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Trump weighs using U.S. military to acquire Greenland: White House

34 points by belter 9mo ago

msie 9mo ago
All we need are some brave GOP senators to step in and stop this action!
- viraptor 9mo ago
  Time for Americans to call every one of their representatives... continuously.
xenospn 9mo ago
And just like they did in WWII, most European countries will not put up any resistance and let Trump steamroll all over them.
- 0928374082 9mo ago
  Just because Trump's own countrymen let him steamroll them, why do you think Europeans would? Here is a recent picture, taken during discussions about Greenland: https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-4a67-a869-c1e6ce16fcd8/frankreich-daenemark-praesident-macron-premierministerin-frederiksen-ostsee-unterwasserkabel-beschaedigungen-100-1920x1080.jpg https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-... You probably recognise the woman on the left, the PM of Denmark. You may not recognise the dude on the right, but he comes from a country that gave us the motto which vocally expresses the solidarity he is physically expressing in the pic: "all for one, and one for all" If we may talk brass tacks, he also has several boomers that could lob a bus or a few at the new White House ballroom. Half an hour flight time if they didn't bother to leave their home base; shorter than that if they fired from somewhere in the Atlantic: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170705083720-04-emmanuel-macron-submarine.jpg https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/17070508372... https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2026/01/06/joint-statement-on-greenland https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2026/01/06/joint-st...
java-man 9mo ago
Ukraine and Taiwan are next.
belter 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
treetalker 9mo ago
US–Denmark Treaty of the Danish West Indies: > During 1916, the two sides agreed to a sale price of $25,000,000, and the United States accepted a Danish demand for a declaration stating that they would "not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indi...

34 points by belter 9mo ago

msie 9mo ago

All we need are some brave GOP senators to step in and stop this action!

viraptor 9mo ago
Time for Americans to call every one of their representatives... continuously.

xenospn 9mo ago

And just like they did in WWII, most European countries will not put up any resistance and let Trump steamroll all over them.

0928374082 9mo ago
Just because Trump's own countrymen let him steamroll them, why do you think Europeans would? Here is a recent picture, taken during discussions about Greenland: https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-4a67-a869-c1e6ce16fcd8/frankreich-daenemark-praesident-macron-premierministerin-frederiksen-ostsee-unterwasserkabel-beschaedigungen-100-1920x1080.jpg https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-... You probably recognise the woman on the left, the PM of Denmark. You may not recognise the dude on the right, but he comes from a country that gave us the motto which vocally expresses the solidarity he is physically expressing in the pic: "all for one, and one for all" If we may talk brass tacks, he also has several boomers that could lob a bus or a few at the new White House ballroom. Half an hour flight time if they didn't bother to leave their home base; shorter than that if they fired from somewhere in the Atlantic: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/170705083720-04-emmanuel-macron-submarine.jpg https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/17070508372... https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2026/01/06/joint-statement-on-greenland https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2026/01/06/joint-st...

java-man 9mo ago

Ukraine and Taiwan are next.

belter 9mo ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

treetalker 9mo ago

US–Denmark Treaty of the Danish West Indies: > During 1916, the two sides agreed to a sale price of $25,000,000, and the United States accepted a Danish demand for a declaration stating that they would "not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indi...