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Trump renewed calls for the US to annex Greenland for "national security" reasons during an Oval Office briefing, claiming "I think it will happen."

Greenland's outgoing Prime Minister Múte Egede responded on Facebook: "Enough is enough," and planned to summon all Greenland's political parties for a joint rejection.

Likely incoming Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen also called Trump's statement "inappropriate."

Trump also undermined Denmark's claim to Greenland, saying it was "very far away and really has nothing to do" with the island.

Danish Defense Committee Chairman Rasmus Jarlov warned that US annexation "would mean war between two NATO countries."

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

For what "national security reasons"? I'd like him to elaborate. Is Greenland somehow threatening the US? the only country threatening other countries in the area is the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I'd like Trump, Musk and the whole republican party to go fuck themselves. For national security reasons.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I imagine it's to put defences in the Arctic....

But if Putin and Russia are fantastic and great people why does America need to guard the Arctic?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

For those evil Norwegians, they might try to spread universal Healthcare!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago

It's the same playbook used by Putin with Ukraine

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

He has americans convinced that they need to annex greenland to protect them from Russia and China. For some reason they think China is closer to greenland than to Hawaii …

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

But Trump loves Russia, aren't they great? Why would they ever be a threat?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know a single American that believes what you just said. Most of us recognize this as bullshit.

Note: I'm not in a deep red state

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't think that most republicans believe they need Greenland for security reasons, but so what? They might as well, or it would be better if they did at least believe this, because the person they voted for and are still supporting is acting like a lunatic. And they are cheering him on, or at least condoning it.

I do believe that that plenty of republicans like Trump threatening former allies like a big and strong ~~businessman~~/mob boss would do. The same goes for those who think they should grab Greenland for the resources, or just because they can.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Let me guess, natural resources.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (5 children)

Also strategic control of the melting and ever more passable Arctic, along with Russia. This also partly explains why Trump wants Canada.

Google Earth screenshot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, but I thought climate change wasn't real.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Not to detract, but I never noticed how phallic Sweden and Norway looked from that angle

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

Looks like newer euro coins include Norway, but that wasn't always the case, leading to this unfortunate creation:

[–] [email protected] 58 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

A sane president who values geopolitical allies would just work out a deal with the host country to install more military bases in the region of concern, rather than burning every partnership we have by being aggressively expansionist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

rather than burning every partnership we have by being aggressively expansionist.

This shit is so insanely dumb and short-sighted. But not surprising given his business "acumen."

This is literally the only thing he knows.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 14 hours ago

The US already has that agreement!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

A sane president who values geopolitical allies would just work out a deal with the host country to install more military bases in the region of concern, rather than burning every partnership we have by being aggressively expansionist.

Dismissing it as insanity undermines the culpability of what Trump is doing.

The point isn't whatever 'national security!' bullshit they're putching it as, the point is to piss of Greenland to the point of severing our relationship with them. Same with the shit he's doing to Canada, Panama, etc.

Trump's goal is to weaken the US, and he's accomplishing that in part by cutting us off from our allies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago

But an insane president will bluster about things he doesn't want to actually do (like Canada and Greenland) as a distraction to keep us focused on this nonsense while he raids the government coffers for all the retirement money he can get his grubbly diseased hands on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I'm betting he wants to charge fees for ships traversing the northwest passage, and he wants that revenue to go to the US, not Canada or Greenland/Denmark.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

They already have strategic control over Greenland. Denmark would let the USA do almost whatever they want on greenland.

Denmark probably were the USAs biggests bitch in Europe until they started threatening Greenlands sovereignity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Just another case of Trump apparently not understanding that you can be powerful in other ways than bullying and threatening people, and often more powerful. Or it's all in the service of furthering Putin's agenda and weakening the West. Or both.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

If anything it's cause for national insecurity, given that if they invade, per NATO rules, an attack on one is an attack on all.

But Trump is used to getting what he wants by breaking the rules and facing no consequences, so I guess it'll be a FAFO thing.

I must admit, I do fear that if it comes to that NATO will fight the usual way - strong worded letter. For a buffoon who can't even read and only responds to a fat stick to the face.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago

This is going to be interesting because Article 5 assumes an attack on a member state by a non-member state.

By attacking Greenland, Trump would violate Articles 1 and 2 (pledging to use peaceful means to settle a dispute and contribute to friendly relations though you could argue he's violating the latter right now).

I think the whole point of this act is to force NATO to kick the US out of NATO, which is exactly what Russia (and by extension Trump) wants.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

The most direct route from Russia to the US is North though the Arctic - so during the cold war there was a lot of first strike detection stuff setup in Arctic areas.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Probably that "economic freedom safe space" thing he's been talking about? The one with no rules to follow so the "hard decisions" "rugged individual" "pat'rats" don't have to put in effort. Isn't Greenland mostly natives? Yeah that's probably it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

Greenland is one of the only (the only?) largely indigenous governed country (ish) in the world and one of its official languages alongside Danish is Greenlandic, an inuit language. So, yea, for some shitty old white American dude to continue to demand annexing this country is some fucking wild bullshit.