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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 18 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

American here. I'm sure annexing Greenland would be very useful to us for all kinds of reasons. I don't want to do it.

Unless the people in Greenland want to become part of the United States, I don't believe we have any more right to declare Greenland ours than Hitler had a right to declare France his, or Russia has a right to declare Ukraine theirs.

If the people of Greenland want to become part of the United States, verified with an election monitored by multiple disinterested third parties, then by all means welcome to the party guys.

However given the timing of this ridiculous idea, I can't help but think the whole thing is just a distraction from the Epstein files.

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 minutes ago

I see colonialism is back on the menu of Amerikkkans

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

How very colonial of you.

[–] llothar@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

That's a very slippery slope. I am sure there are parts of Latvia that would happily join Russia. Or parts of US that would like to cede from the union. This is all but easy.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, if we really need anything from it we should work with the Greenlandic people and the Danes to find a mutually agreeable solution. Annexing territories of allies is evil and fucking stupid.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

A mutual solution to the problem the US created and which didn't exist before Trump.