Trump wil Groenland #16 Het opengrensbeleid is de schuldige

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Op woensdag 28 januari 2026 20:59 schreef RotatoR het volgende:

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Rubio is weer de voice of reason tussen al die MAGA hysterie. Zo'n beetje de enige competente minister in het Trump kabinet. Zou mooi zijn als hij de Republikeinse presidentskandidaat wordt in 2028.

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Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada


The Trump administration has held covert meetings with fringe separatists from Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta as a rift deepens between Washington and Ottawa.

Leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a group of far-right separatists who want the western province to become independent, met US state department officials in Washington three times since April last year, according to people familiar with the talks.

They are seeking another meeting next month with state and Treasury officials to ask for a $500bn credit facility to help bankroll the province if an independence referendum — yet to be called — is passed.

“The US is extremely enthusiastic about a free and independent Alberta,” Jeff Rath, APP legal counsel, who attended the meetings, told the FT.

He claimed he had a “much stronger relationship” with the Trump administration than Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

A state department spokesperson said: “The department regularly meets with civil society types. As is typical in routine meetings such as these, no commitments were made.”

A White House official said: “Administration officials meet with a number of civil society groups. No such support, or any other commitments, was conveyed.”

A person familiar with Treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s thinking said neither he nor any other Treasury officials were aware of any credit facility proposal and did not intend to engage on the issue. The person added that no senior Treasury department official had received a request for a meeting.

The Treasury declined to comment. A spokesperson for Carney declined to comment.

The contacts coincide with a deterioration in relations between the US and Canada. President Donald Trump and Carney clashed last week after the Canadian premier suggested Washington was creating a “rupture” in the world order.

The US was unlikely to provide any material support to the fringe separatist movement, according to people familiar with the US position. But the conversations underline the tensions between Washington and Carney’s federal government in Ottawa.

Carlo Dade, from the Canada West Foundation, a conservative think-tank in Calgary, described the separatist leaders as “attention seekers”. He added: “The Americans are more than happy to continue to play Canadians off each other.”

Bessent caused a flurry of excitement among Alberta separatists last week when he described the province — the single biggest source of foreign oil in the American market — as “a natural partner for the US”.

“The Albertans are very independent people,” he told rightwing podcaster Jack Posobiec. “[There is a] rumour that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.”

The person familiar with Bessent’s thinking said he neither supported nor opposed Alberta’s independence movement but views Carney as pursuing a personal agenda to the detriment of the province, highlighting his prior work on climate issues.

Bessent believes Alberta could deepen its ties with the US while remaining a Canadian province, the person added.

Carney grew up in Edmonton, Alberta’s capital. The province of 5mn people has had a small independence movement for decades with its roots in Canada’s formation more than 150 years ago.

Ipsos polling conducted last week found approximately three in 10 residents of both Alberta and Quebec would vote for their province to separate from Canada. But unlike Quebec, Alberta’s independence movement has never gained any real traction.

The APP is attempting to gather 177,000 signatures to bring an independence petition to the legislature by May. It declined to say how many it had gathered to date.

The talks will nonetheless stoke existing concerns of meddling in Canadian domestic affairs by the Trump administration and its proxies.

“We’re seeing evidence of foreign interference,” said Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, pointing to social-media ad campaigns, the use of online bots and Maga influencer voices. “It doesn’t feel organic, we are being targeted by the Maga crowd.”

“Alberta is an essential partner in our federation,” said a spokesperson for Canada-US trade minister Dominic LeBlanc. “[The] government is engaged in renewing the Canada-Alberta relationship based on common objectives and respect for each other’s jurisdiction.”

Rath declined to say who the APP spoke to in Washington. “We’re meeting very, very senior people leaving our meetings to go directly to the Oval Office,” he claimed.

The separatist party has adopted similar themes to the UK’s Brexit movement. It accuses Ottawa of squandering billions of dollars in oil revenue and touts conspiracies around Chinese influence, Christian persecution and the “globalists” agenda.

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Rath said his group had also met officials from Quebec’s separatist movement, which has lost independence referendums in 1980 and 1995.

Alberta’s premier Danielle Smith, who last year lowered the threshold for a referendum, opposes independence for the province.

“The overwhelming majority of Albertans are not interested in becoming a US state,” said Smith’s spokesperson.

The Alberta Forever Canada campaign, a counter-petition opposing independence, received 438,568 signatures by a December deadline last year.

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Op woensdag 28 januari 2026 20:59 schreef RotatoR het volgende:

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Rubio is weer de voice of reason tussen al die MAGA hysterie. Zo'n beetje de enige competente minister in het Trump kabinet. Zou mooi zijn als hij de Republikeinse presidentskandidaat wordt in 2028.

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Op donderdag 29 januari 2026 07:08 schreef Momo het volgende:

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Als je Canada niet kan krijgen, dan maar zo?

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Op donderdag 29 januari 2026 11:36 schreef sp3c het volgende:
Mogen ze nu al

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Op donderdag 29 januari 2026 07:08 schreef Momo het volgende:

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Als je Canada niet kan krijgen, dan maar zo?

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Op donderdag 29 januari 2026 11:55 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Canada kennelijk dit soort bewegingen.

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Trump stuurt ‘geweldig ziekenhuisschip’ naar Groenland om ‘vele zieken te verzorgen’
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zegt dat hij een ziekenhuisschip naar Groenland stuurt. Trump zegt dat het schip zieke mensen gaat behandelen die in het uitgestrekte land dat bij Denemarken hoort, wonen. Wat hij daarmee precies bedoelt, is onduidelijk. De Denen geven als reactie een sneer naar het Amerikaanse zorgstelsel.

‘We gaan een geweldig ziekenhuisschip naar Groenland sturen om te zorgen voor de vele mensen die daar ziek zijn en die er niet worden verzorgd’, schrijft Trump in een bericht op zijn onlineplatform Truth Social. ‘Het is onderweg!!!’

Het bericht bevat een ogenschijnlijke AI-afbeelding van de USNS Mercy, een 272 meter lang schip, dat richting besneeuwde bergen aan de horizon vaart. Normaal gesproken is het gestationeerd bij het zuiden van Californië. Het is onduidelijk of dit ook echt het schip is dat Trump naar Groenland stuurt.
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US sailor medically evacuated from nuclear submarine near Greenland: Official

A U.S. Navy sailor was medically evacuated Saturday afternoon from an American nuclear-powered submarine by Danish military forces, according to a U.S. and Danish official.

The submarine broke from its mission and surfaced about eight miles from Nuuk, Greenland, an extraordinary step for a vessel designed to remain hidden beneath the sea in secrecy.

The sailor was airlifted by a Danish Defense Seahawk helicopter, deployed from the Vædderen, a Danish military patrol ship.

It's unclear what the nature of the medical emergency was, but it was not combat-related, according to the U.S. official.

The sailor is being treated at a hospital in Nuuk, Greenland's capital.

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Op zondag 22 februari 2026 13:03 schreef voetbalmanager2 het volgende:

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