Danish officials fear Trump is much more serious about acquiring Greenland than in first term
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/08/politics/danish-officials-trump-greenland
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Danish officials fear Trump is much more serious about acquiring Greenland than in first term
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/08/politics/danish-officials-trump-greenland
by LaxJackson
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Ban Trump from entering EU and greenland ban MAGA ban Elon Musk ban every person associated with MAGA and Elon Musk. Problem solved
What if Denmark and Greenland puts the price at 1 trillion just to mock Trump?
Cold war presidents from their grave watching trump destroy europes faith in NATO before even taking office:
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From Denmark: In Denmark we are pretty pissed having a supposedly friend threaten us with economic or even military pressure for us to give up part of our kingdom. With friends like that who needs enemies??
All this imperial talk about what’s best for who. Greenland is a democracy- in 2025 it’ll most likely have a referendum if its people wish to be independent. Then eventually if its people wish to be in the EU. I’ve heard nothing about its people wishing to be apart of America- which seems impossible based on how their laws conflict in so many areas.
Trump will not attack Greenland to annex it. He can say all he wants but the American people would never support that and it would lead to Vietnam level protests. Look how quickly it took Americans to turn on bush with the Afghanistan invasion- especially considering how soon 9/11 was. And that did push America to push back its plan. Yes there’s the MAGA problem that’s concerning and yes it’s a problem that Trump is even at the least just talking about this- but I actually do have more faith in the Americans. Unless he finds a proxy country to invade Greenland instead- then that can get tricky since Americans do love proxy wars. But given Greenland is an island surrounded by modern democracies I don’t know who the proxy war could even involve.
Most likely Trump will issue something like an ultimatum – “sell it for $X or I will take it for free with force”.
Another option he will try to hijack the independence movement, fund it, they declare independence and then make a deal with the US without Denmark involved.
Those two things – are the biggest risks.
I can’t be the only one thinking that sooner or later Greenlanders will start wanting to secede?
They will problably try to buy the People there. A basic income of like $50K a year for life for each Greenlanders= $2.85bn total cost per year. Absolutely negligible for a $30 trillion economy.
The west and nato would never allow it, he’s fucking with us in Canada too. These next 4 years America is an adversary of the free and democratic world.
Issue with this is that Greenland is an independent democracy with only 56000 people if I remember correctly. 56000 x 10.000.000 dollar is 560 billion, which is a bargain. And every citizen of greenland would be set for life. He only needs 2/3 to say yes to have a constitutional change in Greenland and all of a sudden there are 52 states in the US of A……
So yes, he could just buy it by buying “yes” votes.
but what if it is not about greenland, but about creating an atmosphere in which russia annexing ukraine appears rational
Dumb question… does the EU countries (through Greenland) & Canada have budgets / plans in place to counter the 50 bases Russia has built surrounding half the Arctic Ocean?
Don’t give the idiot platform. And prepare for a total deglobalization and a situation when we may have to fight USA and Russia. Bring all industry back to Europe under security regulations. Start a joint EU nuclear deterrence force. Build 5000 nuclear warheads and MIRVed ICBMs. That’s the only way to go forward.
At a few million a vote the US could buy off the Greenland population. How loyal are Greenlanders to Denmark? We might find out. The Danish can keep saying it’s not for sale, but in Trump’s world everything is for sale. He has no honor or loyalty.
All this annexing /Gulf of america verbal crap is him, looking for a way to go full fascist.
It’s a lot more serious than that. If the US moves on Greenland, it’s open bar elsewhere. China will go for Taiwan, and others may get a lot more cocky too, Azerbaijan or Turkey. If Ukraine was not resisting heroically against Russia, they would probably go for the Baltics. Scary times ahead, Europe needs real leaders (aka not VDL) and a real vision for defense and integration.
He was always serious. He has zero sense of humor. He only knows hate, bullying, lying, revenge. People who cross him get disappeared.
Europe can help by reminding Trump he told the MAGA base he would fix their grocery prices, price of gasoline, build the Trump wall on the the US southern border, and of course conduct the Trump deportation.
If Europe could just keep sending that message over and over again.
That would be great. Win Win for them and keep Trump focused on fixing things for his poor, underclass, MAGA base.
US Citizen here, I and many sane Americans who didn’t vote for him utterly feel embarrassed and disgusted by this, the fact that trump has succeeded controlling all 3 branches of government makes this look even more dangerous, all the hope lies within our military now, I hope many refuse to fight against our allies and for this idiots ego boost, most of our top military brass hopefully refuses these insane orders…. If he ever goes through with this for sure some type of mutiny might happen, and if he reinstates the draft, no one will go and fight for this moron, we would rather all go to prison than to go and fight our close allies….
Trump is seeking revenge for what happened during his first term when he tried to buy Greenland and Denmark laughed him off then cancelled his State Visit.
Well then sanction the US. Stop exports of Ozempic and Carlsberg and Lego.
Shut down any US military operations on Danish soil.
“Acquiring”… like in hostile takeover? In the context o politics, it’s called “invading” like what Russia is doing to Ukraine.
I am too. You can keep your eyes closed and think “ah it wont be so bad’. But the USA is positioning itself for WW3. They will defend their waning hegemony to the last breath. And obtaining greenland is a strategically important step for that.
I so wish europe would get their asses together FAST. Because we can either choose and have an independent role in this future as the wiser middle man, or we can be a divided bunch of suckers letting ourselves be abused and threathened by both the US and Russia.
This is the reward for being USAs lapdog. We helped them spy on the rest of europe, joined their dumb wars and let them use our soil for military bases and in return they want to invade Greenland. Yet still our government tells us the US is our great ally. I just wish we would get a backbone at some point, it’s honestly embarassing being danish.
All I’m wondering is how much the American people will allow Trump and Elon to get away with.
Dear Greenland,
I think it is high time the European Union (yes! you, citizen!) offers a hand of help to Greenland. I know you are already associated with us through Denmark, but due to your partial sovereignty you did not become a full member. Well I, as a fellow European, even though I do see that your history is fairly different from continental Europe, feel your sovereignty should be respected, and protected, and which better alliance to do so than the Union of sovereign nations that is the EU? Your freedom is our freedom. Sure, as a full member you have to accept the agreed European standards of being a democracy, environmental, standardization and trade agreements, and you have to join the Euro currency eventually if you join now, but… what? You are using the Danish Krona? And Denmark does not have to switch? Well then, surely that applies to you too? So what are you waiting for?
/s
If I understand correctly, the current polls in Greenland show that 60%+ are for joining the EU. And I would really welcome them under these circumstances… I really can’t stand this bully sh*t…
People are loosing sight.
Trump just wants to be one of his legacies making “America Great” just by giving the US a bigger share of the artic (countries with coastline at the north have more “maritime rights”) where is estimated about a third of the world oil reserves could lie still.
And that’s useful, seeing Russia only has currently about 20 more years of oil proved reserves at their current rates (and is more and more difficult to find more proved reserves, more so cheap to extract), or that Saudi Arabia only has 75 years at their current rates.
That’s why also Trump is looking up so much (Canada, Greenland… he would even say Norway if he could)
Don’t worry. Just cave so we can get our hands on your oil and gas. That’s all we really care about. Biden put a stop to some offshore drilling so gotta go elsewhere? Exclusively use our own existing resources? Psh. Never.
What if Denmark put a price on Greenland, let’s say, twice as much as Russia fined Google recently
Just explain to Trump that adding more northern states will just push the next election to the Democrats.
CNN loves drama, to stir up drama and sell it lol
I think he’s fucking stupid and doesn’t even know where Greenland is on a map of Greenland.
We even followed America into their bullshit wars and lost lives to it. And this is the thanks we get?
And I know, I know, not all American wanted this. But the fact is more Americans decided to unleash this raving lunatic on the world than voted for the sane candidate. Because eggs were expensive?
America, as a nation, you dragged out the most corrupt, incompetent and delusional people you could find and handed them the keys to the most powerful office in the world. Twice!
America, you fuckwits should be ashamed of yourself.
Sincerely, Denmark.
If the people of Greenland wish to join America, then let them join.
But to forcibly annex a country against the will of the people should be met with military force.
I don’t think Trump cares for the people of Greenland anyway. He just see resources.
They probably don’t even register as human to trump.
They aren’t worried. This is clickbait and Trump is doing all this shit to divert attention from what he and his cronies are really doing.
I think Trump will employ the Putin playbook of just take a bit here and take a bit there and each instance is not enough for Europe / NATO to take a stance as they don’t want to get into an actual war, but slowly but surely the imperialist gets everything they want without conflict, constantly moving their gaze further and further.
So I could totally see him “peacefully occupying” Greenland and slowly take control of it.
Let the ppl in Greenland vote. The desinty will be decided by ppl, not politicans
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