Emphasis on the word 'alleged' which is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the article that is otherwise void of any details. What proof did he show that the US is doing what he's alleging?
Is it one of those cases where leaders try to move the attention of he population from some grave local issue by pointing at foreign boogiemen attacking them? "Hey voters, don't look at our corruption scandal, look at how allegedly the US wants to invade you"
>Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned the US that "you cannot annex another country".
Except you definitely CAN annex a foreign country. How does he think the US got Texas, Hawaii, California, Nevada, Utah, and overseas territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa?
How did the Kingdom of Denmark get Greenland if not through annexation? Maybe they need a prime minister who paid attention at history in school.
Edit: love the angry downvotes form people who know I'm right but can't bare to admit it so they can only use the downvotes as suppression tool as they have no counter arguments for a debate
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/25/rsted-sh...
The US is actually in a weird place where it has more oil (and natural gas) than any other country by far, but has competition everywhere when selling it and now refining capacity will soon drop to the point where the US will need to import millions of gallons of refined petroleum products per day, probably from Mexico and Asia, with tariffs.
> At the time, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard did not deny the report but accused the Journal of "breaking the law and undermining our nation's security and democracy".
lolwut
It seems pretty convincing. Greenland is such a small population it's hard to hide something like this.
Now trump is driving its creation in a single term.
Denmark is in NATO. What does NATO even mean if the leader of NATO (USA) is attempting to take territory from another NATO country?
The point of NATO is to keep Europe tied to and subservient to the USA (ie. Atlanticism). Or at least that used to be the point of NATO. I have no idea what the point of it is now.
From my perspective, as an European, there's plenty of forces / population within the EU that doesn't want federalization.
Even myself, I'm generally pro-federalization (necessary to solve some structural problems, border, army, money), I definitely don't want to give even more power to Germany (biggest and most powerful EU country), so the only way forward would be for Germany to massively diminish their power... but then they probably wouldn't want that.
1. Has the pressure for more intervention and an EU armed forces gone up?
2. What will that look like, who will pay for it, who will control it, will Germany dominate it etc
I am just saying trump is driving point (1). How or whether (2) is solved is another matter and a more complex thing.
I personally think as need goes up, ways are found. So far people have been unwilling because the points above (2) outweigh the need (1). If trump invaded Greenland then I imagine people would be much more willing to engage even if it meant paying, accepting German leadership (or Germany accepting less oversight despite paying?) etc.
We have already seen France unilaterally extend its nuclear umbrella.
That is what happened with finances: Germany wouldn’t accept EU wide debt, and many countries wouldn’t accept German style fiscal constraints. Then the euro crisis forced both sides to compromise and here we are with both.
I hope it doesn’t take an actual military crisis to force the matter here. But one (two actually, trump on one side, Russia on the other) is looking available…
Could lead to a very tumultuous decade.
vincnetas•1h ago
JumpCrisscross•1h ago
To a certain degree, that is what’s happening. Denmark should bolster its military presence on Greenland, potentially up to and including by putting it under a nuclear umbrella. (Ideally European. Pragmatically, homegrown.)
docdeek•1h ago
aurareturn•1h ago
Let's say the Russia/Ukraine war is over. Russia mends its ties with Europe and says it will be good from now on. The US is ready to annex Greenland. Denmark is powerless and will lose Greenland. Russia calls Denmark and says it can help. If you're Denmark, what would you do?
docdeek•1h ago
aurareturn•1h ago
It would certainly trigger a collapse of NATO. But if the US is serious about taking Greenland, that automatically starts the collapse anyway, right?
Anyway, just all hypotheticals. Interesting to think about. I don't think chances are 0. History has shown us that countries make surprising decisions, including allying with historic enemies, when pushed against the wall.
polotics•53m ago
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vintermann•44m ago
But people don't actually believe in lesser evil politics, they believe in loyalty (to sides, not to principles). That goes for both politicians and people. Danish politicians will not switch geopolitical alliances, and they'd honestly be color-revolutioned out if they tried, without even the CIA having to lift a finger.
aurareturn•37m ago
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tomp•39m ago
Why wouldn't the US do the same in Denmark or any other Western country?
jacquesm•28m ago
What a load of tripe.
JumpCrisscross•46m ago
Build then pull. Or don’t. It’s a treaty from a falling world order.
> quite possibly giving a state like the US pretext to annex Greenland
If you believe America would wait for pretext, you don’t need the umbrella.
jacquesm•1h ago
bryanrasmussen•1h ago
Mad rulers are also quite normal for much of human history, the theory was that Democracy would relieve us of that particular problem.
jacquesm•1h ago
I don't think that was the theory. I think the theory was something in the middle of the wisdom of the crowds and the fact that non-violent hand overs of power are less bad than violent ones.
The main flaw is that democracy can be undone by democracy whereas autocracy in principle can be made to last forever. Of course autocrats eventually kill the host organism so there too there is a built in fuse but it can take a long time (centuries?) to burn.
JumpCrisscross•52m ago
I think Athenian democracy was explicitly built by Solon to relieve gridlock among entrenched, corrupted families.
jacquesm•36m ago
aurareturn•1h ago
This is one of the most insightful videos I've ever seen on society and governments. It describes Anacyclosis, where political systems evolve in a recurring sequence driven by corruption and decay.
Democracy will eventually decay. It's not permanent. You can see it now live where democracies elect more and more radical leaders.
stahorn•1h ago
I think a lot of it has to do with inertia; people have made such a great job in the past in the wester world, with infrastructure, education, law, medicine, and so on, that even when real proper idiots take power, most things just continue being good enough. It takes a lot of time for idiots and autocrats to make their impact, which when (hopefully) voters will switch and get good people back in power.
joegibbs•15m ago
For instance the Romans are thought of as a great, cultured civilisation because their histories won out, but the Gauls and Carthaginians would’ve disagreed.
Like Lord Palmerston said, countries don’t have friends v or enemies, only interests. Russia and China get along well now, definitely didn’t 50 and 150 years ago, but did in intervening periods. Yet they would both consider themselves as in the right regardless.
RobotToaster•1h ago
The liberation of Europe owes more to the Soviet Union than the USA, perhaps the current situation there foretells where we are heading with the USA?
philwelch•1h ago
TheAlchemist•56m ago
The Soviets helped in a major way to defeat the Germans - on par with the US.
But it's also true that they did not liberate anyone in Europe, just replaced the German occupation.
saubeidl•54m ago
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FirmwareBurner•46m ago
That's why they left, Austria agreed to became their trojan horse and lobbying arm in Europe, constantly torpedoing nuclear energy projects[2] and Schengen membership expansions.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56280898
[2] https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/austria-gears-up-t...
JumpCrisscross•51m ago
It really doesn’t. If America abandoned Britain the Nazis would have had a one-front war.
Swenrekcah•49m ago
The Soviet Union got their equipment and supplies mostly for free from the US.
All nations the Soviet Union “liberated” were not so sad when it finally fell and they were actually liberated.
westpfelia•1h ago
I agree something needs to be done but as it stands its not a easy solution. And I would assume if Denmark through nato put nukes on Greenland the US (and I would assume Canada) would treat it as some level of Cuban Missle Crisis.
Swenrekcah•1h ago
Who is it that Denmark should consider their enemy in this situation? Is it normal in your mind that the US should be considered the enemy?
aurareturn•1h ago
Edit: Getting downvoted now. No clue why. It's not me who is making these suggestions. This administration has literally said these things themselves. If you downvote me, at least have the balls to explain why.
bertili•1h ago
But I'm trying to understand this... any American here who can elaborate how he would feel "great again" and re-vote for GOP if the US flag was planted in the center of Nuuk?
westpfelia•1h ago
lycopodiopsida•1h ago
I've never seen a country disasembling itself with such speed. It took Putin 20 years to get the country and society to where it is now, I am not sure USA will be in a better state after 4 years full with nepotism, oligarchy, anti-scientific freaks in administration, corruption and ignoring laws on a daily basis.
casenmgreen•1h ago
He came into power 1st Jan 2000, and by 2004 people were no longer speaking openly, from fear.
lycopodiopsida•1h ago
0dayz•1h ago
Which 1 year after he invaded Georgia.
Swenrekcah•1h ago
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jimkleiber•1h ago
I think processing our feelings around covid could help a lot.
krapp•1h ago
I do think you're right that the effects of covid will have long lasting cultural and political consequences, but the zeitgeist behind the backlash was already well established, and one must remember intentionally orchestrated to benefit certain political interests.
Yeul•1h ago
Unfortunately the US has a strange system in which the most populous and economically vital parts of the country have the least influence in Washington...
krapp•1h ago
We had to keep the slaveowning states happy or else they might secede - wait...
It keeps populist demagogues from taking over - wait...
I got nothing.
FirmwareBurner•52m ago
What makes them more civilized than the other states? I think this elitist atitudine is exactly what got Trump supported from the other states.
At least in my life I've never met anyone who would like me if I declared myself more civilized than them and they wouldn't spite me back for it.
There's probably a good reason South Park crators depicted Californians as smelling their own farts in that episode.
sneak•1h ago
In case he tries another coup, one thing you could do is organize and obtain arms (and train with them) and have you and your group, as well as any other groups you can muster, near DC around late January 2029. The rule of law cannot be taken for granted.
There is only one language that tyrants speak.
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aurareturn•56m ago
subscribed•51m ago
Behind his back, the same ghoul (Miller) will still be holding the reins.
Trump was a catalyst for Project 2025, he's no longer instrumental im afraid.
aurareturn•48m ago
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MomsAVoxell•1h ago
It is the war crimes which are driving the USA into this totalitarian-authoritarian dystopia.
The idea of American Supremacy rendering the nation impervious to justice emboldens the agents of empire.
saubeidl•57m ago
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elktown•53m ago
Privileged people have a bad habit of assuming they'll be outside of any significantly adverse effects - or may even think "Well, this kinda sucks, but maybe this is actually pretty good for my wallet (read: social-economical status)".
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VWWHFSfQ•38m ago
But now Denmark is apparently upset that an even bigger, greedier bully is trying to take it from them?
I don't care about it one way or the other. I imagine an agreement will be made where USA gets something like 80% of the resource rights in exchange for Denmark getting to keep the title and then we'll all forget about this.
aurareturn•33m ago
VWWHFSfQ•28m ago
But Denmark isn't the one that should be complaining about their ill-gotten loot being taken from them.
AndyMcConachie•34m ago
Revolution is required.
mcosta•12m ago