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Even his most coherent quotes contradict themselves, and he talks shit all day long. And the phrasing "Greenland deadline" is a little too evocative for my taste, but clickbait is a must these days.

He added: "We need Greenland from a national security situation. It's so strategic."

The US already has military bases on Greenland in accordance with diplomatic agreements. This isn't about national security or defense strategy. If it were, there would be diplomatic ways to increase US military presence. This risks losing the diplomatic agreements which allow the US to maintain a military presence there. It won't be very strategic if US forces get banished from the realm.

This isn't about national defense. It's about natural resources. Trump wants to exploit Greenland for its rare minerals the same way he wants to exploit Venezuela for its crude oil.

It's so transparent.

I really dislike the narrative 'eu can't leave nato' / 'eu can't push back on the us because we need them. I'd really like to know:

• how true this is
• how much the people in control want to change this
• how long it will take to change this

The eu can't allow itself to be treated like this, but also can't allow itself to be forced into a passive stance of having to agree. The eu needs to be able to stand up to this bully (and all the others).

The most sane suggestion in international geopolitics since a very long time!

Don’t forget that Hawaii should go to Iceland due to volcanic brotherhood (and to give the Icelandics an opportunity to get a tan). And NYC goes back to the Netherlands if they’ll take it (think how expensive it would be to add all the bike lanes).

… with the exception of Scotland, which goes to Bavaria because of cultural similarities.

As a german, I think this is an insult to all scottish people.

Strongly worded emails are being considered.

Notice anything unusual?
- Nah.

Greenland is a goner, I'm afraid.
Even worse, with mounting aggression from East and West, and our own right-wing parties handing our enemies the continent on a silver platter, Greenland's fall is going to usher in a century of humiliation for Europe.

This. Europe will just watch and do nothing, as always

Hot take: even if they would get released uncensored and in full, nothing would happen.

We would just have confirmation on what we aready know.

At this point talking about the files is a distraction from the atrocities the US government commits and not the other way around.

I’m concerned that anybody could think such spearheaded attacks could bring anything but chaos. I agree on Greenland, kidnapping a high value target with a flashy operation has nothing to do with conquest. Successful US dominance was based on diplomacy, imo Trump overrates military supremacy once deprived of diplomatic credibility.

Or you know. Like the US has done before Trump. There are already US military bases and I‘m sure he could have built more and even extracted minerals for a fee. But nope it has to be his. Fuck everyone else, including the US by proxy.

There's a lot of oil in Greenland. Donnie wants that for his rich buddies.

They were literally offered Greenland by the Danish ambassodor during WWII, and could have kept it after the war, but chose to hand it back. So no, the purposes of the US with Greenland has been served perfectly fine with the previous diplomatic arrangements they have had.

There is no sense to this other than Trump sees how big and beautiful it looks on a map in the same colour as the US territory.