Wasn’t this last week’s news?
So, if it reopens, here’s a longterm-scenario: suppose US and Canada both split into oceanic versus central, meanwhile Russia is weakened and blocked from europe, but these fossil-fuelled conservative autocratic mid-continentals want to forge a new empire across the arctic, where’s their strategic hub half-way between Texas and Muscovy - Greenland of course !
( Prefer a simpler explanation? - maybe it’s just punishment for sending F16s to Ukraine, hey you might need those ? )I was hoping Biden would send every gun, bullet, bomb and vehicle to Ukraine, to take the teeth out of Trump’s threats for a couple years at least. Obviously that wasn’t going to happen, but it was a nice thing to think.
Sounds like it is truly time to station troops in Greenland to defend against the US. The issue will need to be forced, so Drumpf either backs down, or crosses the line into hostility so the world will wake up from its denial of the danger.
No, Greenland is in the Nato. When the US attacks then half of the us army will be on the offence, the other half on the defence to keep the us army out.
Go and fuck yourself, Mr. Trump.
You see Putin needs to control the NATO base there
Fuck the US, it’s time to stand together as Europeans
As a US citizen, I approve of this position. Fuck this place.
Wouldn’t any tariff on Denmark specifically be met with counter-tariffs by the EU?
Last time it was targeted to specific red state exports like Kentucky whiskey too.
As an American, honestly just take us back under control, we fucked the whole thing up, we couldn’t do it.
Never shoulda wasted good tea in the Boston harbour
… As an American post tea incident, I never developed a taste for it.
It’s good hot, with milk in it, and some oatmeal cookies for yo dippins
It’s been a fun trial, but it’s time to give the controls back to the grownups
Grim though this may be—once Greenland’s conquered, it can’t be long before Denmark is taken over by Tesco.
“It was horrendous,” said one of the people. Another added: “He was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious, and potentially very dangerous.”
Maybe don’t link an article with a paywall. thanks.
Try „mirror”.
Either learn to bypass them, read the comments to find someone who has, or consume only the free, heavily biased rage-bait media
None of these options include telling people not to post real journalism
They should just hang up on him. Stop allowing him to take center stage
Put them on hold for half an hour with the lady saying that the call is very important to them.
Greenland, home to just 57,000 people, is an entry point to new shipping routes gradually opening up through the Arctic; it also boasts abundant but hard to access minerals.
Am I reading it wrong or is “gradually opening up through the arctic” a euphemism for climate crisis effects?
It’s exactly that. Carriers can’t wait for the arctic to thaw, it is a much shorter and quicker route between the hemishperes. China has been sending containerships through there for a while now.
China has also been buying up land and small harbors to expand in Scandinavia.
Trump should rather talk to Múte Egede the prime minister of Greenland 🤷♂️
This is Trump’s Poland?
That’s pathetic.
Things are getting ugly really quick
The Farce Reich will never conquer Greenland.
Do you want to put money on that? Because I wouldn’t.
Trump is crazy enough to do it - or rather the Project 2025 sumbitches who are remote-controlling him in the background, because he sure as hell ain’t the one coming up with all those executive orders he’s signing.
And while the whole world would scream and shout in outrage, nobody would be able to do a damn thing about it.
Do you imagine the amount of backlash that would cause?
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I couldn’t disagree more.
As the orange myna bird rethoric escalates, so does the willingness of other actors to bite back.
Having a nazi as a focus point of all the frustration and hatred is a good way to shift attention from internal issues.
Nobody really wants to be called to pick up arms but the US don’t have the monopoly of war in the world.
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Just as much as the US pulling out of the WHO, ordering other nations to up their military spendings, threatening other nations with insane tariffs, threatening to invade or annex them or dropping military support unexpectedly: not very much…
Just as much:
as the US pulling out of the WHO
To the degree of what I know, the WHO is not a mandatory organization to which countries are bound to.
It is benefitial to adhere to it but…
ordering other nations to up their military spendings
All nations vinculated by the NATO treaty have agreed to invest, yearly, a given percentage of their budget towards defence. Something most didn’t do it… hate to admit it but the guy had a point to pick there
threatening other nations with insane tariffs
Economic warfare is poised to wreck the US economy faster. The consumerist culture is too strong.
threatening to invade or annex them
Everyone us trembling in fear. More about to foam at the mouth of rage.
dropping military support unexpectedly
Hardly anything coming from that mouth is unexpected.
He can try, but that would be an attack on the rest of NATO and it would definitely grab the attention of Russia and China that don’t want the US monopolizing the Arctic. And there’s nothing that puts all existing grievances on pause like a nazi lunatic doing land grabs.
Imagine what kind of scumbag you have to be to even follow the order to invade a place like that? They don’t even enter our lexicon most of the time. This is purely imperialism and blatantly so. In this century, to follow orders to invade like that is lunacy, cowardice, and ignorance all in one.
Lol, Russia wants him to do this. Both to foment discontent and to alter the Arctic shipping routes.
You are forgetting that Russia and the US already have territorial conflicts in the Artic, because both claim most of the sea for themselves, and that neither country wants the oil reserves in the hands of the other.
If Trump controlled Canada and Greenland it would bolster the US claim and make it viable for the US to enforce it.
As for China, they benefit from a trade route being divided between several countries, as it’s more likely that the international community will end up pressuring Canada to accept an international strait regime if the entire sea is not in the hands of the US.
If there’s an invasion NATO will have to intervene. No choice. And it’s they don’t it’s WW3 for sure. Because all the structure that keep a relative peace will fall down.
I am no expert in the exact NATO regulation, but I think in a recent spat between Greece and Türkiye NATO said that inter-NATO fights do not trigger any mandatory aid from other NATO members.
Ooof… That’s not good.
The UK would probably broker the deal behind the scenes, in public professing calm but, behind closed doors, putting pressure on Denmark to accept and buttering Trump up to compensate them generously for it. Outside the EU, Britain is weak except for its NATO membership, and that won’t be of any help here, so it’s in Britain’s interest that this is resolved as smoothly as possible, and that they remain in Trump’s good books.
“I AM YELLING AND OBNOXIOUS THEREFORE I AM A STRONG MAN WITH REGULAR SIZED HANDS. LARGE HANDS, EVEN.”
