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Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out
(eu.usatoday.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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Remove the first flag and it's perfect, imo.
Yeah, the way the text doesn’t center bothers me
Dude. Every greenlander probably knows how to shoot a rifle and survive in polar bear land. This is like Vietnam but with fucking bears and Vikings.
Greenland has an incredibly high proportion of indigenous, so not vikings. It also lacks much foliage at all, much less dense foliage. And it has a relatively tiny population.
That said, a war of raw imperial acquisition would launch the US into a civil war before a soldier set foot on Greenlandic soil i think. And, yes, I recognize that there is a base already there.
Yeah, everyone knows American are collectively against any sort of imperialism.
Greenland has less than 60.000 inhabitants. That will be difficult
Not that I think military pigs are on Lemmy to read this, but only a fucking POS coward would follow those orders. Anyone invading anything on behalf of Emperor Orange is permanently dead to me.
Oh shit I see his logic now he's playing risk he wants the advantage of owning north America. Ugh his toddler logic is clear if you think like a toddler.
USA does not intend to do a good damn thing for people in Greenland.
Oh they'll do a lot for Greenland
They'll fuck up the country for them, they'll terrorize them, they'll...
Where is his suit? Does he not respect the office? /s
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Europe needs to take him serious. He sees that it works out just fine for Netanjahu and Putin, nobody does anything against them. Greenland is a nice and easy first target.
I remain convinced this is the beginning of Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia.
Absolutely right. These tiny "buy european"-protest are great, but won't change anything. We're too few. The EU needs to step up against these imperialist yokels. Should he get Greenland by force, nothing would happen. He could just do it and he knows.
As an American I really hope the EU takes this seriously. I was screaming about shit like this since Jan 6th and nothing was done. Take these people seriously. The US will invade Greenland and it will be to distract from Putin doing something even worse in Ukraine. They are betting the EU can not fight a war on two fronts. Prove them wrong.
USA population: 346m. EU population: 449m, i.e. about 29% higher.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
https://www.worldometers.info/population/countries-in-the-eu-by-population/
What percentage over the USA domestic market would we need to be to be not "too few"?
Numbers are great, but you forgot that the vast majority just don't care or even worse.
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One of the major things that got him elected in the first place is that he promised to stop the continuous war cycle that the Rs and Ds kept getting us into. Where the hell is this coming from, when did he become yet another warmonger president?
That last sentence gives me the sad notion you actually thought he might do some good. He was never ever going to do anything good or anything he promised to the public.
<...> when did he become yet another warmonger president?
He always was. You must be living under the rock to believe that lie.
Syria attacks in 2019, drones strikes in 2020, failure to leave Afghanistan in 2020.
Not sure if this is sarcasm but if you're serious, you fell for propaganda because Trump has been a warmongering asshole the entire time.
I don't think you need to "fall for propaganda" to know this. I mean, I heard it from Trump supporters listing it off as a reason for why they would vote for him, pointing out how he didn't participate in war during his firs term and was likely to prevent the US from doing so.
Trump campaign against Warmongering against russia and their allies. Everyone else is fair gain.
Does Trump want Greenland so bad because he thinks it's huge due to a map projection?
An interesting take. Read somewhere that the reason Trump want's Greenland and Canada is so the US is bigger geographical than Russia. Was said as a semi-joke. But at this point I'm not ruling anything out.
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Putin is the only person this benefits. Shattering NATO with a bullshit excuse. If America ends up fighting Europe it draws resources away from Ukraine.
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