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Dear Ambassador:

President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”

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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Glancing over the rest of the comments, I don't see somebody explicitly pointing out how we know Trump is full of shit and also dumb as shit in this letter.

First, he campaigned on "America First," so he never felt an obligation to think "purely" of peace. It's just a lie.

Second, he's outright saying that he previously was giving the Nobel Prize committee an insane amount of control over American foreign policy because he wanted to be a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a dumb as shit thing to admit.

Third, is it Russia or China who we're worried about taking over Greenland? Does Trump not understand that these are two different countries? Surely if he is working on some sort of intel, he'd specifically choose one of them to be worried about. I think this demonstrates that there's no real intel about this, and he's simply lying.

Fourth, why isn't he waiting until Russia or China actually do something? If they actually did something militarily in Greenland, then America could swoop in and save the day. And then, he'd also have some actual reasoning behind statements that he could use to justify taking control of Greenland.

Also, NATO has done tons of stuff for the US. Why does America have the largest military budget in the world? It's because America has chosen to maintain military presence all over the world. NATO has always supported American foreign policy.

Everything Trump is saying in this letter reeks of bullshit.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And norwegian government has no say in who gets the Nobel.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Well, sort of. Technically there are a few members of the legislature or chosen by the legislature on the Nobel committee

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

why isn’t he waiting until Russia or China actually do something?

The thing is, Russia already has done something. Trump has a mandate from the people to fuck up Russia militarily by arming Ukraine. Why he chooses to not do this, while making statements about Russia taking land, is maddening.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

He's the attacker.

[–] SupahRevs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

He only sees power. This is him saying that only Russia and China are powerful to him. Everyone else he thinks he can bully. It is insane. If he was a good politician, he could actually have open dialogue with Denmark and work together to develop resource extraction or shipping routes. But Trump has no idea of how to work with people.