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That can all be true, but this is still posturing and they haven't yet broken any laws.

by XorNot 2mo ago

black_puppydog 2mo ago
The article reads like the act of landing the drilling equipment in Greenland was in itself illegal. Not the same as drilling, and ofc IANAL, but still...
- watwut 2mo ago
  Whenever conservatives, far right or large businesses clearly and openly plan something unethical or illegal or plain damaging, everyone else has a duty to pretend they dont see it. We must extend infinite amounts of benefits of the doubt, even at the price of making ourself look like dumb. (Or course, no benefit of doubt is extend to their opposition.) Or something.
  - gwerbin 2mo ago
    And now in 2026 with NSPM-7 anyone who speaks up against literally anything the US does, can get put on a domestic terrorist list, which sets them up to be punished extrajudicially such as being de-banked. And then if the administration gets their way such individuals will be stripped of citizenship, detained in a concentration camp for a while because contractors make money off of that, and then eventually deported to some unknown place.
bigbadfeline 2mo ago
> That can all be true, but this is still posturing and they haven't yet broken any laws. Posturing is to say that "they haven't yet broken any laws". Transferring equipment to a place for which the company had no permit is breaking the law. Once again, this is what happened and it's an act of breaking the law - both formally and substantively: Quote from the OP: That has prompted Greenland’s government to issue a “strong warning” that no approval had been granted to land the kit.
pvaldes 2mo ago
They are deliberately lying to US investors to persuade them to purchase or take sale decisions on the basis of false information. This falls directly in the category of "Security fraud / Stock Fraud", that is a crime prosecuted by The United States Securities and Exchange Commission if I'm not wrong.
- jacquesm 2mo ago
  It used to be, anyway.
hardbass 2mo ago
I believe it is also completely legal for Greenland to plant high yield weaponry and ordnance pointed to the site of the American company's operations. I could be wrong.

That can all be true, but this is still posturing and they haven't yet broken any laws.

by XorNot 2mo ago

That can all be true, but this is still posturing and they haven't yet broken any laws.

The article reads like the act of landing the drilling equipment in Greenland was in itself illegal. Not the same as drilling, and ofc IANAL, but still...

watwut 2mo ago
Whenever conservatives, far right or large businesses clearly and openly plan something unethical or illegal or plain damaging, everyone else has a duty to pretend they dont see it. We must extend infinite amounts of benefits of the doubt, even at the price of making ourself look like dumb. (Or course, no benefit of doubt is extend to their opposition.) Or something.
- gwerbin 2mo ago
  And now in 2026 with NSPM-7 anyone who speaks up against literally anything the US does, can get put on a domestic terrorist list, which sets them up to be punished extrajudicially such as being de-banked. And then if the administration gets their way such individuals will be stripped of citizenship, detained in a concentration camp for a while because contractors make money off of that, and then eventually deported to some unknown place.

bigbadfeline 2mo ago

> That can all be true, but this is still posturing and they haven't yet broken any laws. Posturing is to say that "they haven't yet broken any laws". Transferring equipment to a place for which the company had no permit is breaking the law. Once again, this is what happened and it's an act of breaking the law - both formally and substantively: Quote from the OP: That has prompted Greenland’s government to issue a “strong warning” that no approval had been granted to land the kit.

pvaldes 2mo ago

They are deliberately lying to US investors to persuade them to purchase or take sale decisions on the basis of false information. This falls directly in the category of "Security fraud / Stock Fraud", that is a crime prosecuted by The United States Securities and Exchange Commission if I'm not wrong.

jacquesm 2mo ago
It used to be, anyway.

hardbass 2mo ago

I believe it is also completely legal for Greenland to plant high yield weaponry and ordnance pointed to the site of the American company's operations. I could be wrong.