{"id":14112,"date":"2026-01-18T07:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russia-openly-mocks-europe-over-trump-tariff-threat-dont-provoke-your-daddy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:25:26","slug":"russia-openly-mocks-europe-over-trump-tariff-threat-dont-provoke-your-daddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russia-openly-mocks-europe-over-trump-tariff-threat-dont-provoke-your-daddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia openly mocks Europe over Trump tariff threat: \u2018Don\u2019t provoke your daddy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Russia has openly taken potshots at European nations after US President Donald Trump &nbsp;threatened a 10 per cent tariff on European nations that opposed its Greenland takeover plan. Openly mocking Europe, Russian presidential envoy and head of the Russian Direct &nbsp;Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, said the EU &nbsp;should not &ldquo;provoke their daddy.&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump slaps 10% tariffs on the UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Finland, Netherlands, and Norway over their &lsquo;dangerous game&rsquo; of sending military to Greenland,&rdquo; Dmitriev wrote on US social media company X. He added that the tariffs amount to &ldquo;about 1% per &nbsp;soldier sent to Greenland.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Dmitriev&rsquo;s response is also in reference to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte addressing Trump as &ldquo;daddy&rdquo; during a NATO summit last year. &nbsp;Rutte&rsquo;s remark happened when Trump was asked about the profanity he used a day earlier to chastise both Israel and Iran for violating a recently brokered ceasefire, and his comparing them to unruly children. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve had a big fight, like two kids in a school yard. They fight like hell, you can&rsquo;t stop them. Let them fight for about two, three minutes, then it&rsquo;s easier to stop them,&rdquo; Trump said. To this, Rutte had added: &ldquo;Daddy has to sometimes use strong language.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Dmitriev&rsquo;s remark also comes as EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas said &ldquo;China and Russia must be having a field day&rdquo; on Trump&rsquo;s tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Experts opine that Trump&rsquo;s pursuit of Greenland is creating a rift between the US and other NATO allies, fracturing the alliance and &ldquo;playing straight into Russia&rsquo;s hands. Trump&rsquo;s refusal to rule out a military takeover helps Putin achieve his longtime aim of weakening Western alliances. &ldquo;Putin wants a weaker NATO,&rdquo; said a second European government official. &ldquo;Trump is giving it to him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to Jean-Fran&ccedil;ois B&eacute;langer, assistant professor at the Institute for Military Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College, Trump is fracturing the alliance at a time where it needs to show a unitary face. We are already seeing expectations of a renewed Russian operation in Ukraine. Russia sees this as a proper time to ramp up the hurt on Ukraine. This also comes suspiciously when all the European countries are turning their attention to Greenland,&rdquo; Belanger said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>Russia openly mocks Europe over Trump tariff threat: &lsquo;Don&rsquo;t provoke your daddy&rsquo;<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has openly taken potshots at European nations after US President Donald Trump &nbsp;threatened a 10 per cent tariff on European nations that opposed its Greenland takeover plan. Openly mocking Europe, Russian presidential envoy and head of the Russian Direct &nbsp;Investment Fund, Kirill Dmitriev, said the EU &nbsp;should not &ldquo;provoke their daddy.&rdquo; &nbsp; &ldquo;Trump slaps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russia-openly-mocks-europe-over-trump-tariff-threat-dont-provoke-your-daddy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Russia openly mocks Europe over Trump tariff threat: \u2018Don\u2019t provoke your daddy\u2019&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}