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[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is not a toddler, this is a guy bigger than you and with lots of guns and friends. Talking is our only option, especially because it means we can also go against the narrative that Denmark cannot defend Greenland.

Which is true in isolation, but that's why we're in NATO and the joint arctic command and have the 1951 deal with the US that you guys can scale up military presence in Greenland at will. Yet it hadn't happened in 20 years, only reductions.

Personally I think we should have gone more into how Biden refused to increase the defense of the arctic region within the agreement, give the trumpists a way to call him names and solve the issue within the agreements we have.

Still, Lars Løkke has been doing the rounds on Fox News and elsewhere to give our perspective, which could influence public opinion and help change the false narratives being spread in the US. From our perspective we had everything to gain from a meeting and very little to lose.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Even if biden had done all that, musk would have undone it for his orange god

[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That's not the point, though. The point is to try and change the narrative to be more, shall we say, fact-based. And maybe talk to someone less mental than Trump.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Good luck finding anyone like that with enough pull to matter

[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 1 points 2 hours ago

Well, that's what our people did yesterday. Even if Vance is a piece of shit he's not deranged like Trump, and Rubio is also someone you can have a productive discussion with as a foreign nation provided, of course, that the racist grandpa in charge of your nation calms down for a second and stops posting lies about Greenland every 30 minutes.