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American here. I'm sure annexing Greenland would be very useful to us for all kinds of reasons. I don't want to do it.
Unless the people in Greenland want to become part of the United States, I don't believe we have any more right to declare Greenland ours than Hitler had a right to declare France his, or Russia has a right to declare Ukraine theirs.
If the people of Greenland want to become part of the United States, verified with an election monitored by multiple disinterested third parties, then by all means welcome to the party guys.
However given the timing of this ridiculous idea, I can't help but think the whole thing is just a distraction from the Epstein files.
I see colonialism is back on the menu of Amerikkkans
Yeah, if we really need anything from it we should work with the Greenlandic people and the Danes to find a mutually agreeable solution. Annexing territories of allies is evil and fucking stupid.
A mutual solution to the problem the US created and which didn't exist before Trump.
Solution to what?
How very colonial of you.
Unless the people in California want to secede from the United States
I wonder how you USians would respond to that.
Californian here, I'd vote yes.
Can't we just fly Trump to a random ice covered rock and just hire some people to pretend it is Greenland and he can have a little senior assisted living situation inside Trump Castle in Newer New York City, Greenland safely isolated from the rest of us?
Surely he can't tell the difference between northern Alaska and Greenland
Aksala-Dnalneerg is the resource rich border region in the far tundras of the north between Alaska and Greenland, it is largely undeveloped because no real estate developer has had the proper vision for it yet (a great flat low expanse with easy access to water).
He can’t tell the difference between a sharpie marker and the NOAA.
Ironic, coming from you.
Awww, look! I have a little butthurt follower! How adorable!
This guy is following me on every comment and harassing me too.
Yeah. Dude’s a no-lifer. Checked their history, it’s pretty embarrassing.
What are you talking about?
It would be so dope to make him believe everyone around him pretends he's president, but he's actually not.
To make it more convincing, they could spray-paint some rocks green.
I say we fire him into the sun. A little extra helium and his intestinal discard for brains won’t hurt anything there- and I’d rather him not remain on this planet any longer than is necessary.
You know, I have had this thought nearly verbatim.
It’s actually really expensive to get things to the sun.
The easiest ice covered rock to get to from earth would be Europa. He might also confuse it with Greenland as an added bonus.
Yeah but he can't taint the sun.
Walls are closing in, eh, Donny?
it's going to be a global holiday when he dies
yeah but The Cowards who keep telling him to do this shit will still be alive. It's not like the man came up with this on his own.
Agreed. Trump is just a lightening rod that keeps everyone's outrage focused on him instead of people like Miller and Thiel.
Epstein distraction, again.
Tell me you're slacking off at your day job without telling me you're slacking off at your day job:
Landry, in a post on X, thanked Trump: "It's an honor to serve ... in this volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the U.S. This in no way affects my position as Governor of Louisiana!"
Yes this is a distraction - but we also need to remind ourselves that this shit isn't normal even if it weren't a distraction.
In the middle of the Clinton blow job scandal, Bill didn't go off saying New Brunswick needed to become a state to secure our national supply of bowling balls or some shit.
Trump can be making a distraction and also moving the Overton Window at the same time.
Germany needs to start cutting ties with the US so they can be on the right side for once.
The world tells Trump to Fuck Off.
Trump has to kiss my ass.
EU needs Greenland more than US due to security reasons.
US is the security reason
The demand has been made- we are going to see his little temper tantrum any day now.
It is like Trump already promised Alaska to Putin.
Just un-redact the Epstein files, you coward!
...and I want a pony..
He wants his grubby pedo hands on the resources under the ground in Greenland.
High cholesterol says it has to have trump.
Originality points for darts as military target selection, tho. 👌
You'd think so, but no. Project 2025 can be traced back through the heritage foundation to the Technocracy movement, which was a bunch of proto-tech bros like Elon's Grandpa
They thought they were the smartest little guys and so they should control all aspects of society. They wanted to carve the world up into economic zones, and they wanted America's to be from the Panama canal to the artic, including Greenland, so they could control shipping through the artic and across the Atlantic
They were really big about shipping lanes, which is why South Africa randomly comes up too