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Trump again insists the US ‘needs’ to take over Greenland for national security: ‘We’ll have to work it all out’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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It's working. Most Americans are just that dim..
Or single issue voters… feels like he’s thinning the herd.
Oil,that's what he means by national security. Dear Americans please get rid of that cancer you call potus. General strikes is what you can do.
TBF, he also means strategic expansionism. (The Arctic is playing an ever greater role in geopolitics, as the ice melts)
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This is not just Trump at this point. No American is standing up for their ally Denmark. This is disgusting and involves all Americans. Stop buying their shitty weapons.
Stop buying all their products.
You wouldn't buy a can of beans grown and packed by the Nazis, or firewall security software from Russia. I actively stopped buying any American products in the store when I Trump won both times.
Fuck tyrants.
No American is standing up for their ally Denmark. This is disgusting and involves all Americans.
What? This very much does not involve all Americans.
Most Americans despise this asshole and have no interest in invading Greenland, and plenty see it as a horrific betrayal.
Show me one American politician who is standing up for Denmark and Greenland right now
TBF most Americans couldn't find Denmark.
Real shame considering Denmark spend 19 years with the US in Afghanistan and lost 44 soldiers..
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IMHO saying "this involves all Americans" is valid, and not an attack against every single one.
My conspiracy theory with this Greenland thing: Those in power now are deliberately destroying the world so it can be "rebuilt the right way". Greenland is in a position on the globe to become quite a pleasant climate. Once the ice melts it will be one of the best places on earth to live. Not to mention the huge amount of natural resources that will become available. Its also currently a politically isolated area, so when WW3 wipes out half the population it will most likely remain untouched. (Though tbf if trump makes moves on it that wont be the case). I don't think the current admin is even really aware of why Greenland is important, save for a few people who implemented project 2025.
removes foil hat
to add: when the polar ice caps melt it will be positioned directly in a newly available shipping route
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No means no, Donald.
"That's not what my dad taught me"
"That's what she said, and I still fucked her" - Pedo Trump
Taco!
As an anti-war person, I will fight for Greenland’s autonomy.
Tiel has been pushing chat control on europe and Denmark is the forefront of making it happen. Is the greenland and chat control situation connected? Sure seems like the perfect timing. Threaten to take greenland unless pushing through laws that are universally hated by the people (which makes absolutely no sense in europe because the government and the people are supposed to be one and the same and where we generally only let insane laws pass when the US threatens sanctions which is technically not even possible on a single european country as the union is a trade union lol - but soft power, i guess).
*Thiel.
No, I don't think it's connected, beyond the obvious: MAGA having a boner for both Greenland and the EU. Greenland has Oil btw. And will become ever more important geopolitically as the ice keeps on melting.
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He also claimed the US was there 300 years ago. "We were there with boats too I'm sure." (Refrencing Greenland) Piped Reuters
I’d truly love to see him try to do this or Canada simply because I don’t know anyone in the military that would follow those orders and I’m around a bunch of higher ranking ones. Pretty sure this would push him to impeachment. One can hope.
Are those the same guys that were going to stop him from deploying the national guard within the US, or the guys that wouldn't ever pirate vessels, or fire missiles at fisherman and watch them drown?
But yeah, I'm sure we will see some integrity from US military leadership any day now.
It's never happened yet, but any day now the US military is going to become ethical and do the right thing instead of following orders.
Tbh I’ll believe it when I see it.
I genuine hope I’m being overly pessimistic. But in a situation like this, nobody should plan for some deus ex machine bullshit to swoop in and make everything all better. We’re very far down a road that we cannot go back up. This will take a generation to revert and restore, at least. Likely several.
No thank you. I def don't want to rely on the US Army to do the right thing
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As a Canadian I really do not want to see him try that
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Or, hear me out, we leave Greenland alone and mend ties with Denmark who has been a steadfast ally for decades.
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Threatening to annex a country to coerce them into giving away mineral rights
Art of the Deeeaaalllllll
scumbag
Ah, more attempts to distract from the Epstein Files it seems
Man has no actual intention to do anything to Greenland.
Stop downplaying his direct threats on another nation's sovereignty. He has the motive and the means to do it. It's a very real threat and ignoring it is dangerous.
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Please stop doing his PR for him. Is it just like he didn't really have an actual intention to deploy ICE as blackshirts? Is it like how he wasn't really going to gut government agencies under the flimsiest excuse of "DOGE"? Is it like how he wasn't going to go completely absurd with tariffs? Is it just like he wasn't going to begin sinking ships, pirating oil tankers, and starting wars with nearby countries?
Just because the guy is so incompetent his letting you see his cards before he has played them doesn't mean he does not intend on playing them. It is signalling to Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia not only that he has them but that he will play them. This all comes from initiatives from people like the Heritage Foundation's Luke Coffey colliding and merging with all the other agendas he sees himself benefiting from that have foreign powers freely buying his influence and pushing him towards this change in world order.
When China invades Taiwan, when Russia begins invading other countries besides Ukraine, it is very likely the Trump administration will use this as an excuse to try to "protect" strategic interests like Canada and Greenland, which will just be the US moving in their military influence into the bases already present on their soil and then sprawling out to whatever "strategic" assets they need to "secure", while also trying to pressure their governments into a deal like Ukraine's. When they don't cooperate, they will call up on their new "allies" to manufacture pressure for them while they are preoccupied trying to keep the US military locked down, likely through "Trump daddy" Mark Rutte led NATO.
No amount of denial has ever kept wars from happening in the past.
Canada understands the threat, thus the boycott of all things USian and call for 300,000 civilian military.
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I wouldn't be so certain. He's weird. And someone is probably telling him he could name it Trumpland.
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