this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
1 points (100.0% liked)

News Summary

56 readers
161 users here now

News feed with AI summary.

Rules:

  1. follow instance rules
  2. Engage in good faith discussion
  3. All posts must be tagged either [Meta] or [Request]
  1. Congratulations your behavior is now a new rule

founded 1 week ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
1
Germany leader: All countries must respect existing borders, in rebuttal of Trump (abcnews.go.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
1 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Author: Unknown
Published on: 08/01/2025 | 15:38:49

AI Summary:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says principle of inviolability of borders applies to every country. Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland. Scholz spoke with several European leaders, whom he didn't name. He said it was a longstanding central principle that "borders must not be moved by force" he said it is a key part of what we call Western values.

Original: 378 words
Summary: 79 words
Percent reduction: 79.10%

I'm a bot and I'm open source

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Here's the problem that I'm seeing... Everyone keeps saying that we need to respect existing borders and shouldn't be trying to take land from other countries. Which makes sense. The problem is, with the situation between Israel and Gaza along with Russia and Ukraine is that we have also shown that there are virtually no consequences besides words and sanctions. I'm sure the sanctions actually do something behind closed doors that we can't see, but it's like getting a parking ticket for 1st degree murder, albeit an expensive ticket. And with Israel the consequences are literally nothing.

I'm sure it would be different if the US actually did something to try and take Greenland and the Panama Canal, but what would actually happen when it comes to consequences? I'm genuinely curious because so far I have no frame of reference for what the consequences could potentially be.