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Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede firmly rejected Trump’s vow to acquire the island, declaring, “Greenland is ours.”

His statement came after Trump told Congress that the U.S. supports Greenland’s self-determination but will “get it one way or another” for security reasons.

Trump’s remarks, made a week before Greenland’s elections, have fueled discussions on full independence from Denmark.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen downplayed Trump’s comments, highlighting Greenland’s decision-making process. Amidst growing interest in severing ties with Denmark, Greenlanders will vote Tuesday.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

He threatens to invade places like Greenland or Canada because it normalizes what Russia did to Ukraine.

The only reason he doesn't invade them is because he thinks he wouldn't survive the politics of doing so back home.

Perhaps near the end of hos "term" he'll try something then site the conflict as to why the US isn't going to have an election.

... he'll point to Zelensky and say "so it's fine when he postpones elections for a war, but not me?" - Russia might hack a few things to give his claims of election insecurity appear valid.

"We can't hold elections due to the fact we're under martial law, and due to the hackers from the other side, and due to the on going conflict. For these reasons and more, the election is being postponed." - Donald Trump, 2028

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

Sums it up. It’s not like he already said that he’s looking into ways to expand his term.

[–] letraset@feddit.dk 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@remindme@mstdn.social 40 months

[–] remindme@mstdn.social 3 points 1 month ago

@letraset Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Jul 5, 2028 at 1:52 PM UTC.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Didn’t realize we had a fediverse reminder bot, nice

[–] krigo666@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He couldn't buy a porn star, how is he going to buy an island? /S

[–] You_are_dust@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

His friend owned an island.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

His friend did, he didn't.

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Send US the application form to leave NATO since they wish to leave. Start the process going. Call his bluff and keep asking for his resignation from NATO. Once US is out of NATO. NATO can protect Greenland from US invasion and provide nuclear cover.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I feel like we should have more fear of 50,000 Greenlanders. I don’t know why — we have nukes and a zillion well-trained soldiers — but it’s the same instinct that I feel about fighting someone who is really good at pool or has a face tattoo. They will retreat to the ice and we’ll have a bunch of troops from Florida slipping and sliding while a Greenlander pops out of an ice crevice and harvests their livers for winter.

Don’t fuck with people who live in extreme environments is like History of War 101. I wouldn’t even sass a penguin, much less get in a gun brawl with someone who voluntarily lives in Siberia. I saw Planet Ice. They melt their gas with blow torches just to get to work.