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I don't know if Americans realize what happened between the US and Denmark.
No matter whom I listen to, the feeling is the same: Our bilateral relationship is dead.
I grew up in a country filled with gratitude towards The US, because of The Normandy Landings. The US was loved.
The feeling now is anger. Our Kingdom has been threatened twice in 100 years: Hitler's occupation and Trump's attempted annexation of Greenland.
It saddens me, but I sense this will not easily be forgotten.
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@randahl Hate the government and the people who voted for the loser.
I am an American and I do not agree with the government. There are many of us. #LosEstadosUnidos #Philadelphia
@randahl I straight up wish that the US would balkanized. My region has way more in common culturally and politically with Eastern Canada than with the South or Midwest.
This is also true internally. The structure and institutions are so damaged now that no one I know would believe anything coming from the CDC or DOJ. The self-poisoning has been so fast and thorough the old USA is not coming back in my lifetime. I fear the best we can hope for is balkanization.
@randahl I don't understand why people give something which happened nearly 100 years ago this much importance.
@randahl @jack_daniel As an American, I can’t blame you. I myself may never forgive the Americans who voted for Trump. It reframes my entire understanding of my country, and not in a good way.
@randahl My grandfather was on the beaches of Normandy. He was just a kid, pulling bodies out of the water & onto the ship. I can't imagine what he would have to say now that there's a draft-dodging, traitorous, child r*pist destroying all of our alliances. Fxck Nazis 🤬
@randahl it's a disgrace. My congressman is a veteran. He's fought alongside others in NATO. And the most he could summon in response to my complaint about how Trump and the executive branch are treating our allies is a form letter saying that we're not going to invade Greenland.
@randahl as an american, i hope that one day, when we get rid of our dictatorship and make sure it can never come back, that we can be of comfortable terms with the free world
@randahl Trump has no idea about the importance of trust. He is pretty good in getting what he wants - kind of like a child throwing a tamper tantrum at the grocery store - but this is all short term. In the long term, trusts broken and it will take a very long time to rebuild. America is losing soft power at unprecedented speeds.
@randahl The trust won't even begin to be rebuilt until everyone in the Trump administration is rotting in jail, and laws are passed to prevent this sort of shit to ever pass again.
@randahl
The US has squandered its resources on military & financial might, while degrading its education & mental health programs. The result is enough ignorant psychopaths to hijack the cockpit & send us into a tailspin.
Teach your children well. C,S,&N -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj8FlXGPcOQ
I don't know what the future holds (no one does, of course), but it will take a long time and a lot of hard work to repair all the damage that Trump's United States is doing to international relations. Given that it will be possible at all.
#USA #Trump #Europe #Denmark #Greenland #Canada #politics #peace #internationallaw
@randahl I think the damage is just getting started, unfortunately.
@randahl I do hope in my lifetime no serious politician will ever again consider USA an "ally" or "friend". So many red lines has been crossed that this should define the relationship not for months, but decades to come.
@randahl It is not only your bilateral relationship, it's that of all (former) U.S. Western allies. First, because we are not indifferent to what happens to our friends and allies and secondly because we're in that together and whatever this regime does to you it will also eventually do to us.
And that's the appalling part: not only don't they realise the damage they caused in their relationship with the Danes, but they even don't see the damage it did on their relationship with the free world.
@randahl
The rest of the world is only now learning what #Democrats have known for decades:
#Republicans can't be trusted.
@randahl hear the same in Belgium (center of the EU), less so as we weren't the direct victim, but before nobody would talk bad against US.
Now everyone call them Lazy, Traitor etc
@randahl More or less same here in France. But I fear our own ruling class, as well as being angry at the US, is in the same time taking notes. Many many politicians here are eager to implement most of Trump's nazi politics.
I understand why Europeans are rightfully angry at the United States, and this will be a generational break. I wish more people like you were talking about the advance of Nazism in Europe, though, because the same movement that staged the coup in the United States is at work in Europe.
It's a mistake to focus too much energy on foreign threats, big though it is, because the fascists will use that fear in their own campaign to take over your countries.
of course, I agree with you. the USA must win back the trust of the world through actions for the common good. this racist insane fascist regime must be vanquished first.
It's sad and infuriating from our side, too. Our democracy is dead. Our system of checks and balances is dead. So although something like 90% of Americans polled were strongly against attacking our friends and allies, there was somehow no way to stop this travesty. I blame everyone in DC. I am confident we'll get our democracy back. But the loss of our allies is permanent. It's tragic. My silver lining is this: ironically, America alone doesn't need to be armed to the teeth anymore.
@randahl It should not be forgotten. That this has happened so quickly and with no real resistance from the US political sphere shows the US government is not trustworthy and any pretence to 'special relationships' is a farce.
Their own constitution is not worth the paper it is written on.
We have to operate on those principles.
@randahl it saddens me as an American, but we brought it in ourselves, the ultimate FAFO.
And the problem isn't Trump, the problem is this society that allowed him into power, most egregiously the second time.
@randahl Unfortunately, I believe that most people in the USA don't know what is going on in the relationship between the USA and Europe. If they have an inkling, they probably don't know most of it.
Americans that are just watching regular news and are not actively looking for neutral information... are inundated with propaganda about the greatness of Trump.
Case in point the recent Fox News coverage of Trump at Davos where he soundly defeated the EU.... ... .. 😑
Germany has recovered well* and I'd be surprised if Denmark did not have a good relationship with the current German nation.
Time will tell if the USA becomes more isolated and the next North Korea or if we recovery and rebuild and become the next (post-WWII) Germany.
*notwithstanding recent ADF activities - far-right groups are springing up everywhere.
I work at a Danish company owned by a US one, working in the US. It’s been socially strained since we joined, but I dread how things will go now.
@randahl yeah, same feelings here. At least the more evolved Dutch…
It’s about time (long overdue actually) that our politicians got their heads out of their bottoms and do the right things.
@randahl For a lack of a better term, it is going to take a period of de-nazification to even begin mending relationships. To be clear, the American political and oligarch classes are riddled with collaborators and outright Nazis, so things will continue to escalate until they face consequences. My personal estimation is that this period will last 20-40 years especially considering that the opposition party (Democrats) are beholden to the same oligarchs who helped cause this.
@randahl The same here in France, people are immensely in rage. But fortunately, those with a brain can differ between a fascist state and the good people who try to resist. And meanwhile even some Republicans don't like thes politics. I think, a strong Europe showing red lines will help the resisting people. We shouldn't forget them.
@randahl Sadly, I agree with you. I'm a former British soldier. With his threats to Greenland and now his belittling of allied contributions to the conflict in Afghanistan (at the USA's request), I am absolutely disgusted and, to be honest, worried for the future. My only form of protest at the moment is to avoid all USA products - this is why I have left Facebook and joined Mastodon yesterday. Europe must be stronger.
@randahl as a Canadian, I feel the same. I grew up feeling that the US was a friendly next door neighbour-another branch of the same family. Now I feel such intense animosity, I’m not sure I could ever cross that border again.
@randahl Yup. USA used to be the de facto leader of “the Western World”, whatever that was supposed to mean and whatever you thought of it. It isn’t anymore. That’s how great MAGA made America again.
@randahl Canada has gone through a similar transformation. It started with talks of annexation and 51st state rhetoric a year ago.
Now their politicians are actively calling for the province of Alberta to break off and join the US.
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/01/23/u-s-bessent-weighs-alberta-separatism/
Similar vibes in Canada. The 200+ year partnership is dead, shattered in what felt like minutes.
@randahl The venal kleptocracy behind Trump is today exerting influence around the world, Trump is but a figurehead. Until people realise that this is about regular people versus the top 0.1% and their enablers, things will not get better. In the U.K. and US, both mainstream parties have been captured by corporate and / or Zionist paymasters, which disenfranchises voters. It’s unsurprising 1/3 of people (much more actually) don’t vote.
@randahl Much like the situation in Russia, many citizens remain unaware of the profound damage their leadership is inflicting on the world – both in terms of tangible destruction and the lasting stain on global perception. These are wounds that will take decades to heal.
Germans, in particular, may still recall the weight of such a legacy, having faced the harsh reality of being held accountable for the actions of their ancestors.
@randahl This is s healthy step in recovery.
@randahl We have abandoned so much for this maniac but nothing so valuable as the connections you describe. I apologize for the clumsy, chaotic threat we have become and hope we can be a part of something better in the future.
@randahl You can’t trust Trump- EVER- no one should
@randahl Russia delivered Europe and the nazi camps, not the USA. USA wanted to administrate France after the D-Day. De Gaulle took them by surprise re organising the territory into departments. Since, USA lies about WW2. It's time to remember the true history. I'm french and i'm soooo sad to consider it that way.
It's not just Denmark — it's all of Western Europe!
Trump has torn the USA out of modern Western societies(a fact that's been clear since March 2025).
The USA _was_ the heart of modern Western societies.
This vacuum has yet to be filled; I have absolutely no idea where we are heading.
Even if Trump dies within the next year and if Vance blows up the rest and MAGA implodes, everything that happened last year — and is still ongoing — will shape the next decades.
This is a fact I am fully aware of, and it will shape the rest of my life...
@randahl I appreciate the comments in this thread. It solidifies, even if only anecdotally, the on-the-ground anger that I wasn't sure that Europeans were feeling. As they should. I just wish the leaders would act and isolate the disease following Mark Carney's sober assessment.
Some of us knew everything was over the night of the election (and before it, if this unthinkable present came true). European leaders should have known it too. I hope for the world they're at that point now.
@randahl Do you support The Imagine project?
@randahl There are a few people in Denmark who still believe USA is our closest ally, those people are all found on Christiansborg.
Democracies in the West should work as 'universal healthcare' works. Back in the 40's Germany got sick and all chipped in to cure it from the disease. This time it's the US that needs help.
New technologies allow for mutations of the virus to spread.
What we really need for the long term is a vaccine.
@randahl This wasn’t a misunderstanding — it was a break in trust. For decades, Denmark’s relationship with the U.S. was rooted in gratitude, shared history, and respect. When sovereignty is spoken of lightly, it reopens old wounds and turns admiration into anger.
Trust between nations, like between people, depends on respect. Once that is publicly questioned, the damage doesn’t fade quickly — and it isn’t easily forgotten
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