Trump says the U.S. will take control of Greenland 'one way or the other'
Trump says the U.S. will take control of Greenland 'one way or the other'
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Trump says the U.S. will take control of Greenland 'one way or the other'
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That sounds like a declaration of war
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A threat of war, sure. But you don't declare war like that clip of "declaring" bankruptcy. Even with all the wars the US has started, the last one declared was in 1942. Until Congress formally declares war, or troops start to move in, it's still just a threat.
That said, it is a threat that everyone should take very seriously.
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Well then the concept of declaration of war you're presenting is worth jack shit since the US has ravaged countries for decades after 1942
All it means is that congress' approval is not needed to wage war, so this threat is way closer to a declaration than what you estimate
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This is true, but I'm unclear on what the last authorization of force -- that was hastily passed by Congress during whatever crisis or whatever lull between crises preemptively -- authorizes the prezzy to do without a war declaration.
Congress has continually abdicated its position as a co-equal branch of government.
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This asshole is the kind of bumbling cartoonishly psychotic politician you read about on surviving pre-bomb terminals in Fallout.
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I read a reaction from a Greenlandic politician. He was mostly upset about the laugh track that followed Trump saying "incredible people".
Watch the clip again if you didn't notice.
It's perfectly reasonable that they don't want to be addressed like that. The politician went on to call it an "unacceptable human view".
I agree. The act of the middle school bully doesn't translate into anything remotely strong or respectable. It's just disgusting. It doesn't matter who or what they're talking about, and when presenting themselves by giggles and eye-rolling, they're really only presenting their own insecurity by hiding their disgusting views in the support of a laugh track.
I am from Denmark, which actually colonized Greenland. We have made mistakes and treated them badly in the past for sure, but never like that. We have never laughed in their faces when doing so.
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Trump is a Russian asset. Americans have become the taliban of the West.
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🌍🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
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Ukraine was the Sudetenland, but I didn't expect like this.
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Danish special forces are watching you...
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Who do you think trained them?
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The danish military. Side note, the USA does their cold weather training in Norway in terrain that local civilians ski/hike recreationally, and in temperatures that are significantly higher than those in Greenland. You are right that there is an exchange of expertise in NATO, but it's the Scandinavians that do the training when it comes to cold weather / mountain warfare. The USA's specialty is urban counterinsurgency and bombing Africans.
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You know, you could always just buy their raw materials.
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The United States of America is a rogue state.
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Greenland isn’t for sale, and coercion isn’t diplomacy. This will backfire internationally.
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at this point, that seems to be the goal
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War on the continent and suspended elections.
Seems petty obvious.
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I got bone spurs though.
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Yo britain, you wanna rule the waves again? Now is your time to take back the rebbel colonies
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Sounds like the king of clowntown has been looking at a Mercator projection again. It's an easy mistake for people who don't know what they're talking about to make.
I stole this from reddit:
And this interest in Greenland smacks of the game of "Risk", which might be the basis of his foreign policy.
I'm which case, he should mass forces on New Zealand.
It's still, like, a quarter of the US landmass (eyeball measurement), which is big
The total area of Greenland is 2.1 million km², but where other countries have usable land and maybe some lakes, Greenland has 1.7 million km² of ice. There's some land under there, but much less than you might think:
:::::: spoiler Topographic map of Greenland (Wikipedia)
The US has 9.1 million km² of actual land, so if we're counting the ice, a quarter is about right.
It's still a very large peice of land.
This has interesting maps https://youtu.be/rCBt4XgCX-0
He's said "very very".
Looks like it's maybe the size of Florida? Is that about right? I'll go look it up sometime when I have the time time time time time time time time time time time time time time.