International Trump: US control of Greenland is absolute nescessity

Can't remember who, but some officials from Greenland were saying that the one good thing that has come from Trump's bullying is that the have realized how valuable their minerals are and that maybe they can go find somebody who isn't an a****** to make a deal with them to mine them.
Like who? China? Who else do you think wants them?
 

Putin’s endorsement of Trump’s Greenland takeover reflects their vision of a new world order​

Andrew Rothin Washington

As US pivots toward territorial ambitions in the west, the Kremlin’s support signals a deeper alignment in their challenge to global norms

As JD Vance touched down in Greenland, the Trump administration received an unlikely endorsement for the US’s first potential territorial expansion since 1947: Vladimir Putin.

Speaking at an Arctic policy forum in the northern Russian city of Murmansk on Thursday, Putin presented a more comprehensive case than any US official yet for Donald Trump’s plan to annex Greenland, crafting a historical argument that sounded suspiciously convenient in terms of Russia’s own territorial designs on Ukraine.


The US’s plans to take control of Greenland “may surprise someone only at first glance, and it is a deep mistake to believe that this is some kind of extravagant talk by the new American administration,” Putin began. “Nothing of the sort.”


The US had plans to buy Greenland in the 1960s but Congress would not support the deal, Putin said. It “protected the territory from Nazi occupation” in the 1940s and made an offer to buy the island that was rebuffed. Even going back to 1910, the US had designs on Greenland, the Russian leader noted, calling the US plans “serious” with “longstanding historical roots”.

Then Putin moved on to Alaska, which was sold by the Russian empire to the US in 1867 in what has become a national case of seller’s remorse. “Let me remind you that by 1868, the purchase of Alaska was ridiculed in American newspapers,” Putin continued. Now, he said, the purchase under president Andrew Johnson had been vindicated.

In short, Putin concluded, get over it. Big countries have territorial ambitions. Deals for land and annexations are not just historical relics – they are a modern reality. And, rejecting generations of international norms not to take territory by force or through extortion, it is none of our business what they do over there.

“As for Greenland, this is an issue that concerns two specific states and has nothing to do with us,” Putin said, while adding that Russia would continue to defend its interests in the Arctic from “dangerous” powers such as Finland and Sweden.

It does not take a Kremlinologist to understand why Putin has come out in support of Trump’s annexation plan. As US power recedes in Europe, the Kremlin is seizing its chance to establish its long-awaited “multipolar world” in which it holds dominion over a sphere of influence, particularly in Ukraine and Belarus. Putin has railed against US hegemony since his Munich speech of 2007, and he finally has a US president who is just as derisive of the postwar order as he is.


Putin’s mantra that countries should mind their own business dovetails closely with Trump’s transactional view of the world, as well as his deep suspicion of transnational organisations and alliances set up after the second world war.

Those range from the United Nations, to the international criminal court, to even foreign economic blocs such as the EU, which he said was “formed in order to screw the United States”.

“The postwar global order is not just obsolete, it is now a weapon being used against us,” said Marco Rubio during his Senate confirmation hearing in January. He is among the more moderate members of Trump’s cabinet. Those toward the more extreme, including Vance, have elevated “restrainers” seeking to accelerate the US withdrawal from Europe or even openly antagonise the US’s erstwhile allies.

But as US power recedes abroad, the White House has declared ambitions throughout the western hemisphere in a turn that some commentators have compared to the Monroe doctrine of 1823, under which the US proclaimed itself the protector of the hemisphere. And with each soundbite declaring that the US should take back the Panama canal or that Canada should become the 51st state, Trump will find an enthusiastic ally in the Kremlin who will see his jaded vision of a new world order reflected in another.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...er-reflects-their-vision-of-a-new-world-order
 
Is that the best deflection you've got for the Vice President's candid thoughts of our closest allies for the last 80 years being completely abhorrent?
Europe only cares about exploiting our military prowess and raping us in free trade. They don't give a shit about us.
 

JD Vance says US needs control of Greenland to fend off China and Russia​

Vice-president criticises Denmark’s treatment of Arctic island and says it should come under US ‘security umbrella’

Miranda Bryant

JD Vance told troops in Greenland that the US has to gain control of the Arctic island to stop the threat of China and Russia as he doubled down on criticising Denmark, which he said has “not done a good job”.

Under increasingly strained relations between the White House and Greenland and Denmark, the US vice-president said during a visit to Pituffik space base on Friday: “Our message to Denmark is very simple: you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass.”


Speaking alongside US troops, as well as Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, who is at the centre of the Signal message group security breach, Waltz’s wife, Julia Nesheiwat, the US energy secretary, Chris Wright, and the senator for Utah, Mike Lee, he said the Trump administration’s “argument” was not with the people of Greenland. It was, he said, “with the leadership in Denmark”, which he accused of having underinvested in Greenland and its security.


“That simply must change,” he added. “It is the policy of the United States that that will change.”

Greenland, he said, would better off “coming under the United States’s security umbrella than you have been under Denmark’s security umbrella”. He claimed the territory was not being kept safe by Denmark “from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China and other nations.”

Shortly after he flew into the ice-locked US military base of Pituffik in north-west Greenland with his wife, Usha, and other senior US officials on Friday, the vice-president told US troops he was “really interested in Arctic security”.

“As you all know, it’s a big issue and it’s only going to get bigger over the coming decades,” he said. Vance also said it was “cold as shit here” as he arrived to temperatures of -19C.

In the White House, Trump reiterated his previous claims that the US needs Greenland for “world peace”.

“I think Greenland understands that the United States should own it,” he said in a press conference on Friday. “And if Denmark and the EU don’t understand it, we have to explain it to them. We need Greenland. Very importantly, for international security, we have to have Greenland.”


There are, he claimed, “Chinese and Russian ships all over the place”.

Hours before Vance’s arrival, in Nuuk political leaders agreed to form a broad four-party coalition government in a show of national unity. In a rebuke to the Trump administration and its public campaign to gain control of Greenland, four of the territory’s five parties signed the coalition agreement on Friday, which states on page one: “Greenland belongs to us.”

There has been a week of heightened tension, amid already strained relations between the US, Greenland and Denmark as a result of Trump’s repeated threats to acquire Greenland. Writing on social media before his plane landed, JD Vance said: “We’re on our way and looking forward to it!”

Greenland, a former Danish colony, is a semi-autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark, its foreign and security policies run by Copenhagen.

Earlier in the week, the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, accused the US of putting “unacceptable pressure” on Greenland and Denmark to give up the territory, adding: “It is pressure that we will resist.”

On Thursday Trump renewed his vow to take control of the island: “We need Greenland for national security and international security. So we’ll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland. And the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark has to have us have Greenland. And we’ll see what happens. But if we don’t have Greenland, we can’t have great international security.”

The US delegation took off from Maryland and were due to fly directly to the ice-locked American military base, built after a 1951 defence agreement between Denmark and the US – with no further stops on the island now planned by the vice-president or his wife.

The delegation’s plans were hastily rescheduled just days before to cut out visits to the capital, Nuuk, and a dog sled race in Sisimiut after widespread outrage in Nuuk and Copenhagen over the unsolicited trip. Originally the second lady was scheduled to travel without the vice-president.

Under the changed plans, understood to include a “traditional” troop visit, Vance made an address from the base at 5.45pm GMT.

The Greenlandic government’s coalition agreement was signed on Friday after all but one of the parties reached a deal with the ruling party, the Democrats, which received the most votes in the 11 March election, on Thursday. The most US-friendly party, Naleraq, which came second in the election, left the talks on Monday, and will not be part of the coalition.


The first page of the coalition agreement states that “no one” should have any doubt that “Greenland belongs to us.

“We decide our own future. We must choose our partners ourselves. And we are the ones who dictate the pace in this regard,” it reads.

“We must show the world that we are a people and a country that stands together in prosperity and adversity. Our unity as a people must always outweigh political disagreements in individual areas.”

In response to a reporter’s question about Vance, the new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said the US had not shown respect for Greenland. “JD Vance is landing at a facility that is theirs [the US base]. This whole situation of coming to visit when there is no government in place, we insist, is not showing respect for an ally. It’s a shame, but now we have a government that needs to get its act together,” he said.

Frederiksen congratulated Greenland’s new prime minister, saying: “I wish Jens-Frederik Nielsen and the rest of the Greenland government all the best for your work and for Greenland.

“And I look forward to close cooperation in an unnecessarily conflict-filled time. Strong with a broad government and unity between different political parties. You show the strength of democracy.”

Denmark’s King Frederik said: “There should be no doubt about my love for Greenland, and my connection to the Greenlandic people is intact.”

The new coalition has also stated that it will work to significantly increase Greenland’s self-determination. “A clear roadmap must be drawn up as soon as possible for which areas it is realistic to take back, after which the process must be initiated,” it stated.

The former Greenlandic prime minister, Múte B Egede, leader of Inuit Ataqatigiit, who will now be minister for finance and taxes, said that it is only together that Greenland can “meet the great pressure from outside”.

The leader of Siumut, Vivian Motzfeldt, said: “We have listened to the Greenlandic population. We have listened to the need for us to be united as the Greenlandic population. We must be able to look forward and not get stuck in the past.”

She added: “It is important that we gather our strengths, our identity and our culture.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rm-coalition-government-before-jd-vance-visit

- Douchebags cant even protect their own cellphones apps!
 
I would have let them in and made Vance and his wife eat that fermented shark well sitting in the cold watching some dog sled races..

“Thank You” for coming, now eat this fucking shark..it’s traditional.
Or just get them into a small room and start opening cans of lutefisk and tell them they don't get to leave until they finish it all :P
 
Like who? China? Who else do you think wants them?
Maybe the EU who has agreements already with them ? It’s not just ONE country and China is not an alliance to them they aren’t even an option now that isn’t realistic .

They literally halted all Chinese projects over there and are only dealing with EU deals , they should also tell us to go kick rocks and Trump doesn’t want clean energy anyway he literally sent us backwards in that area and that’s what their resources mainly are so they should just wait it out until he’s out of office hopefully before his full term is up .

I won’t call you dumb bc someone beat me to it but it’ll be my turn tomorrow at some point ,you never disappoint . Lol
 
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This is MAGA. The little prick actually justifies the nuking of Japan to then say well hey if we gotta use force on our allies then so be it.

This is the kind of bitch that never got his ass kicked in school and now he talks like he's a big man. Pathetic MAGA talking points
 

Trump says he ‘doesn’t rule out’ using military force to control Greenland​

President has repeatedly expressed idea of expansion into autonomous territory within fellow Nato member Denmark

Edward Helmore

Donald Trump would not rule out using military force to gain control of Greenland, the world’s largest island and an autonomous territory within Denmark, a fellow Nato member with the US.

Since taking office, the US president has repeatedly expressed the idea of US expansion into Greenland, triggering widespread condemnation and unease both on the island itself and in the global diplomatic community. Greenland is seen as strategically important both for defense and as a future source of mineral wealth.

In an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday, Trump was asked whether he would rule out using force against the territory.

“I don’t rule it out. I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security,” Trump said.

The exchange came as part of wide-ranging interview following Trump’s first 100-days in office last week and he was also asked about the idea of using military force against Canada – an idea once unthinkable but now a subject of speculation amid Trump’s repeated assertion he would like to make Canada the US’s 51st state.


“It’s highly unlikely. I don’t see it with Canada. I just don’t see it, I have to be honest with you,” Trump said.

Trump said he had spoke with Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, and confirmed that the pair had not spoken about making his country part of the US.

But he said they could discuss the topic when Carney visits Washington DC “this week or next week”. Carney, along with around 90% of Canadians, oppose the idea of folding Canada into the US. But Trump said he was open to a discussion.

“I’ll always talk about that. You know why? We subsidize Canada to the tune of $200bn a year,” Trump said. “We don’t need their cars. In fact, we don’t want their cars. We don’t need their energy. We don’t even want their energy. We have more than they do. We don’t want their lumber. We have great lumber. All I have to do is free it up from the environmental lunatics.”

Trump said that if “Canada was part of the US it wouldn’t cost us. It would be great … it would be a cherished state. And, if you look at our map, if you look at the geography – I’m a real estate guy at heart. When I look down at that without that artificial line that was drawn with a ruler many years ago – was just an artificial line, goes straight across. You don’t even realize.”

“What a beautiful country it would be,” he added.

A poll published last month found that 68% of Americans believe Trump is serious about the US trying to take over Greenland, and 53% think Trump is serious when he talks about the US trying to take control of Canada.

But the survey, commissioned by ABC News found that respondents didn’t think either annexation would be a good idea. About 86% said they opposed the US trying to take control of Canada, and 76% opposed trying to take control of Greenland.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/trump-greenland-denmark-military-force
 

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