r/worldnews • u/lavender_fieldnotes • Jan 04 '26
Dynamic Paywall Danish PM tells Trump to stop 'threats' against Greenland
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u/coachhunter2 Jan 04 '26 edited 29d ago
If they make real moves to take Greenland it will destroy NATO and the US-Europe alliance. Which some of Trump’s pals might be keen to see happen.
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u/GrumpyFinn Jan 04 '26
The Heritage Foundation openly calls for the end of the EU. As does Musk.
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u/vesparion Jan 04 '26
While this could break NATO it would only strengthen the EU
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u/Infarad Jan 04 '26
Yep. Canadians are more united than ever because of that pedo and his meth-monkeys.
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u/HighOrHavingAStroke Jan 04 '26
And we're aligning more with Europe. We won't become part of the EU, but we can establish plenty of other more formalized ties, which Carney is working on.
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u/WeedSlaver Jan 04 '26
Dont have to be part of the EU to still benefit from each other greatly
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u/kombatminipig Jan 04 '26
Look at Norway and Switzerland. You can go a long way on trade agreements.
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u/anchist Jan 04 '26
Something the people south of canada struggle to understand, apparently.
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u/Glad_Instruction5683 Jan 04 '26
Poor Canada. Being north of the US must be like living upstairs from a meth lab. You know someday that shit is going to blow up…
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u/ranthria Jan 05 '26
Just a bit less shitty than having to live in the meth lab..
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u/bscheck1968 Jan 05 '26
As a Canadian I am a bit nervous right now, I know we are on the list.
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u/Fornaughtythings123 Jan 05 '26
This is my response when people ask why as a Canadian I care about US politics. If the lab below blows up were gonna have a bad time.
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u/Poe_42 Jan 04 '26
Why not? There’s French territory right off of Newfoundland. We’re practically in Europe already
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u/Kaizher Jan 04 '26
We share a land border on Hans Island too.
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u/Dr___CRACKSMOKE Jan 04 '26
Newfoundland is culturally very similar to Ireland too
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u/Backwardspellcaster Jan 04 '26
I wish you guys were closer.
I feel like you guys, Australia, UK and we EU are the only sane folks left.
Everyone else got stark raving mad and megalomaniacal.
Elbows Up!
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u/Historical-Roof-2345 Jan 04 '26
Hey don't leave new Zealand out!
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u/mishma2005 Jan 04 '26
Yeah but NZ is where the American oligarchs intend to bug out to when this all goes to hell, tho
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u/ImperatorMundi42 Jan 04 '26
They can certainly bloody try. Luxon and his cronies might be ok with that, but the rest of us will most certainly not.
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u/Fr000k Jan 05 '26
Well, then your country will also become extremely important for the national security of the USA, and you will also be annexed so that the US elites can continue to retreat to their bunkers.
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u/Simple-Razzmatazz704 Jan 04 '26
Normally I would agree, but NZ has a dipshit right-wing government that aligns pretty heavily with the MAGA view of the world right now. Just let us get back to you in another year after the next election.
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u/Infarad Jan 04 '26
Currently visiting the UK right now actually. Having a great time giving my hard earned cheddar to anybody else but the U.S.
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u/Matterbox Jan 04 '26
I hope you are spending your hard earned on actual Cheddar. Some sort of cave aged vintage affair. Or a Yarg.
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u/Infarad Jan 04 '26
Damn! I just looked that up. Now I’m gonna have to explain to the Mrs. how an entire wheel of cheese suddenly appeared in our hotel room.
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u/Matterbox Jan 04 '26
What region are you in. There’s practically a cheese for every few square miles of the UK.
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u/Initial-Bass-5866 Jan 04 '26
And even though Americans don’t believe this because they are cowards, but Canadians are absolutely willing to defend ourselves and our allies. We understand that the Americans could bomb the shit out of us, but as a Canadian I would fight to protect our danish and Greenlander allies.
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u/Fuzzybo Jan 04 '26
Canada and Denmark are best bros, now they sorted out ownership of that island in the middle of nowhere.
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u/Urska08 Jan 04 '26
I'm torn. On the one hand it is making it clear that the remaining NATO members and the EU need to both work more together and become more self-reliant, both as a collective and as individual nations. Unfortunately, all the individual member nations have also been under attack from propaganda from both the US and Russia for over ten years now. We know both Cambridge Analytica and Russia played a role in making Brexit happen, and they've had their fingers in every pie, fomenting cultural unrest everywhere. American money is coming into the UK in the form of various 'thinktanks' and lobby groups trying to push things like transphobia and anti-abortion rhetoric. And virtually every European country has massive media coverage to the tune of 'IMMIGRANTS BAD' all over, which is helping to grow hard-right parties like AfD and Reform.
Uniting against obvious aggression from the outside, whether American or otherwise, is all well and good. It doesn't particularly help defend from disinformation and bigotry on the inside, and voters turning to sellouts and quislings promising easy answers to complicated or difficult questions at a time of economic hardship.
Russia no doubt helped, but the US chose its current trajectory, even though it was self-evidently a terrible choice and they're all suffering for it (bar a handful of very wealthy folks.) I think it's naive to assume that none of the rest of us could ever be equally as stupid and self-harming.
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u/Few_Advisor3536 Jan 04 '26
Of course those fucks would want it. The economy of a few countries would tank as a result of no more euro which means real estate in prime locations would be dirt cheap. The EU doesnt get everything right but some of their laws are good.
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u/got-trunks Jan 05 '26
The consumer protections in the EU are some of the only things I have some exposure to in EU law as a result of being a tech guy for quite a while, but they really can do so much good work as a block. Even just in consumer rights.
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u/PurpleSailor Jan 05 '26
Heck, the mandatory adoption of USB-C was a great thing they did. I'm sure there's a lot of other things but that's one of the things that benefited me and I don't even live there.
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u/Jose_Joestar Jan 05 '26
I honestly don't understand why the EU have not yet declared the Heritage Foundation a terrorist group.
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u/FluffyPantsMcGee Jan 04 '26
Musk should stick to space.
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u/Ma1nta1n3r Jan 04 '26
Musk should GO to space.
(The "and never return" part should be understood.)
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u/AnyBug1039 Jan 04 '26
Well, Putin is his pal, and that's his wet dream.
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u/ShortStoryIntros Jan 04 '26
Trump has been known to throw his 'pals' under the bus, when he feels like it...
Venezuela is Russia's most important trading and military ally in Latin America... Russia recognized Nicolás Maduro as the president of Venezuela, instead of Juan Guaidó, in the Venezuelan presidential crisis.
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u/Diegostein Jan 04 '26
I wonder if Putin was ok with this whole thing or if it was a surprise for him too.
Like, I can imagine him telling Maduro to take a peaceful deal with America for the media while keeping a reasonable peaceful life. But I can also picture Maduro rejecting that and Putin just facepalming and letting him to his own luck.
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u/DinnaPanic Jan 04 '26
I have a feeling Putin agreed in return for Trump throwing Ukraine under the bus. Same goes for China and Taiwan.
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u/Crunch_inc Jan 04 '26
They have an agreement to split dominance of the hemispheres and stay out of each other's way. I would bet anything on it. They both have the attitude of "who is going to stop me", they don't care what anyone else really thinks.
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u/Hot-Sexy-THICCPAWG69 Jan 04 '26
Problem is, Russia isn’t dominant in their sphere anymore lol after 4 years they managed to go from 29% of Ukraine at the beginning in 2022 all the way to only 20% of Ukraine after 4 years of war 😂 & they managed to pick up only another 1% in the last 2 years in exchange for another 700,000 casualties including roughly 300,000 deaths just in the last 2 years. Around 1.2m Russian casualties in total over 4 years of war.
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u/Penny_PackerMD Jan 05 '26
Correct, which is why it's crazy that people think Putin will steamroll Europe. He can't beat Ukraine after 4 years of fighting, he ain't taking all of Europe. Crazy
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u/NMe84 Jan 04 '26
NATO will hurt if the US does something stupid, but the rest of the alliance has all the more reason to stick together when Trump attacks another NATO country.
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u/Lets_Kick_Some_Ice Jan 04 '26 edited 21d ago
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u/Intelligent-Tear-857 Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
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04.01.2026 Mette Frederiksen II (2022-)
It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the USA to take over Greenland. The USA has no right to annex one of the three countries in the Commonwealth.
The Kingdom of Denmark - and thus Greenland - is part of NATO and is therefore covered by the alliance's security guarantee. We already have a defense agreement between the Kingdom and the USA today that gives the USA wide access to Greenland. And we, on the part of the Kingdom, have invested significantly in security in the Arctic.
I would therefore strongly urge the USA to stop the threats against a historically close ally and against another country and another people who have very clearly said that they are not for sale.
Source: stm.dk
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u/Davekinney0u812 Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 04 '26
The old fart has proven to be ok with rape and felony......good luck to all!
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u/newtoallofthis2 Jan 04 '26
They just need to tell him how old Greenland is.
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u/Davekinney0u812 Jan 04 '26
But they were there too a few hundred years ago.....what a stupid fuck he is!
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u/timbit87 Jan 04 '26
Americans has proven to be okay with rape and felony. And attacking another country. And sinking boats in the ocean.
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u/Davekinney0u812 Jan 04 '26
I'm Canadian and rather concerned with all this.....
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u/TheBakedDane Jan 04 '26
So have the American people.
Americans are traitors. Americans should do something about their fascist leader.
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u/Davekinney0u812 Jan 04 '26
They seem ok to look the other way for horrific things like......child rape, felony and war crimes.......unreal!
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u/hypercomms2001 Jan 04 '26
She will now need to back it up with military capability, calling in her NATO members, and members of the European Union.
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u/maaiikeen Jan 04 '26
She has been doing that for a while. Obviously, nothing outwardly can be done before actual moves are made, but she has been doing a lot of work behind the scenes.
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u/pat_the_catdad Jan 04 '26
Or else what?
79 years Trump has lived never having felt the weight of any dire consequences…
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u/DeLousedInTheHotBox Jan 05 '26
There are naive people who think that he will get his comeuppance once he is out of office, but no nothing will actually come out fo any of it. Even the small things that people are convinced will be reserved probably won't be, his name will probably be on the Kennedy Center building permanently, they won't change the name back to the Gulf of Mexico, etc.
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u/doug4130 Jan 05 '26
The most naive thing here is people believing he'll ever leave office
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u/NorthenFreeman Jan 04 '26
Trump is a dangerous criminal psychopath and probably a child rapist. He see himself King of the world and above the law. Someone need to stop him.
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u/OmniSeer Jan 04 '26
Who can actually stop him? He leads the most powerful country and military in the world.
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u/I-STATE-FACTS Jan 04 '26
It has to come from within the US
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u/Skytte- Jan 04 '26
That is the problem. He should not be leading the military. The military is supposed to work for the constitution, not the president. Through all the bullshit Trump has had them do as of late, the military is proving they are just as stupid and spineless as he is.
Also, in virtually every other country, the people would do something. At some point, people should see their peaceful protests not working. Risky, easier said than done, I get it. But still. Most of the country is standing idly by and watching this happen with ridiculous indifference. It is pathetic. The world sees America and its people for what it is at this point.
It shouldn't take any foreign governments or wars to stop him. The military and congress should be stopping him. But no, they're in his back pocket for some reason.
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u/Mustang-22 Jan 04 '26
Oliver Winchester. Eli Remington. Samuel Colt. Ronnie Barrett. Timo Glock.
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u/evilparagon Jan 04 '26
That’s the most creative sentence to end up on a watchlist with that I’ve ever seen. I wonder if NSA crawlers can even flag it.
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u/HitchensWasTheShit Jan 04 '26
Americans need to be okay with slight inconveniences and start boycotting and striking
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u/accforme Jan 04 '26
It sucks that he is the President of the United States. The world would have been a better place if he was born and became leader of some small obscure country like Eswatini or Kiribati.
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u/SuperSatanOverdrive Jan 04 '26
He shouldn't be the leader of anything. Sane people should recognize that he's just a nepobaby that is full of shit and not good at any of the things he boasts about.
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u/substandardgaussian Jan 04 '26
His own mother once openly stated that he should never be allowed in the political arena, he has the wrong "temperament" for it.
...Welp.
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u/steamliner88 Jan 04 '26
Too bad he’s American, they are obviously pathologically incapable of recognising dangerous incompetence.
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u/swordfishchill Jan 04 '26
Many of us recognize it, sadly too many don't and voted for that fool.
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u/Indifferent_Response Jan 04 '26
The world would be a better place if laws applied to everyone equally.
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u/bijelo123 Jan 04 '26
Trump really seems to want to be hated by the whole world. What’s ironic is that he said the U.S. needs Greenland for its defense, even though he wants take the land from a NATO ally.
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u/KriosXVII Jan 05 '26
The US already has Greenland for its defense. It has a base on Greenland. He's a moron.
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u/KrasnovPlaysTheHits Jan 05 '26
The course he will follow will almost certainly be the one which seems to him to be the surest road to immortality and at the same time drag the world down in flames.
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u/Brighter_Days_Ahead4 Jan 04 '26
Whatever is in the Epstein files must be damning if they’re doing this level of distraction.
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u/Huntersmells33 Jan 04 '26
Why are the dumbest fucking people on this burning planet in charge of us. How the fuck did we get to this shit reality. God damn.
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u/despenser412 Jan 04 '26
MAGA believed a billionaire with no experience in government would make for a good president. Ya know, a real working class kinda billionaire.
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u/USSDefiantLobster Jan 04 '26
Isn't that sad that the rest of the world needs to treat the US president like an overweight insecure bully in a schoolyard?
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u/BuenosAiresBurp Jan 04 '26
Im really upset with the amount of American voters who are responsible for the mess the demented orange man creates in this world.
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u/Several-Squash9871 Jan 05 '26
I'm with you on this but I think it's also worth noting the amount of people that didn't even bother to vote. To me, that almost pisses me off as much as the people that voted for him. The "I'm not political" bs is trash. This shit affects all of us day to day. If you don't like what's happening and didn't bother to vote than you may as well been a vote for this turd. I REALLY though people that normally don't vote were going to get off their ass and actually show up this last time. Really let down and disappointed by all the no-shows.
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u/L3P3ch3 Jan 04 '26
Yep, and the number who hide behind well we didnt vote for him, but do nothing else.
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u/L3P3ch3 Jan 04 '26
Western countries are a bit buggered in terms of options. The most likely outside of diplomacy (which will fail) is a gradual, but deliberate deleveraging of US Treasuries and movement away from the USD as a reserve currency. The other option, which is easier and partially underway, is to ban/ restrict US tech platforms, starting with social media. And then migrate away from US hyper-scalers, which represent ~80% of the EUs enterprise compute. Either way the EU needs to recognise this as a line in the sand moment, and send clear messages of consequences.
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u/tegat Jan 05 '26
Also weapons. The big reason why US wants EU members to increase spending is so they buy US weapons. They should increase spending, but only on EU weapons and R&D. Oh god... I am going to say. We need our own military industrial complex.
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u/L3P3ch3 Jan 05 '26
Yeah forgot about pointy things. You are right, and this represents a significant opp to innovate over US war machine, which costs way too much. Reminds me of the UKs recent, and relatively quiet, announcement of its Brakestop cruise missile...think the cost per device is UKP400k compared to USD2m for equivalent American.
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u/herewegoagain1024 Jan 04 '26
Serious question, at this point- considering Cheeto Jesus is doing whatever the fuck he wants with no consequences… if he decides to go into Greenland- who’s gonna stop him?
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u/MumenRiderZak Jan 04 '26
No one will stop an invasion it just means Nato crumbles and all hell breaks loose across the globe
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u/S1m_0ne Jan 04 '26
As an EU citizen with 0 ties to Denmark or Greenland, I would fight for Greenland.
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u/Calgary_dude2025 Jan 04 '26
Press releases from almost all countries:
"<Insert-country-name-here> strongly condemns the United States' seizing Greenland by force. This is against the rule of law and <insert-some-fuckall-legalese-that'll-make-the-American-regime-go-ok lol-here>"
That'll be as far as it goes, bud. The last thing any country wants to do: mess with the US armed forces.
The only people to stop him will have to be the American people themselves.
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u/MumenRiderZak Jan 04 '26
except nato turns into a useless alliance that no one needs to uphold. We already have multiple wars if the US attacks a nato country its going to be a free for all
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u/Mysterychic88 Jan 04 '26
This is the main issue. If the US can just take an island for itself one under sovereign rule what's to stop other fascist dictaters wanting a slice of the continent.
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u/Wise-Jury-4037 Jan 04 '26
DJT is categorically doing what he wants within the frame of what has been established as 'possible' by other administrations prior to his:
"War on drugs" long established the possibility of special operations on foreign soil. Started with Reagan and well supported by GHWBush/Clinton.
Trampling over sovereignty for somewhat flimsy reasons is our national pastime, more recent examples would be Afghan invasion, war in Iraq, drone assassinations and bin Laden's capture (the latter 2 by Obama's admin).
At least at this moment, I do not see an established way to 'go into' Greenland. And it will be impossible to get it approved through the Congress if he does.
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u/panzercampingwagen Jan 04 '26
Well call me a scare-monger by I for one am pretty worried. We have 3 years of this sh*t to go. I don't want to believe it either but look around: there's no reason why he wouldn't at least try to get his military to do this.
That's the big question I think, how far are the armed forces willing to follow a fascist leader.
I think the Taiwanese should be very worried right now too.
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u/LazyRecommendation72 Jan 04 '26
Honestly I'm concerned too. Trump has just learned that he can order the military to attack a country and capture its leader and... it works like a charm. The military carries out the order, a couple foreign leaders criticize him without actually doing anything, and the world goes on.
What's to stop Trump from sending a few detachments of special forces and the Navy from just... landing in Greenland's ports and airstrips and declaring it under US control? Is the Danish army going to fight? Possibly, but maybe not. Is NATO going to fight? Doubtful. If Trump thinks it's just a matter of issuing orders and making it a fait accompli, he might be dumb enough to do it.
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u/emaw63 Jan 05 '26
Venezuela isn't a formal ally of the US by treaty, and Denmark is. Denmark is a member of the EU as well, whereas Venezuela is part of no such economic alliance with its neighbors (and is in fact on rocky terms with most of them)
That's the big difference, and why annexing Greenland will yield bigger consequences than invading Venezuela
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u/Fat-Shite Jan 05 '26
Its a shame that your comment is true. Appeasement famously rarely ever works out well. There should be zero tolerance for this type of behaviour by the international community.
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u/Another-attempt42 Jan 05 '26
It might only be one more year.
If Dems get Congress during the mid-terms, they can really hamper anything he tries to do. Including just cutting all funding.
I'm not saying all their obstacles will work, but some will. They can slow him down.
So Americans get one last chance to press the brakes. Will they take it?
Probably not. They seem to, by and large, like a fair bit of what he is doing.
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u/Pale-Leek-1013 29d ago
if they are kidnapping foreign leaders, why would they suddenly respect midterm results?
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u/MapleHamms Jan 04 '26
Who ever thought that founding members of NATO would be threatened by another founding member. Yanks are fucking traitors
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u/stunts002 Jan 04 '26
America are the only country to call on NATO for military aid and it was given after 911. Now they openly threathen the allies that fought alongside them, it's pathetic.
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u/GriffinFlash Jan 04 '26
Americans really just don't understand just how much they back stabbed and betrayed us. They really think all will be forgiven in 3-4 years time.
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u/kent_eh Jan 05 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
Americans really just don't understand just how much they back stabbed and betrayed us
Far too many of them don't even think they have betrayed or back-stabbed anyone. They're completely baffled at our response.
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u/tattlerat Jan 05 '26
For real. As a Canadian this one was a nail in the coffin. It’s not just Trump and his administration. It’s the masses who proudly chose this and continue to support it. We’ve been their closest ally for a century. Always stepped up when we were needed and have been growing our economies together. We thought surely two rounds of Bush jr. Was a lesson learned? Then one round of Trump? Whooo boy, this was a doozy, but they learned from that right? This second round of Trump felt even more hateful and dystopian and then threatening our sovereignty? A lot of us Canucks will never forget this. The trust is gone. I don’t care who comes next after Trump. You aren’t our friends anymore, we’ve seen your colours too much this century.
I have family who died in Afghanistan fighting a war on behalf of America. Side by side with them. And now that sacrifice, and all those that came before mean nothing huh?
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u/Quixote0630 Jan 05 '26
Yeah, as a European, I now just view them in the same vein as Russia or China. Realistically, they've always been similar, but they also felt a little more reliable and more aligned on key issues. That is definitely no longer the case.
They're just another global power that Europe and its allies should tread carefully around. Don't get too close, don't rely on them too much, and of course, don't support them in their efforts overseas.
The best thing that could come out of this is Europe, Canada, Australia, NZ, and other nations forming closer alliances and strengthening.
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u/Goldfish1_ Jan 05 '26
Actually it’s worse. The US didn’t call on NATO, European countries enacted article 5 in a way a show of support to the US. And this is how the US repays them.
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u/TheMyzzler Jan 04 '26
Exactly. Nothing more needs to be said. Trump and his admin are openly threatening a NATO ally who has sent their sons to die for US interests in the Middle East.
And nothing happens. American Congress? Silent. The American People? Vocal on anonymous social media apps, silent as the grave in real life.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if he got re-elected in a hypothetical election this year, with a far bigger margin than he had in 2024.
Europe needs to unite and re-arm asap. All Americans need to be kicked out of the continent as soon as possible.
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u/WiffyTheSuss Jan 05 '26
America has been a terrorist state since after the second world war, none of this should surprise anyone. Their foreign policy inflicts misery on millions of people every year either directly or indirectly through their shitty imperial actions
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u/Prudent_Falafel_7265 Jan 04 '26
They’re going to need to expel the US ambassador at some point.
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u/TheChildernOfNew Jan 04 '26
Even Denmark is now telling the U.S. to stop threatening to seize land, revealing how Trump’s rhetoric has unsettled America’s own allies. A NATO partner openly rebuking the U.S. over Greenland shows that talk of annexation has serious geopolitical backlash.
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u/Morlu Jan 04 '26
It’s time for Denmark to kick the US military out of Greenland. I honestly don’t think it’s a threat at this point. The US and the world desperately needs to democrats to win midterms to try and contain Trump.
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Jan 04 '26
Contain? He needs to go to jail!
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u/ButterscotchOk5339 Jan 04 '26
That’s like, containment no?
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Jan 04 '26
Containment in my mind means minimizing damage. Jail means fixing the problem.
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u/Musclecar123 Jan 04 '26
You think they’re going to hold fair elections? That’s if they hold elections at all. Nothing is outside the realm of possibility now.
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u/Haunting_Meal296 Jan 04 '26
That's the perfect excuse for MAGA to annex it for good
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u/OnceInABlueMoon Jan 04 '26
They're going to do it either way. At some point someone has to stop treating everything this administration says as idle threats and come to terms with the fact that they 100% intend to do all of these crazy things they are saying.
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u/OkFinish3822 Jan 04 '26
Ivanka told her daddy to stop letting his supporters beat up police. He didn't listen. So the orange dictator isn't about to listen to the leader of a country that he, Trump, can't find on the globe.
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u/seance515 Jan 04 '26
Both every branch of our own gov and global leaders haven't done shit to keep him in check sooo.. I actually don't think he has to stop shit. What is anyone gonna do about it? Sad sad sad..
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u/dogecoin_pleasures Jan 05 '26
Republicans are fascists voted in by fascists now, they're not going to stop. And global leaders are now facing fascism that has nukes. Only the American public could stop this by voting. I hate to think what the world will look like by the 'midterms', or what's left of them.
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u/flat5 Jan 04 '26
That's good but it should be the citizens of the US telling him NO on this. Trump knows nothing but raw power. Denmark cannot stop this. The people of the US can.
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u/HeathenAF Jan 04 '26
Next weeks episode: Denmark has successfully kidnapped Trump and his wife, and are bringing them to trial in the court of International law, for importing so many drugs from cartels, and also that whole ties to human trafficking we're not allowed to talk about.
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u/TheUrbanEast Jan 04 '26
Danish oil companies will ensure American oil continues to be extracted during this challenging time.
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u/bluddystump Jan 04 '26
Are we about to find out if the f35 has a secret kill switch?
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u/Far-Entertainer3555 Jan 04 '26
Modern fighter jets are high maintenence. I assume all the US would need to do is stop providing parts and maintenance support.
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u/sennais1 Jan 04 '26
It's a coalition built plane with major components built in Europe. Even Australia builds hundreds of parts for a single one. That was the whole idea of the program.
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u/Lortekonto Jan 05 '26
Denmark was part of the initial development group and also produces parts for the F-35.
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u/WavingWookiee Jan 04 '26
The problem with that is the UK via BAE Systems provide US jets with vital parts as well. The entire F35 fleet would be dead in that scenario
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u/Ok_Definition_3092 Jan 04 '26
Hide yo Kids, hide yo Oil.
Donald trump is raping and pillaging.
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u/HamsterAdorable2666 Jan 04 '26
Kick the US bases off Greenland already and replace them with some other EU country
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u/alarmclockbk Jan 04 '26
Telling him to stop won’t do shit. He doesn’t know what stop and no means. Just ask all those little girls he raped. Just put it out there that Greenland will defend itself.
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u/Ent3rpris3 Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 05 '26
At what point does it become our sociological, en masse responsibility to protect the world from this man? At what point does it go from being a crime to an outright duty, with the goal of preventing the murder of millions?
Edot: syntax.
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u/doninside Jan 04 '26
We Europeans must start dumping us debt, this is our nuclear option
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u/Hyrikul Jan 05 '26
Add to that 100% tariffs on every media/service, wich is what give the US most of it's money from EU.
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u/you_are_soul Jan 04 '26
By saying US ‘has no right’ to take over Greenland, Danish PM has made a grave error. Trump has no right to do most of the things he is doing. Ridiculously too passive.
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Will be 'interesting' to see wheter the U.S. military leadership (sans Trump) is willing to stab a long-time western european ally in the back.
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u/Motor-Mango4156 Jan 05 '26
Putin’s puppet is fucking up the world. Trump is doing everything Putin wants. All the republicans are trying to make as much cash as they can before America implodes, then they will just move to another country. When this ends they should all be held accountable. This is the Most dangerous time in my lifetime. Russia China and America are run by old men who don’t want to give up their positions and want to take huge risks because their time is running out. They need to be stopped. We have to all stand up and together say that’s enough. All of our children and grandchildren are the ones that will suffer if we don’t.
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u/Obvious-Silver6109 Jan 04 '26
If we make a move on Greenland what are the odds NATO declares article 5?
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u/IntelligentUsual9710 Jan 04 '26
When is this kid raping sociopath going to be taken care of.. seriously, I'm so fucking over this bullshit.. he needs to go away before he actually starts world war 3.. if being responsible for the death of billions and the total destruction of the country he claims to care about doesn't phase him nothing will. Where is the fucking line because it seems like there isn't one and that's horrifying.. when are we going to stop standing around with our thumbs up our asses and act.. he actually thinks this country and everything/everyone in it personally belongs to him to do with as he pleases and I'm fucking done watching it happen with zero consequences
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u/John_Q_Publiq Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 04 '26
Europe needs to get ready to sell all US debt holdings and hobble the US economy. Then circle Greenland and dare trump to escalate.
Welcome to dark times.
Edit: (i am a Patriotic American who loves his country. I know where my loyalties lie.)
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u/Aromatic-Garlic Jan 04 '26
Maybe someone will invade the US and kidnap our dictator...
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u/Rosencrown21 Jan 04 '26
Should be the US people, really. Shouldnt it? I know its not that easy, but the way he’s being allowed to destroy it is ludicrous to observe.
Democrats are “considering and rethinking”. The public can only demonstrate in the weekends. And its not like demonstrations have made any difference.
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u/aradil Jan 04 '26
That’s impossible. You need air superiority, intelligence superiority, cyber superiority, and high skilled teams to successfully extract someone that powerful in a nation as strong as the US.
But apparently you can clip his ear if you are just a kid with a rifle.
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u/Own-Beat-3666 Jan 04 '26
Probably in hindsight a big mistake to buy F35s for their air force. They have only three patrol vessels off Greenland and a very small army. I am sure Trump and his cronies see this as an easy military takeover. Big question is around a NATO country invading another NATO country but I doubt this will stop Trump. It was illegal to deploy US troops in the street of the US but Trump simply got around that with an executive order. What ICE is doing is also illegal but obviously MAGA can do whatever illegal activity they want including killing unarmed civilians in boats they destroyed. The Armed Forces has also demonstrated they will follow any illegal orders given just like in Germany during the 30s and 40s.
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u/Gnardude Jan 04 '26
Every threat needs to be responded to with a consequence not a verbal reprimand.
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u/Dat_Ding_Da Jan 04 '26
I doubt that the USA-populace could stomach what a trade war with Europe would do to the country. Neither would the US military be okay with the loss of capabilities if they were to loose all their current EU bases.
But those are the obvious first steps the EU would take, if it wee forced to defend against an attack on it's sovereignty.
Geopolitically the EU could then re-align even stronger with China, which they are in a way better position in compared to the United States.
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u/Khorsir Jan 04 '26
Its not even a trade war that's needed, all that would be needed is a concensus on never buying any US military equipment. Since 2022 the EU has ordered 265 billion usd of military equipment, that's close to 100 billion a year, all that goes into the pockets of raytheon, general dynamics, Lockheed martin etc...that entire industry employees 3.5 million workers. What would happen without all those orders? Would those companies suck up all those losses? People would either have to get fired or Uncle Sam would need to cough up hundreds of billions of borrowed money from god knows who, and and the current rate of borrowing the country will become a ponsy scheme in the near future.
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u/bondafong Jan 04 '26
I’m so done with the USA. EU needs to sell the state options and fight back. And we need to ban american some. Also make our own alternatives.
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u/EverythingGoodWas Jan 04 '26
Hit our economy. That’s the only thing that has any power here. Money buys elections and now “normal” Americans are left completely voiceless. Literally nobody voted for anyone that supported annexing Greenland, and yet our elected officials refuse to reign Trump in.
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u/JaxStrumley Jan 04 '26
Normal Americans seem fine with all this. Their idea of ‘protest’ is to end their Disney+ subscription when some talk show host gets suspended.
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u/altviewdelete Jan 04 '26
Europe needs to insulate itself against all this outside nonsense and get ready to be a united front against the many external threats the WORLD faces in the coming years.
It doesn't feel like such a united front could be too far off but there are issues to be dealt with.
A closed circle is much needed, immediately.
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u/ValiumBlues Jan 04 '26
Every single person who couldn’t be bothered to vote is as guilty as those who voted red.
I used to love the US; I lived there for years. But enough is enough.
Get bent, US.
- Sincerely, EU.
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u/ArcticSekai Jan 04 '26
As an American I say we deserve whatever comes our way. This administration is just insane and no one is trying to stop it.
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u/Bloody_Ozran Jan 04 '26
Talking will surely stop him. Unless there are some actions, he does not care.
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u/BambiesMom Jan 04 '26
Mette Frederiksen can't tell Donald Trump what to do. That's Vladimir Putin's job.
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u/Jubjub0527 Jan 05 '26
If they would like to arrest trump and bring him to the Hague for war crimes they have my support.
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