Trump compared to ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ amid Greenland row at Davos by Belgian PM

9 months ago by bossito to c/belgium

Bart De Wever warned Europe at Davos to stop appeasing Donald Trump, comparing his Greenland rhetoric to 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'

resipsaloquitur 6 points 9 months ago

Can we just give him another reality show and make him go away?

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Honytawk 5 points 9 months ago

Like a truman show where he gets to be dictator of a fake country, and everything gets filmed for entertainment.

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resipsaloquitur 3 points 9 months ago

Win-win, I’d say.

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Spacehooks 1 point 9 months ago

Do it all at maro largo. And he'll never eant to leave. Keep printing out fake reports and actors to be i. The room. He wont read it and fall asleep anyway.

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lemmy_outta_here 5 points 9 months ago

I can't wait to see what kind of beautiful Schmetterling he becomes!

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ArcaneGadget 4 points 9 months ago

Hopefully we can avoid the "7 nuclear missiles" -part...

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Honytawk 4 points 9 months ago

I don't really like De Wevers policies, he is too much economical right for me.

But damn it if I don't respect him as a politician.

He refused to work together with the fascist party called Vlaams Belang, even if his party was second in place to be the most right wing party in the country. Would even rather work together with socialists than the extreme right. Even LGBTQ+ rights are non-negotiable to him.

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benvars 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, i'm generally not a fan of him, but i agree.

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Mysteriarch 1 point 9 months ago

The interests he's defending internationally are the same he's defending nationally (an regionally) - so I wouldn't cheer too much.

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Maeve 3 points 9 months ago

“My feeling is that the sweet-talking is over. You reach the point where sweet-talking and sweet-talking is counterproductive,” De Wever said. “It only encourages them to go a step further – it’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”

Cute. No politician has actually said Hitler -Chamberlain.

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myrmidex 2 points 9 months ago

All those expensive new planes rendered ineffective with one snarky comment.

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bossito 2 points 9 months ago

As a main holder of US bonds Belgium can also make the dollar worthless.. it's a lose-lose game of course, but we won't go down alone.

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