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Trump's US Threat to Greenland (which belongs to Denmark)

Tom Dans, American Daybreak, appears to be the only one of 340 million Americans who is interested in the dogsled race!
Tom Dans on X, Mar 29, 2025
Congratulations to Henrik Jensen, the people of Ilulissat and all the participants on a great race!
That's a tight finish!
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Tom Dans on X, Mar 30, 2025
Greenland's National Dogsled Championship
- the 38th annual running of the Avannaata Qimussersua today in Sisimiut, Greenland
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Gord_in_Toronto said:
Here's an analysis of the global effects Trump (and Vance) is having with his stated attitude toward Denmark and Greenland.

www.theguardian.com

Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder

Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking, says professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University
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'It was worse then a crime, it was a a mistake" as the saying goes.
 
I can't tell if this guy is serious or not. A year ago, I would have gone with satire, but in the last couple of months I have seen so many media and academic psychopaths online (e.g. Jesse Watters very recently) putting forth similar argument. There is also this YouTube short where he's wearing a MAGA hat and arguing like other members of the MAGA manosphere, so I think he's is probably serious when he delivers this argument for American manifest destiny in the case of Greenland:
Trump Is Right About Greenland - Why The US Must Act Now (Neoliberal Shill, Mar 30, 2025 - 24:12 min.)
13:07--> Now, I've talked about immigration on this channel before, I'vetalked about mass immigration, and it's a hot button issue on the right and it has destroyed many a town many a nation. It's even really damaging our nation, and so it seems kind of hypocritical for me to say, 'Well, yeah, we actually need mass immigration to Greenland.' But that's just the reality of the situation. I would hope that the United States, if they acquire Greenland, would only try to attract the best and the brightest upstanding white and blue collar workers to go to Greenland who will respect the local people. They won't cause crime, but even if it's a cohort of the most respectable, most intelligent whitepeople, you could possibly find in the United States that you ship over to Greenland, it's still going to have a detrimental effect on the local culture, right, because mass immigration is always going to do that. If we double the size of Greenland's population or triple or quadruple it it becomes a majority American versus majority indigenous Inuit Greenlander, then that's going to wipe out the local culture it's going to significantly change the character of Greenland, and the people are probably going to be unhappy about it.

Now, there's only 56,000 people that we have to worry about being unhappy and they seem to be a relatively peaceable people and they don't have a lot of firearms, so there's not really any chance that they could resist us. But this is just a pure real-politic reality that we need to be okay with: that by the United States buying Greenland or taking Greenland and developing it, it's going to destroy the native culture. But even still there could be unrest and contention between the local native population and the new arrivals and so you're going to need a strong police presence like the US military, because that's the last thing that you want is for the locals to become so fed up with the colonists that they end up doing industrial sabotage, attacking mining facilities, things like that.

Now, you hope that it would never get there but just to prevent those things from happening, you need a strong police presence, a strong military presence, to kind of quell any kind of instability, and only the US military could provide that. If we were to become close partners with Denmark and they allowed us to ship over tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of workers and there was instability and unrest, Denmark doesn't have the capacity to quell that, it would have to be the US military that deals with those issues, and so, if we're going to have a large military presence there anyway and we're going to destroy the local character of culture we may as well just adopt them into the United States so at least the people can benefit from that.
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One YouTube comment: "Neoliberal shill? More like Neoimperial shill!"
 
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Trumps regnestykker kan øge Grønlands ønske om selvstændighed (Politiken, April 2, 2025)
Det Hvide Hus er ved at udarbejde et skøn over, hvad det vil koste USA at tilbyde Grønland mere end Danmark gør i dag. Det kan blive dyrt for Danmark og understreger, at det amerikanske pres på rigsfællesskabet øges dag for dag, skriver USA korrespondent Jacob Fuglsang i denne analyse.
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Trump's calculations may increase Greenland's desire for independency
The White House is working on an estimate of what it will cost for the USA to offer Greenland more than what Denmark does today. It may become expensive for Denmark, and it emphasizes that the American pressure is increasing day by day, Jacob Fuglsang writes in this analysis.

It would be pretty cheap for the USA to do so. Neoliberal Shill, whom I quoted in post 643, is making a similar calculation in his video.
Even though Denmark's subsidies to Greenland helps Greenlanders survive as an independent country in the Danish Realm, it's not a huge amount of mony per capita, all things considered, and there aren't that many Greenlanders.
However, I wonder how it will be received in the USA if Trump starts buying Greenlandic votes while he is working on Making Americans Poorer Again.
 
The Danish parliament gets the giggles when they hear that ... (Instagram video)
It is from Folketinget, the Danish parliament, but I'm not sure that it's actually Trump they are listening to.
I don't think it is.
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It isn't!!!
It's a combination of two different things that aren't connected. I just saw the video here, too:
Morgenpost fra USA: I USA deles lige nu en video af Mette Frederiksen, der griner af Trumps Grønland-planer (DR.dk, April 2, 2025)
- Hun griner ikke af Trump, hun griner af to elefanter, som Danmark har købt, og den ene elefant har en ven, der er en kamel, beroligede jeg Alissa, der ikke så videre beroliget ud.
Morning mail from the USA: In USA, a video of Mette Frederiksen is being shared; she is laughing at Trump's plans for Greenland
- She is not laughing at Trump; she is laughing at two elephants bought by Denmark, and one of the elephants has a friend, a camel. I told Alissa* to calm her down, but she didn't look particularly calmed down.
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* Alissa is a cashier in a supermarket in New York. She is the one who told the Danish journalist about the video.
PM Mette Frederiksen was laughing at story about the elephants, in particular Ramboline, and the camel Ali back in 2019.

The clip is being used in different unrelated contexts, a little like the bunker scene with Hitler from the movie Downfall.
 
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Press conference in Greenland with the Danish PM, and both the former and the newly elected Greenlandic PMs - in Danish, Greenlandic and English:
‘You cannot annex another country,’ Danish PM tells US over Greenland (CNN, April 3, 2025)
Nuuk, GreenlandReuters — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called Thursday for increased Arctic defense collaboration with the United States during a visit to Greenland, and firmly dismissed the US desire to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
Frederiksen’s visit follows months of tension between Washington and Copenhagen over US President Donald Trump’s repeated declarations that the Arctic island should become part of the United States.
At a news conference with the outgoing [Múte B. Egede] and incoming [Jens-Frederik Nielsen] Greenlandic prime ministers, Frederiksen switched to English to address the United States directly, inviting them to strengthen security in the Arctic together with Denmark and Greenland.
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Live streaming:
Trump Greenland: Denmark & Greenland Leaders Hold Joint Press Conference | Trump News LIVE | N18G (CNN-News 18 on YouTube, April 3, 2025 - 3:50:10 h.)
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and incoming Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen hold press conference during Frederiksen’s visit to the Arctic island.
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'Nice island you got here' ... "maybe you'll see more and more soldiers going there."
A U.S. invasion of Greenland could actually happen (MSNBC, April 2, 2025)
I was once skeptical of Trump’s chatter about seizing Greenland — I'm not anymore.
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If you’d said to me three months ago that the United States could invade and occupy Greenland, I’d have likely checked your head for a tinfoil hat. But after Vice President JD Vance’s three-hour trip to a U.S. military base in Greenland, I’m starting to get concerned that Operation Arctic Freedom could be in the offing.
Vance’s brief sojourn to the autonomous territory, which is still part of the Kingdom of Denmark, was perhaps the most insane and inappropriate diplomatic foray ever conducted by an American official.
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In short, the message was: “Nice island you got here ... it’d be a shame if something happened to it.”
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And during a little-noted news conference in March with Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary general, Trump dismissed Denmark’s territorial claims to Greenland and said ominously, “We have a couple of bases on Greenland already, and we have quite a few soldiers that — maybe you’ll see more and more soldiers go there. I don’t know.” (italics added)
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Lil' Marco Rubio has strayed off the script, saying that the US doesn't want to annex Greenland and that it's up to the people of Greenland to decide what they want.

Which of course ignores trump's repeated statement about wanting to annex Greenland, and the recent electional result showing pretty clearly that the people of Greenland aren't interested in joining the US.
 
But it is in line with the U.S. strategy, which is to make the Greenlanders vote for independence first and then convince them that they need the USA for protection. In return for the mineral rights, like Ukraine, I assume.
Turmoil churns below the surface as Rubio meets NATO allies (Politico.eu, April 3, 2025)
Danish leader tells the US 'you cannot annex another country' as she visits Greenland (ABC News, April 4, 2025)
Denmark’s prime minister has told the U.S. during a visit to Greenland that “you cannot annex another country,” even with the argument that international security is at stake
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Rubio in hot seat as he faces European leaders at NATO headquarters (ABC News, April 4, 2025)
Disputes over tariffs and Greenland are poised to overshadow the meeting.
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By the way, as for Trump's 'the Danes have not been treating them well', I have referred to the way MAGA treats Puerto Ricans a couple of times:
Puerto Rico is a "floating island of garbage" (Sky News on YouTube, Oct 28, 2025 - 58 sec.)

But an even more apt comparison would be with the former Danish West Indies, now the U.S. Virgin Islands.
De bor i Danmarks tidligere slavekoloni: ’En undskyldning er ikke nok – Danmark bør hjælpe os’ (DR.dk, March 25, 2025)
- Selvom vi ved, hvad der foregik her for mange år siden, kan vi ikke være fulde af had, siger Winifred Loving.
Men hun savner alligevel en form for undskyldning fra Danmark – og ikke mindst et mere aktivt engagement fra dansk side i de tidligere kolonier.
- Det kunne for eksempel være støtte til et børnehospital. Vi har virkelig mange udfordringer herovre, fortæller hun og remser et par stykker op:
- Orkaner hærger ofte. De ødelægger infrastrukturen, men mange gange bliver det ikke fikset igen. Der mangler tilbud til børn efter skole, siger Winifred Loving.
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La Vaugnn Belle siger:
Der findes stadig spor efter slavetiden herovre. Vi har for eksempel brug for hjælp til at forbedre vores uddannelses- og sundhedssystem.
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They live in Denmark's former slave colony: 'An apology is not enough - Denmark should help us' (DR.dk, March 25, 2025)
- Even though we know what happened here many years ago, we cannot be full of hatred, says Winifred Loving.
But she still misses some kind of apology from Denmark - and not least a more active engagement from the Danish side in the former colonies.
- It could be support for a children's hospital, for example. We really have a lot of challenges over here, she says and lists a few: - Hurricanes often wreak havoc. They destroy the infrastructure, but many times it is not fixed again. There is a lack of after-school activities for children, says Winifred Loving.La Vaugnn Belle says:
There are still traces after slavery over here. For instance, we need help with improving our educational system and healthcare.
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They should consider voting for independence from the USA. It doesn't seem as if the Americans are treating them right. And then Denmark could help them with healthcare, education and infrastructure.
I think their demand is legit: The slave trade enriched many Danish families, not least the Danish Royal Family! I think it's only fair that those families should use their fortunes to help Virgin Islanders and other former slave colonies who have either been let down by the USA or left to cope on their own after independence.

I would have assumed that it was the responsibility of the USA to take care of the needs of the population of the U.S. Virgin Islands after the purchase of the former colony, but since that doesn't seem to be the case, Denmark should take over the islands and offer them the same conditions as Greenlanders, but only after a referendum, obviously.
The Virgin Islands have belonged to the USA for more than 100 years, and yet they still have problems with education and healthcare.
It's a disgrace!
 
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KDLarsen said:
Lil' Marco Rubio has strayed off the script, saying that the US doesn't want to annex Greenland and that it's up to the people of Greenland to decide what they want.

Which of course ignores trump's repeated statement about wanting to annex Greenland, and the recent electional result showing pretty clearly that the people of Greenland aren't interested in joining the US.
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But the MAGAS keep insisting that the people of Greenland love Trump, want to join the USA, and anything else is just the lying leftist media.
 
dudalb said:
But the MAGAS keep insisting that the people of Greenland love Trump, want to join the USA, and anything else is just the lying leftist media.
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And if they reject joining America in a referendum it was obviously rigged.
 
dudalb said:
But the MAGAS keep insisting that the people of Greenland love Trump, want to join the USA, and anything else is just the lying leftist media.
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Some of them actually do love Trump! The ones he pays to do so.
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And if they reject joining America in a referendum it was obviously rigged.
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And they're eating the dogs!
Sådan føles det at spise sin hund (Euroman.dk, Mar 6, 2017)
Hundekød på bordet (KNR.gl, Dec10, 2013)
Trump should send Kristi Noem the next time.
 
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The New Republic on X, April 6, 2025
On the very same day the tariffs hit, Danish shipping giant AP Møller-Maersk bought a railway connecting ports at either end of the Panama Canal—undermining Trump’s other imperialist plan.

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Denmark Just Took Hillbilly JD Vance to the Woodshed
From newrepublic.com
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Denmark Just Took Hillbilly JD Vance to the Woodshed - That was just about the worst vice presidential trip abroad ever (New Republic, April 3, 2025)

From the thread:
Bo Bøgvald on X, April 6, 2025
Economical Freedom index:

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Why was Denmark's score so low in the 90s ?

Nevermind, economic freedom so likely state ownership...
 
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dann said:
The Greenlanders haven't seen anything at all coming, according to Qupanuk, whom I've mentioned before. I don't know what it is they have seen at the Space Base.
As for the headline, remember that Qupanuk has always been adamant that Greenland should become independent from Denmark, the sooner the better. She is a member of Greenland's Independence Party, Qulleq (Wiki), and she is pretty unhappy with the recent election results (Wiki) where her party didn't get enough votes for a seat in parliament. In the polls (Wiki), they got only 1.1%; there are 31 seats in Greenland's parliament. They would have stood a much better chance of getting a seat (or even seats) without the U.S. interference.

As for the Chinese and Russian ships that Trump and Vance keep referring to, it has everything to do with MAGA's desire to own Greenland, but it has nothing at all to do with national or international security.

I'll get back to this, but in the meantime consider this: What do the Arctic region and the Panama Canal have in common? Only one thing, right?!
Russian and Chinese ships in the Panama Canal don't threaten the national security of the USA any more than Russian and Chinese ships in the Arctic. And they sure as hell don't threaten the security interests of Panama or Greenland. Trump's USA is the only one to do that.
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It looks like those behind Qulluq were in the long list of people who were full sure the leopards wouldn't eat their faces.
 
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