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Resisting Trump

 January 25, 2026 by daryan12, https://daryanenergyblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/resisting-trump/

So, only after Trump started threatening to annex Greenland, did it suddenly occurred to European leaders that maybe appeasing a fascist, wasn’t the smartest decision. Who could have known!….aside from anyone whose studied history since the 1930’s. Hell I’m half expecting Starmer to come back from his latest ass-kissing session meeting with Trump brandishing a piece of paper promising peace in our time.

Clearly the EU and the UK need to be both more united on this topic and more forceful. Appeasing fascists will only ever make them more aggressive and means they will demand more and more, until they demand too much. Europe’s capitulation to Trump over tariffs last year, their failure to criticise his ICE crackdowns, the murder of supposed drug smugglers without due process, Israel’s genocide or his actions in Venezuela were all seen by the white house as signs of weakness, or de-facto approval. Which emboldened him to make further demands regarding Greenland. By contrast, those nation’s who have stood up to Trump, such as Canada, Brazil, China or Mexico, have gotten by more favourably.

Yes Trump has gone on epic 2am twitter tirades and threatened them with this and that. But eventually TACO Trump has prevailed. This needs to be the strategy from now on.

So for example, Trump has said he’s not happy about the Chagos Islands agreement, which btw was originally negotiated by the Tories not Starmer (although labour took things further). Oh and Trump had originally said he was okay with this deal. Well if I was Starmer I’d tell him, fine we’ll just hand back the Islands to Mauritius anyway, you can take it up with them if you want to keep your airbase there. Now being an idiot he’d probably respond by trying to annex Diego Garcia, but that would just put the US in the same legal mess the UK is currently in, so all of those court cases will relocate from London to DC.

There’s also the small matter of refugees. You see a number of refugees have made it to the Islands (often from places like Myanmar, Sri Lanka, India, Somali, etc.). They often have quite compelling cases for asylum making returning them legally difficult, quite apart from the fact that the other governments don’t want them back (as they are viewed as trouble makers). Plus many of those government’s are backed by either China or India, so good luck trying to threat them with tariffs. In fact the UK has been ultimately forced to accept these refugees transfer to the UK (which as you can imagine isn’t going down well with the bigot brigade).

In short, if America took control of the Chagos Island’s they’d quickly become a magnet for refugees across the Indian ocean, as anyone who can make it to the Islands is pretty much guaranteed a free trip state side (and you can imagine how MAGA are going to feel about that). Trump would soon be left with little choice but to go cap in hand to Mauritius and either pay them an absurd amount of money, or accept terms less favourable than Starmer’s current deal (assuming China doesn’t make them a better offer and he loses one of their most strategic outposts to Beijing). Either way, the response to Trump’s bluster will be to make him look weak and foolish and that’s means he’ll learn to bite his tongue in future.

Another option would be to go after Trump’s personal finances. For example, take away his UK golf courses. What’s that you say, the government can’t just take private property off someone. Actually in this case they can. Turnberry is an ex-RAF airfield. So it would be perfectly reasonable for the government to say, well because some dickhead is threatening Greenland, we need the land back, sorry. If you really want to grind his gears, say you’ll be renaming the new airbase after Obama. His other golf course is a sight of special scientific interest, so a ban on golfing activity (or manicuring all of those lawns) would be well within the government’s remint. Either way, the message to Trump is, mess with us, we will go after to you personally.

And trump plus his family are up to all sorts of illegal corrupt activities. Why is this not being investigated by the UK police and Europol? Starting an investigation to reign in the corruption of the Trump regime is unfortunately going to be necessary, given that the broken US justice system (which now stands for Just Us), means Europe’s going to have to step up. Not least because of the geopolitical implications. E.g. Trump’s “board of Peace” is clearly intended to work as some sort of sleazy slush fund for the Trump family, despots and oligarch’s to trade favour’s for cash. That has too be reigned in. And again, if Europe doesn’t offer push back, the White house will view that as a sign of weakness, if not silent support.

Others have highlighted other methods, such as an export ban of semiconductor lithography machines from ASML holdings. This is a Dutch company that leads the world in microchip manufacture. Its estimated that for any other country to match their technology would take a decade or two. Which means such a ban on the US would intermediately burst the AI bubble and devastate both Trump’s personal finances but also the tech bro’s who prop him up. Similarly, stricter regulation of crypto and AI by the EU would have serious financial consequences for Trump and his supporters.

Then there’s the matter of the 2026 world cup and the 2028 Olympics and boycotting these events. Not merely to emasculate Trump, but also his minion the FIFA boss Infantino. Quite apart for the risk to fans from ICE (as well as showing support to those Americans under attack from ICE). However, to be effective it will require getting other parties on board, the European teams, Brazil, Columbia, Iran, Uruguay, South Africa, etc. Yes, this means the teams that stay in will have an easier time, in fact it would pretty much guarantee a Argentinian victory. But it will be a hollow victory. And there’s nothing to stop the boycotting teams going somewhere else in the world with lots of football stadiums (such as, oh…how about Europe!) and having their own invitation tournament. This will humiliate Trump, and he will be anxious to avoid similar humiliation with the Olympics, which gives us leverage.

Perhaps more importantly is it shows the need for greater UK and EU co-operation. Brexit was the brainchild for American / Russian oligarch’s and fascists who saw benefits in weakening Europe. Recognising that and undoing the damage it has caused is now a vial step in countering fascism and oligarchy.

January 27, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized