In the unthinking stampede of politicians and 'scientists' towards achieving 'Net Zero' and thus 'saving the planet’ from death by human civilisation, perhaps a reality check is long overdue for the delusional Green Blob and the virtue signalling politicians. In order to save the planet from a largely imaginary threat based on an ideology behind which there is very little scientific and absolutely zero empirical evidence.

And as if that was not enough to make any sane person stop and think, the solutions proposed by the Green Blob, apart from being so expensive they would destroy every functioning national economy on the planet, are going to be more damaging to the planet than continuing to burn coal and gas as our main source of energy and fuel out vehicles with oil.  The Blob propose abandoning this reliable, consistent source in favour of intermittent, unreliable sources, primarily wind and solar powered generators. The Boggart Bloggers have written on the shortcomings of these technologies many times.

A small, clean, green, and utterly reliant on the vagaries of the weather, 100-megawatt wind farm needs 30,000 tons of iron ore; 50,000 tons of concrete and 900 tons of non-recyclable plastic.

For the same power from an ever-so-green solar farm you need to increase those figures by 150 per cent.

An battery pack for a small electric car weighs half a ton, to make just one requires the mining of 250 tons of bedrock somewhere on the planet, and the smelting and refining processes consume vast amounts of energy mostly derived from oil, natural gas and coal.

All these 'clean, green, renewable' methods of generation require what are called ‘rare earth metals,' which are actually quite plentiful but occur in such low concentrations that separating them from the ores in which they are found makes them phenomenally expensive, as well as resulting in vast quantities of toxic shite (including cyanide, arsenic, nitric and hydrochloric acid,) so a phenomenal 2000 tons of toxic waste is produced and most of it is dumped in the environment, just to produce one ton of the any of the rare earth metals needed to make wind turbines, solar panels or lithium ion batteries. On top of all this, processing and shipping is required to the developed nations, and this is usually provided from companies based in from unregulated regimes (e.g. Liberia,) with very lax environmental standards.

As mentioned above Solar and wind generation is limited by its dependence on weather conditions, another issue we have commented on many times, but we need energy ALL the time, so we have to have permanent back-up of a type that can kick in instantly because both cloud cover and wind speeds can change very quickly and it is not possible to turn a key or press a button and start a combined cycle gas generator they way we start our car or switch on the vacuum cleaner.

And then there is the land requirement because the amount of productive land lost to production of food due to the spread of 'renewables' is astounding.

To accommodate 2,000 MW of gas or nuclear power generation requires the same area of two 18-hole golf courses. Whereas, accommodating 2,000 MW of wind power requires an area the size of Belgium!

Then, of course, you still need 2,000 MW of gas or nuclear power to accommodate those hundreds of occasions each year when wind and solar power is producing absolutely nothing.

One of the proposed solutions is to build vast battery farms to store surplus energy when wind and sunshine give us a surplus, but apart from their not being enough known lithium reserves in the world to provide adequate backup for just on developed nation, a statistic I read recently claims the giant Tesla factory in Nevada would take 500 years to make enough batteries to supply the USA with electricity for 1 day!

After 30 years of development and countless billions of £$€ in grants, subsidies and incentive payments, wind and solar still supply less than 5 per cent of the world’s energy. You may have seen screaming headlines in mainstream media proclaiming that on a particular day 'renewables' generated over 50% of the UK's consumed electricity, b.ut contrast that with the deafening silence when on cold, windless winter days when solar and wind between then provide less than 5%.

On top of that, in common with all technology, wind turbines and solar panels  are built from non-renewable materials, and they break down, parts wear out or break and have to be replaced time and time again, so installation is definitely not a one-off cost.

Instead of ‘saving the planet’ the Green Blob and their rampaging renewables are actually devouring it!

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