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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Then can we join the EU please

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

"buy Greenland" and "invade Mexico"

Geee, I wonder why the difference in acquisition methods. /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

"To increase defense, security and economic cooperation," WTF?!?! The Orange Shit Stain is threatening a trade war with the EU, which includes Denmark, and he wants to bust up NATO. Liar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

What would Russia do?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why is Trump so fixated on Greenland? Nuuk has less than 20,000 residents and the island is only really known for its fishing industry.

Also I'm sure Denmark are part of NATO already so there's already no additional military importance from buying the land.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Well trump wants to exit NATO so there's that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There is potentially an immense amount of rare earth minerals buried under one of the largest supplies of freshwater. And it’s close to the arctic which would make it convenient location for refineries with arctic oil and gas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Resources and climate refuge can't be the major reason. Too long term payoffs.

Military bases threatening Europe or the us depending on control, is only a big deal when considering policies that raise anger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

You’re giving too much credit if you think he thought of it. Others want him to get it for them. He’s old and unhealthy, but a useful stooge in the interim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

People think there is gas and oil under Greenland. And because of global warming it becomes much easier to extract it. Also Trump probably wants be closer to Moscow.

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

It looks bigly huge on a map, and he likes that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It's a very large secluded island that's about to get livable and he's a real estate guy, a bad one but still. He's not playing chess, he's trying to buy land to setup billionaire playlands with zero poors. Don't really want to live in the country filled with poors you just fucked up, that would be insane.

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

The next ICJ announcement is going to be funny

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

It can't be true. There's no way he said that. It has to be a fake message.

Fuck me this guy has lost the god-damned plot and he's not even in office yet.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why do I have a feeling he saw the Mercator version of Greenland and was having size envy and wants it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Maybe he thinks that post climate change it will be valuable real estate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Statistically he's not gonna live the 10 years it'll take, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

He does not have the mental capacity to think that far ahead.

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

This is the real answer

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Somehow that is the first thing that makes sense for his obsession with Greenland.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Can we just build a replica oval office at Mar A Lago and having him play president while someone real just takes over? Fuckkkkk

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

Have him hang out at kid rocks, dude is a psychopath too but his house is a white house replica.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like Elon? Already happening.

[–] piccolo 3 points 1 day ago

Just build a 2nd oval office decoy on mars.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Truth social. So it's Pravda. Straight up propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

It's a direct quote from Trump's account.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And Hitler wanted Poland, France, Russia, and a few others. See what it got him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

A lot of those until the combined effort of Europe, the US and Russia stopped him.

I don't know, but when the coming leader of the nation with the largest military in the world and the second most nukes is throwing wild conquest fantasies around, some about allies, I can't help but get a little bit nervous.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only in a world where you screw over your allies...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It would lead to the breakup of NATO, so guess who's idea this was.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The US annexing Greenland is all it would take? How so? I'm asking because I'm woefully undereducated in these matters. Couldn't we form our own NATO, without the US but with blackjack and universal health care?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Greenland belongs to Denmark. Denmark doesn't want to give it up. So annexing it would constitute an attack of one NATO member on another.

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

Denmark leaves the decision to Greenland's government on who to ally with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Exactly. Also, Europe can and likely will start its own defensive alliance sooner or later. But with the US constituting more than half the military power of NATO right now, that won't amount to much other than keeping the Russians in check.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, so the issue is that NATO, in order to be effective, is very much dependent on the US being in it. Bother.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not really, NATO is a nuclear power and a several times bigger conventional military power than Russia, even without the US.

That said, it would be shit fighting against the US. For everyone involved.

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

It’s an interesting thought exercise - US has the base formerly known as Thule. My father was stationed there decades ago, however according to Wikipedia, it’s part of Space Command now. I can’t imagine that being much of an offensive force, nor being near anything.

Meanwhile Wikipedia lists a Dutch navy detachment splitting time between there and Faroes

Luckily it seems like both would have a difficult time asserting a military option, and any such misadventure would likely be dominated by the weather. It’s hard to believe the residents would approve