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The move follows an announcement by Denmark that it will increase its military presence in Greenland immediately.

After meeting with the US vice president and secretary of state, the Danish foreign minister said it was 'clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland.'

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[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hopefully mango man can read the room on this one and let it go. We don't need to start another war.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I highly doubt the idea for invading Greenland comes from him, but rather the people manipulating him who would perhaps benefit from the instability caused by a war between the US and EU.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This doesn't pass my smell test.

Sources who spoke to Reuters requested anonymity to discuss private conversations.

The vision for Greenland, one of the people said, could include a hub for artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, space launches, micro nuclear reactors and high-speed rail.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Undoubtedly.

The US Government's posturing, diplomatic and otherwise, for rights in the the Arctic and northern territories has been happening at least since the Obama administration. It's a recognition that climate change is going to make it feasible to mine and drill in these places that were previously inaccessible.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz -2 points 1 day ago

You are the one being manipulated, there are more than a thousand US military facilities in europe, these operations are to fool people like you into not complaining about wasting public money to boost military spending.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The entire point of this is to break up NATO and start a two front war against Europe by both the US and Russia. Didn't you get the memo?

[–] kozy138@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was just thinking the same thing. Where does that leave Canada? Do they join the EU or get eaten up by the US?

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago

Canada is a big well run country as opposed to the US which is flailing and failing at an astounding pace. US economic numbers are being obscenely cooked .

"....we’re seeing this new technique of the leaders of these companies — the investors, owners, CEOs — are now able to make money even if the companies never make money. That’s new. It started a little over ten years ago, and I’ll give you Uber as an example. Before they went public, Uber had only ever lost money. Billions and billions of dollars. And yet, their investors were still able to make billions of billions of dollars in profit by making this thing public and recouping that money on IPO day."

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Why can't other NATO countries just say "we are still NATO but the US isn't".

They're treaties. They're whatever the participants say they mean.

[–] pilferjinx@piefed.social 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump absolutely loathes NATO and Europe in general. I guarantee they're war gaming all the scenarios right now. I have little faith in Europe as they can't even fucking get it together enough to stomp out an imperial march on their borders from a much weaker foe.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz -5 points 1 day ago

Trump absolutely loathes NATO and Europe in general.

NATO is controlled by the US and Europe is an US colony, there are more than a thousand US military facilities in europe.