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Denmark condemns what it calls Trump's escalated rhetoric on Greenland

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"We need Greenland for national security and international security. So, we'll, I think we'll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Louise Rasmussen
Thu 27 March 2025 at 4:54 am GMT-4·2-min read

Sounds damned close to a declaration of war.

"So, we'll, I think we'll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark," Trump said.

Tough to take anything Trump says seriously but there's not a lot of wiggle room in that statement.
 
I think most Trump supporters do too but they’re having a hard time actually admitting it.
Same thing happened during the first Trump administration. No one likes to publicly admit they were wrong. So, they keep silent until they hear someone else give a vaguely plausible defense, and then they scream it from the rooftops in a desperate attempt to deny the reality that they voted against their own interests.
 
I honestly don't think this is a joke or him waving a shiny object around. I think he genuinely believe there are natural resources to be had and he wants them for the United States.

I won't make any predictions on who will prevail on the Greenland question, but I don't think this is going away. However, diplomatic ruptures have consequences, as we shall soon see. We're going to see just how 'boot-strappin' a people we really are.
 
"We need Greenland for national security and international security. So, we'll, I think we'll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Louise Rasmussen
Thu 27 March 2025 at 4:54 am GMT-4·2-min read

Sounds damned close to a declaration of war.

"So, we'll, I think we'll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark," Trump said.

Tough to take anything Trump says seriously but there's not a lot of wiggle room in that statement.
Now the obese anus aka demented donnie has added DENMARK to his conquest list?

Just think...we might be at war with NATO.
 
I agree - he's serious and completely insane.

He's serious. I'm not sure the idea of acquiring Greenland's raw materials is insane. There's an argument to be made that the United States is in a contest for raw materials with China and Russia. But I obviously disagree with how his administration's going about it. Even if you try and defend what he's doing purely on realpolitik grounds, we're not the only ones who can play that game, and I sorta think China and Russia are content to sit back and watch us destroy the soft power that we have in a foolish pursuit of maximizing hard power.
 

I guess using Russia as the example, yes, there's cronyism, but when the regime/nation (we can debate which is which) is confronted with an emergency, the resources come in handy for achieving national objectives, or for achieving the regime's ideological objectives, if you will.
 
He's serious. I'm not sure the idea of acquiring Greenland's raw materials is insane. There's an argument to be made that the United States is in a contest for raw materials with China and Russia. But I obviously disagree with how his administration's going about it. Even if you try and defend what he's doing purely on realpolitik grounds, we're not the only ones who can play that game, and I sorta think China and Russia are content to sit back and watch us destroy the soft power that we have in a foolish pursuit of maximizing hard power.
He really is sick in the head, maga can't figure it out, because cult....
 
Greenland votes for Greenland. Denmark has no control over how Greenland votes. The people of Greenland will decide their fate.
 
He really is sick in the head, maga can't figure it out, because cult....

I think MAGA actually supports what he's doing and they have a rationale for it. We just don't like what that rationale is, because we don't believe in outright imperialism. We thought we left that behind in the early 20th Century. But mercantilism and imperialism are worldviews that are completely consistent with MAGA. It's a hard power flex. It's neo-conservatism that's unconflicted, without all the bullshit pretense of pretending to care about preserving the multinational world order with exceptions a la the War on Terror.
 
I honestly don't think this is a joke or him waving a shiny object around. I think he genuinely believe there are natural resources to be had and he wants them for the United States.

I won't make any predictions on who will prevail on the Greenland question, but I don't think this is going away. However, diplomatic ruptures have consequences, as we shall soon see. We're going to see just how 'boot-strappin' a people we really are.
I’m entirely confident that Traitor Trump will not annex Greenland, which I’m not entirely convinced is his actual goal.
 
I’m entirely confident that Traitor Trump will not annex Greenland, which I’m not entirely convinced is his actual goal.

You may be right. His goal may be that we get exclusive rights over all of Greenland's natural resources with some sort of sharing agreement with the folks who live there. But the ultimate aim is that US companies get to come in and start tearing up the earth's crust in a quest for raw materials, and we get to do this exclusively. Wouldn't have to annex anyone; just lock them into a treaty that takes their future wealth and gives it to us, for us to redistribute.

FTR, just so we're clear, I'm not a proponent of this, but there are a lot of people who are thinking exactly these thoughts.
 
I don't think you're going to like how they vote.
That's their vote not Denmark or anyone else. But they may be willing to make a deal on mining minerals and expanding our military presence in the area.
 
I think most Trump supporters do too but they’re having a hard time actually admitting it.
They are enjoying it. The most important thing maga wants trump to do is piss off the libz.
 
Added thought of the thread.

I think Trump was right in that previous administrations, particularly before 2017, were way, way too soft on China, and we've been blind to how China has used the US's own global order to transform itself into an economic and political powerhouse.

But this is not the way to do it. I think Biden was (mostly) the correct calibration. Gradually bring industry back here through a combination of incentives and export controls. Moreover, as much as we compete with China and Russia, we still need global cooperation (where possible) on global problems, like climate change, pandemics, and whatever else. If we don't believe that, then this is all just a violent race to the bottom and we'll see the bloodbath soon enough.
 
the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

What the world needs is Trump to stop with the threats. Stop trying to create conflict and stop trying to alienate everyone for goodness sake.
 
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