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Comment by thih9 | Hacker News Reader

Given the other tagline is TACO[1], I guess the “who's going to stop me?” is less rhetorical and more literal.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out

The TACOs have never been unilateral, you need some sort of pain they care about. The bond market spiking interest rates contained the worst of the tariffs, SCOTUS rulings have curtailed some of his more egregious abuses, protests and their fallout (innocent people getting killed) helped to contain ICE.

Denmark and/or Greenland needs to seize those containers, keep them under armed guard, and then give Greenland Energy a reasonable deadline to come and retrieve them or else they'll be destroyed.

I don't see the contradiction. "Who's going to stop me?" implies that the expectation is for no one to stop him. But when someone eventually does, it's TACO time.

What’s Greenland going to do? Make a strongly worded statement? They’re kinda out of options.

Seize the equipment and people.

Seriously that's the most likely outcome here. Everyone on the ground gets detained and deported. And loses a bunch of money.

... and expect the executive branch to be maduro-ed away into some secret cia torture place or straight Guantanamo

It's an open question. Will Europe rally behind Denmark in WW3 NATO vs USA, or will we see transatlantic appeasement?

There is a negative chance of Europe going to war against the USA

How do you figure they are out of options?! There are many steps between mere statements and actual war. Economic sanctions for one.

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