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re: With 20 days to 2 months, Greenland will be ours!! It is 1.25 times bigger than Alaska!!
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:33 pm to jimmy the leg
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:33 pm to jimmy the leg
Of course.
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Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:38 pm to Timeoday
What quality women do they have?
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:42 pm to crazy4lsu
quote:That’s exactly why this is so baffling. It isn’t some fringe ideology, it’s the load-bearing beam of U.S. security policy. You get basing access, denial, influence, and stability at an incredibly cheap cost by operating inside it.
What confuses me is that apparently there are people in this administration who aren't Atlanticists. You could get a whole bunch of what you want just by doing bog-standard US foreign policy since the 1880s. That position is so central to US security policy that I wonder what they actually beleive about the future of the world.
Which makes the Greenland talk feel less like strategy and more like category error. You’re trying to solve an alliance-management problem with a sovereignty acquisition tool.
And you're correct, rhe worrying part isn’t Greenland specifically, it’s what model of the future they’re operating under. Because abandoning a system that reliably delivers your objectives without coercion only makes sense if you believe that system is already doomed.
And if that’s the belief, broadcasting it this way is a great way to help make it true.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:42 pm to deltaland
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10% of revenue goes to the locals, divided equally.
10% is way too high. Maybe 1%.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:42 pm to Eurocat
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Of course.
Historically sure, but now?
What have they done recently to make you believe that?
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:46 pm to TheHarahanian
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You want it, go ahead. I’ll never set foot on that iceberg.
Which is why we buy it now.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:47 pm to northshorebamaman
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that system is already doomed.
Probably. Europe would stab America in the back repeatedly at this point IF they could.
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And if that’s the belief, broadcasting it this way is a great way to help make it true.
If it’s true (and I would suggest that it’s likely), then why not break ties. I would suggest their alliance is with China. Let them own it, or denounce it VERY publicly.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:47 pm to Timeoday
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It is called surviving. The POTUS is elected to protect the USA. It is what must be done. It will be done. Greenland will be ours real soon. WORD.
Are you sure that's something a FIFA Peace Prize winner would do?
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:49 pm to Eurocat
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We already have a missile-defense base there. The 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement between Denmark and the United States that allows for the Pituffik Space Base could presumably be updated and extended.
I listened to a Brit observe that Trump was the first figure since Genghis Khan to just lay claim to territory without bothering to give a plausible excuse.
Personally, I prefer Trump and Miller unleashed without pretense. "We will take whatever we want, because...frick you...what are you going to do about it?"
If Greenland were vital to our security, you would think we would have been increasing our troops in Greenland with urgency. Instead, here's the situation with our military in Greenland: from 20,000 in the 60s to the current historical low of about 150.
This post was edited on 1/6/26 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:54 pm to Mikes My Tiger
POTUS Trump, after the US takes Greenland, will have a prize named after him that will be given only when something even more incredible is done. Though it could take a few centuries, eventually something more incredible will be done.
It will be known as the TRUMP Prize for Mankind Award.
It will be known as the TRUMP Prize for Mankind Award.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:55 pm to FluffyBunnyFeet
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If someone started a thread a month ago titled "Maduro will be in American custody in one month"
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:56 pm to jimmy the leg
quote:If Europe were actually aligned with China in any meaningful strategic sense, we’d already see it in security behavior, not trade friction or diplomatic hedging. Instead, we see the opposite. The EU follows the U.S. on sanctions, export controls, and tech restrictions even when it directly hurts their own economies. That’s not what “stab you in the back if they could” looks like.
Probably. Europe would stab America in the back repeatedly at this point IF they could.
If it’s true (and I would suggest that it’s likely), then why not break ties. I would suggest their alliance is with China. Let them own it, or denounce it VERY publicly.
What’s happening is mistrust, not betrayal. Years of mixed signals from Washington have pushed Europe to hedge economically and rhetorically, but they have not crossed the red lines that would indicate a true strategic pivot. Breaking ties or forcing a public loyalty test would not clarify that situation. It would manufacture the very split you’re assuming already exists.
If you treat a fraying alliance as dead and act accordingly, you remove any remaining incentive for restraint or cooperation. At that point, Europe would be forced to look elsewhere. But that would be an outcome we created, not one we revealed.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 7:59 pm to northshorebamaman
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Because abandoning a system that reliably delivers your objectives without coercion only makes sense if you believe that system is already doomed
But that begs the question, what world do they imagine? Even in some scenario where they feel changing European demographics threatens the alliance, those same pressures exist in the US as well. And it is absolutely the case that the European ruling class has not represented the demographics of their people, in a verifiable sense. European nobles were not restricted by blood or soil to specific tracts of land or something. Not only that, that still is an absence of what will take its place. The US could do a lot to shape that destiny if they chose and as they have chosen in the past. If not Atlantacism, then what is the ideology which will shape American security policy?
My view is that there is an old style thinking at play where owning the land means assured material wealth. That assumes a lot, namely that technological growth in the future won't undermine those resource extraction efforts. Given the pace of growth, it seems more like flailing in the dark rather than actually putting a plan in place for the future.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 8:00 pm to Timeoday
Can we go fishing there?
Posted on 1/6/26 at 8:02 pm to jimmy the leg
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What have they done recently to make you believe that?
Literally the entire orientation of their foreign policy, governance and economy. Maybe you should highlight the specific instances of where you think they have not acted as allies.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 8:04 pm to deltaland
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There’s like 50,000 people in Greenland.
Offer them US citizenship and to be an autonomous territory like Puerto Rico. We will send in our oil and mining companies to extract resources estimated in the trillions. 10% of revenue goes to the locals, divided equally. That’s 2,000 dollars per person for every billion dollars in revenue
Your going to love when we have to give the Natives (Inuit)free health care with Indian Health services
Posted on 1/6/26 at 8:08 pm to Eurocat
As far as I know, there are ongoing negotiations between the US and Denmark to purchase Greenland. This idea of the US militarily conquering Greenland is nothing but a leftist fever dream.
If we can buy it for a reasonable sum that makes sense for the US taxpayer then great. If not, move on.
If we can buy it for a reasonable sum that makes sense for the US taxpayer then great. If not, move on.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 8:09 pm to RummelTiger
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BINGO!
No BINGO. Greenland sucks. It's like living in northern Alaska.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 8:10 pm to Eurocat
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Do we need bases? More patrols of areas? Mineral right agreements? (and will those to the US Gvt or Trumps friends?)? There is no need for this.
Locking down the western hemisphere to keep Chinas hands out of it. Strategic location defensively and has trillions of resources including rare earth minerals that we need
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