Trump's new Greenland envoy intends to make territory 'a part of the US'

https://news.sky.com/story/trumps-new-greenland-envoy-intends-to-make-territory-a-part-of-the-us-13486627

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55484035

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Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 71 pts · 263d (13 replies)

His ambassador to Canada wants to make us the 51st state too. And with congress just passing a spending bill that will give the military over 1 trillion dollars it looks like the US is about to start annexing North America.

SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 263d (6 replies)

And here I thought we only applied manifest destiny to Brown people.

Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 263d (5 replies)

No, between Trump's made-up fentanyl pouring in to the US from Canada and Tucker Carlson's rhetoric about invading to save the Canadian people from their own leaders (https://piefed.ca/c/canada/p/409210/tucker-carlsons-canada-invasion-rhetoric-and-the-maga-fracture) there's good reason to believe they'll invade in the near future. They've spoken before about the need to secure the continent.

aesthelete@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 263d (3 replies)

It's so ridiculous when they can't even effectively govern the fucking country they already have.

LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 263d

Imperialism is often seen as a compelling solution to the absolute failure of tyrants to govern domestically.

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 263d

They're not trying to effectively govern. It has been a long time since that was any concern of the Republican Party. Their government is about using force to steal whatever you can get, and enjoying cruelty towards those who can't fight back.

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d

They call it "small government," and the media refuses to call bullshit.

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d

I hope there's a draft. I hope the inbred , homeschooled idiots who voted for him cry when their sons and grandsons are hauled off to Basic.

Enoril@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 263d

Well it's obvious US, Russian and China collude to take control of other parts of the world.

US take the American continent, Russia the European and China the Asian...

The African continent is actively scouted by China and Russia right now too... Remain Australia... well... who want Australia?

It's why Trump won't push too much regarding Putin, he wants to do the same and remain in power for life.

thelivefive@startrek.website · 2 pts · 263d

It's supposed to 75° here on Christmas. I wonder if that trend has anything to do with it?

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 263d (2 replies)

Be hard to do with such terrible support of the US people.

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d (1 reply)

Most Americans are too self-centered to care.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 262d

Pretty much every person anywhere is self centered.

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d

What was it started when a dictatorship invaded Poland, back in 1939?

medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 263d (1 reply)

Smoke and mirrors. Where are the rest of the unredacted Trump-Epstein files?

DreasNil@feddit.nu · 8 pts · 263d

Came here to say this ☝🏻

bagsy@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 263d (1 reply)

All of this becuase the US wont put pedophiles, crooks, and theives in jail because they are rich.

Truly pathetic.

Valenou@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 263d
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DreasNil@feddit.nu · 38 pts · 263d (8 replies)

Now release ALL of the Trump-Epstein files! 🙄

payhn@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 263d

I vote we start calling the files this and only this. He’s had two chances to release them and has talked about pardoning the conspirator. He also loves putting his name on things 🤷‍♂️

Nalivai@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 263d (4 replies)

I bet they're gone already, redacted, shreded, destroyed. Why would they keep them if they can just destroy them

jimerson@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 263d (3 replies)

My last bastion of hope is that some Snowden-like individual has the originals somewhere.

How I still retain the ability to hope at this point is the real mystery.

Nalivai@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 263d (1 reply)

If at some point the US will care abou laws and constitution again, the published evidence will be enough to put all those pedos into megajail forever. As it stands, nothing will. They could publish a livefeed of Trump raping and eating children, and nothing will happen to him, and he wouldn't lose a single supporter over it. Honestly, I don't know why do they even bother with all this

jimerson@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 263d

You're not wrong. And every disgusting action taken, both foreign and domestic, is an effort to ensure that IF never sees the light of day.

random_character_a@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 263d

Each and everyone of those tech billionaire at his inauguration has a copy.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 262d (1 reply)

Yes, hurry up and release them so we can get on with imposing no consequences whatsoever for his crimes

DreasNil@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 251d

Touché

DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 263d

By stating his hostile intentions so clearly it makes denying him entry perfectly justified.

Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 263d (7 replies)

Can all countries simply refuse his entry. Refuse to talk to him. Make no meeting, attend no conferences etc. If the US makes a stink by saying he's a diplomat, too bad. Countries have that right.

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 263d (4 replies)

YES!!

The sovereign nation of Greenland can at any time declare their airspace to be GREENLAND ONLY AND FRIENDLY and shoot down any invading aircraft, or lock on enough weapons to make the pilot realize its u turn or eject.

PLEASE THREATEN AIR FORCE ONE IT IS CARRYING TRAITORS

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 262d (1 reply)

Then, for the love of fairy godmothers, do it. Trump has been doing whatever the fuck he wants with no consequences. if the Untied States won't draw a line, other countries need to. I don't want to hear about what can be done, I want it done

kreskin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 262d

Agreed. The assertion of imagined power often becomes real power. Not pushing back on fake power is actually ceding the outcome.

setsubyou@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 262d (1 reply)

Greenland can’t really shoot anything down because they have no military of their own.

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 260d

You’re right and that’s a perfect example of what leaning too much on the US does for global defense when we elect a clown to direct the circus. I’d bet a couple CF-18’s might be nearby…bold move but they fuckin burned the house down before I say go for it

MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · 1 pts · 262d

Then he’d call them a national security threat, embargo them, and expand the military base the US has there.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 262d

Basically, that's how they treated Vance when he came to throw his weight around. They totally ignored him until his posse got bored and went home.

CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 263d

I love speed rushing world war 3

kreskin@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 262d

Greenland should persona non grata him and deport his arse to el salvador. Landry even dresses like a clown. All he is missing is the clown horn.

SkabySkalywag@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 263d (2 replies)

Either this mf has the delusional cojones of a Bond villain right before he dies in an explosion

Or, they know this will fail and are ramping the rhetoric to ensure this will distract as much as possible from whatever they need.

this@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 263d

Yes indeed it is one way to distract from the Epstein files.

Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d

Monkeys don't really care where they throw the shit because just throwing it is the best and easiest part.

WereHacker@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 263d (9 replies)

Title is misleading. Greenland is a country.

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 263d

Closest I could say is “Greenland is to Denmark as Puerto Rico is to the US”

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 263d (6 replies)

Nope...

But Greenland is currently a semi-autonomous part of Denmark, which is unhappy about Trump's latest move.

It's not a country.

BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 263d (2 replies)

Greenland is one of three countries in the Kingdom of Denmark, the other two countries are the Faeroese Islands and Denmark. We each have our own paliarments and institutions. But we share our Monarch, some government functions like defense and foreign policy, and our currency. Kinda like how Scotland uses the British pound and bitches about having to leave the EU.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 263d (1 reply)

Also similarly to how Catalonia and the Basque Country are semi-autonomous regions of Spain. Except I don't think Denmark imprisons elected officials who promote separatism.

BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 263d

I bet we used to, before Greenland and the Faeroese Islands got their home-rule. I mean we used to be some right assholes, especially in Greenland.

ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 263d (2 replies)

You go to Glasgow and try telling them they aren’t a country…

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 263d

"It's Sassenachs-occupied Alba, ya cunt! Awaa wi' ya or I'll pit ma heid to ya!"

givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 263d

You go to Glasgow

The only real way to identify a problem, is get boots on the ground 2.5k km always, with a giant ocean for most of that space.

Want to be able to get the whole picture you see, the entire Eastern facing shore, then we'll so what's a vountry...

xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 262d

Technically, Greenland is a Danish autonomous territory

sturmblast@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 263d

Trump is a terrorist

SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 263d

Sounds like a piece of shit

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 262d

Trump will do anything to avoid the epstein proof of his degeneracy, but he's all out of time. Don't worry Greenland, he will very soon be a piece of bad history.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 262d

Because the American government let's him do whatever the fuck he wants, he assumes other countries will too

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 262d

Have him take a walk around Greenland. I'm sure that it will be necessary so that he can evaluate it for US occupation.

My fellow Arctic peeps: ikykwim.

_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 4 pts · 263d

persona non grata. Oprah style. all around.

BenjiRenji@feddit.org · 3 pts · 263d

Yeah, good luck.. idiots.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d

So pretty much the second Trump steps into any UN territory, he should be arrested.