this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
505 points (99.6% liked)

World News

51959 readers
2824 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Greenland’s prime minister has said “we choose Denmark” before high-stakes talks at the White House as Donald Trump seeks to take control of the Arctic territory.

Amid rising tensions over the US president’s push, Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Tuesday told a joint press conference with his Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, that the island would not be owned or governed by Washington.

“We are now facing a geopolitical crisis. If we have to choose between the US and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark, Nato and the EU,” Nielsen said, adding that the island’s “goal and desire is peaceful dialogue, with a focus on cooperation”.Trump’s pursuit of the island was also a matter of “international law and our right to our own country”, he said.

MBFC
Archive

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (49 children)

Calling it now. But, European politicians are so incredibly subservient to America. They will literally "give" Greenland to America before they dissolve NATO.

Or, America will just invade, and they'll basically treat it like it didn't happen. They'll condemn it on paper. Say things like "this really puts into question blah blah blah" but they'll literally take no material action against it. At best they have some meaningless vote in the UN about it that does nothing.

Europe is the equivalent of the Democratic party at this point. Just pointing at "bad thing" and going along with it entirely. All while trying to keep the "moral high ground".

You guys should be burning down your cities if America takes Greenland and Europe does nothing. Your politicians are cowards just like ours are. Don't expect them to do anything to resist.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (20 children)

You do realize that the US delegates so much of its arctic capabilities to the scandinavian countries in NATO that it would be a balanced fight at least in the beginning, right?

[–] kablez@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Given America's obvious advantages with the scale of its military resources, I thought that the fight would be easy too, but after thinking about it I'm not so sure. War is not simply a matter of having advanced weapons and lots of units.

Considering how retarded Trump's administration is and how demoralised the most professional and loyal military personnel are, combined with civil unrest domestically... I don't think Trump can execute a successful invasion of another country without losing everything. More competent administrations (barely more*) have started wars and it cost them dearly in the ballot box.

You can have the best jets and ships and missiles, but if the personnel operating them think you are a pedophile and a traitor, giving illegal orders through a compromised chain of command.. how effective do you think they will be in a theater of war?

Let's hope we never find out.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean you just need to look at all the wars the USA has lost against much weaker countries. Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, just to mention a few.

And the only wars they actually won in the more modern times were with the help of EU NATO allies.

They can't do shit on their own. They're only good at "strike and run away" operations, like the one in Venezuela.

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

We can insult the regime without restoring to abelist slurs.

load more comments (17 replies)
load more comments (45 replies)