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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 think a civil war in NATO might be funsies

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).

Erm, have you heard of the NATO members Greece and Turkey? They're basically threatening to invade each other since Alexander the Great or something.

Ofcourse we're spineless, america's army is way bigger than ours, so yeah what else can we do ...

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.

This is very Scottish phobic, they should obviously reunite with their motherland, Egypt.

Germany is still far too big. i have several proposals in that regard.

Strongly worded emails are being considered.

Notice anything unusual?
- Nah.

::: spoiler Alt Text Two armed guards at entrance of medieval castle. EU flag at top of entrance. Two guests entering. Closeups of guards' blank faces.
Knight appears in the distance, Russian flag above head. Closeups of guards' faces, staring blankly.
Russian flag above knight's head joined by Hungarian and Slovak flags. Closeups of guards' faces, staring blankly.
Flags joined by social media companies' logos. Closeups of guards' faces, staring blankly.
Flags and logos joined by drones. Closeups of guards' faces, staring blankly.
Flags, logos, drones joined by USA flag. Knight slays 1st guard as 2nd guard looks on.
Knight and 1st guard out of frame, EU flag torn in half. 2nd guard says: "Hey!"
:::

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

europe aint got a choice really

20 days is 2 business months for Trump.

Bro got attacked by his dementia mid-sentence.

You are under the mistaken impression that Trump is in charge. His dementia is far worse than just a few years ago, even two years ago. This time around his handlers have figured out how to manipulate him.

Taking Greenland isn't Trump's idea. If he wasn't being fed ideas like this, he'd be plenty happy getting fatter, napping and continuing the grift from the Resolute desk.

The US is going to take Greenland. As global warming rolls on, mineral extraction becomes easier and more profitable, and Arctic sea lanes will open year-round. If you were playing Risk, taking Greenland would be a no-brainer.

It is not a clickbait title. It is an attempt at explaining to normal people what the crazy boomer with nukes is rambling about.

deadline, definition number three from The American Heritage Dictionary: "A date on or before which something must be completed."

So I guess twenty days away is the deadline, or date, for talking about Greenland again?

As annoying as headlines can be the tendency of people to intentionally misinterpret them is pretty annoying too.

Yes he said that about his health care plan 12 years ago. It was always a month away.

yep. but people are freaking out like he's going to invade in two days because of their irrational fear response and their doomerism fantasizing.

Fallout IRL

Countries with nukes don’t get invaded.

It's a myth. The US could be planning to survive nuclear winter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

At least they are working on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield

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.

Won't it? Not like europe could stop it or we have to choose to go to war with them ig economically and ...physically? depends on usa, but they will rather give it up than start a war I bet

For one, Trump's not thinking. You are ascribing thought and intentions to a man you and I would long ago have sent to the home were he our grandfather.

His handlers put these ideas in his head and soon enough they'll hand him invasion papers to sign. "Here are the orders you asked us to draw up." That easy.

Speaking of easy, taking Greenland will be all too easy. Europe didn't respond appropriately to the Russian threat in its own backyard; they're hardly going to cross the Pond to oust the strongest military on Earth. Fuck me, the EU is still mumbling about further Russian sanctions, after years of this conflict.

Stories like this are for preparing US citizens, and the world at large, for the coming reality.

He CAN take it far easier than Maduro. But the consequences would be far greater and it would be much harder to hold it.

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.

Yeah, Denmark and the EU would happily let the US military do whatever they want/it needs to defend against Russia and China. This argument is bullshit, just like kidnapping Maduro because if drugs.

If there is one single thing that is consistent, it is that US foreign politics aims at enriching the Trump clan and the US oligarchs. Under this premise, it all makes sense.

hahahahaha referring to donald as normal .... suggesting donald to cooperate .... where have you been lately ? please start with 2025.

The US is not Trump. There must be a bunch of strategists who think that cooperation is enough. The US billionaires would impeach Trump if the move would be stupid.

So there is more to it. Crazy Trump is a deception.

Why play by rules when you don't have to? Imagine explaining to the schoolyard bully that he has to work within an agreeable framework.

The US doesn't sign onto international agreements like the ICC because they don't have to.

This

We need to stop allowing psychopaths and narcissists from getting any power whatsoever

We have a list of requirements if you want to become a fireman. If you want to become a lawyer, it's a protected job that not anyone can do, you must pass the bar and whatnot to be able to call yourself one

Want to become a politician and make the rules? Suddenly there are no rules nor requirements, any idiot is welcome. WTF?

If you were born with, say, a deformed hand, we don't let you become a fireman because you need your arms

If you're born without the ability to feel empathy for others, or literally can only care about yourself, or are incapable or stopping with lying, then apparently you're perfect for the type of job where you make rules for others and have to decide what happens to others. WTF?

Stop psychopaths and narcissists from becoming politicians, have a law against it

Isnt xi, though a dictator, the smartest one among them, who is also trying to push technological advancements and at least trying to solve eco issues? Best of trio

It's also plenty of people that support them. Some folks just like to watch the world burn.

What saddens me is that somehow the idea of uniting and flourishing together is not universally accepted as good. Some people always want more for themselves, and it's often easy to manipulate them into identifying themselves and the nation, the nation and its leaders. To them, Trump or Putin or Xi getting another ambition played feels like personal victory. In fact, it's rather everybody's loss.

Trump, Putin, Xi and others are the reason why humanity can't have good things.

Also, the "good" people who believe that remaining polite and non-confrontational is the best way to appease bullies, because it has ALWAYS worked so well on the past. They are the ones who determine that sometimes maniacs become so psychopathic, that we are better off letting them do whatever they want, because ultimately it might be slightly less lethal to millions of people.

Or you could keep those people away from the leadership of your nation in the first place, but that wouldn't be polite. Everybody deserves a turn at the steering wheel, even if they are suicidal.

The problem this time is, there's no "good guy" relatively speaking, to jump in and stop them this time. World War III has begun, and the fascists will win easily. Then they turn on each other.

Yeah, Trump clearly compensates for some insecurities

It is his typical "If I set a deadline sometime in the near future, then they will probably stop talking about it because they will have forgotten about it, just like I will have forgotten about it". He did it with his healthcare plan, his plan for eradicating ISIS and so forth.

I wish journalists would stop asking him about Greenland, because it only serves to remind him about it, and make him aware it is something which makes people talk about him, which really turns him on as a pathological narcissist. If they stopped asking him about it, he would stop talking about it and forget it in those 20 days to 2 months.

From the quote, either two months or 20 days. The jist just being Trump is too busy to start another war now.

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.

Trump has flouted the idea in 2019 already, and there is some history. But just to be clear, the mere fact that the USA have expressed interest in Greenland one way or another over the centuries does of course not legitimize that interest! And afaics there's nothing more to it. Just "interest" a.k.a. greed, expansionism, imperialism.

I remember George W Bush talking about buying Greenland from us back in the 2000s. We thought he was a crazy bastard but I actually miss Bush. He was the fun kind of incompetent.

Before that there was a very embarrassing moment in time during the 50s where the US illegally used Greenland for nuclear experiments and left the nuclear waste on Greenland and pissed on us when our government tried to get them to take responsibility for the clean up. I see that as an invasion too, but it was kept hush hush for years. It's still a problem now that the ice is melting.

No

He's the king of America. He can do whathe wants.

Better question is who is pulling his strings? He's a simpleton who's trivialy ready to manipulate.

Yeah, how did we get here? I mean it's not just the USA, half the EU is like "yes sir, a little deeper please."

Because he has a big army. Previous leaders have honored the principle that with great power comes great responsibility. Trump honors the principle that with great power comes the power to take what the hell you want, and nobody can do a goddamn thing about it.

talk? I honestly don't know, he should be gagged since forever now