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Donald Trump said Friday his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not,” further escalating his rhetoric as he pushes to acquire the Danish territory for the U.S.

The comments came during a meeting with oil executives to discuss the prospect of doing business in Venezuela. Less than a week earlier, the U.S. military invaded the oil-rich South American nation and captured its leader, Nicolás Maduro.

Denmark and its European allies in NATO – the military alliance co-founded by the U.S. – have pushed back, reiterating that Greenland is not for sale. But the Trump administration nevertheless says it is currently weighing a range of options on Greenland, including utilizing the U.S. military or cutting a deal to purchase it from Denmark.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Do you fucking idiots really think the Epstein files would change anything? On top of that the U.S. just invaded a foreign nation, kidnapped its head of state, and is trying install a puppet government all because of oil and ego, and are now openly talking about doing the same to another nation. They can be doing more than one bad thing without it being a distraction, you can also be focused on more than one thing, especially when one of those things is an international act of terrorism that is actively hurting an entire country outside of the states.

Stop making everything about just one thing and give issues the attention they deserve for what they are, squawking “epstein files!” at everything makes the epstein files a distraction from everything else, you fucking tools.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 169 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Donald Trump is a deranged lunatic and an existential threat to the US and its citizens, and to people around the world, and that renders him unfit for office. He needs to be removed as soon as possible, while there's still some possibility that the extensive harm that he has done and is doing might be reversed.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (15 children)

I hope he tries The Thing that finally gets domestic power to remove him. 25th amendment, impeach & remove, resign. Whatever. None of those seem particularly likely at this point.

I very much hope he doesn't ever get the opportunity to do The Thing that finally gets a foreign power to stop him. He's had no consequences so far. Barely any meaningful resistance. It's hard to imagine what someone with his brain damage thinks, but he doesn't have any evidence that he can't do whatever he wants, and it won't be surprising if he tries.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 35 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I find it essentially impossible to believe there is a The Thing for the first one. Where things are at now, I can't even imagine what that could possibly be.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago

The oligarchs. If Europe blocks facebook, amazon, netflix and whatever... Trump will be removed from office within a week.

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[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The 25th amendment is invoked by the cabinet and the vice president. Those are the people supporting this shit, they aren't going to get rid of him. He's doing what they want and giving them cover.

I would say that the only thing that could convince them to remove him is if he became such a liability that they felt the need to get rid of him out of self-preservation. But honestly, I don't think they have the necessary level of awareness. If anything, I suspect most of them would be more likely to double down on being cartoonishly evil and try to do whatever it takes to cling to power.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (6 children)
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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Americans, show some spine and end this man

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

They're onboard. 40% approval rating. Let that sink in.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

40% too high

[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

That's around 150 million idiots, that want a warmongering criminal pedophile to run the country. Insane.

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

Even if Trump is removed from power this problem isn't going to go away. To start solving the problem permenently we need to get rid of capitalism. Fascism is capitalism in crisis and if capitalism is maintained fascism is inevitable.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] Janx@piefed.social 44 points 1 day ago

Unfair. That's only according to his ex-wife, court records, the Epstein files, several credible victims, and his own recorded admission...

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[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago

The Epstein files still have not been released.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doing Putin’s bidding.

By even attempting or formulating an attack on Greenland he places the rest of NATO against the US. If he can separate the two, then NATO no longer exists.

This is trump being a Putin toady.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

And if NATO does nothing it might as well not exist anymore.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Impeach and remove this madman

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The rest of NATO need to put troops in Greenland, today, with clear orders to fire on any invading force, even if its the US.

If there's one clear and obvious pattern with Trump's use of military power, it's that he likes quick, easy, low cost military operations. One day of airstrikes, one special forces raid, declare victory, go home. Either he or the people around him understand that America has no stomach for a war right now. The American right have been beating the anti-war drums hard for the last decade. But surgical military operations win public because they're already over before anyone can react. Look, see, no Iraq style quagmire. Trump gets it done, no problems. Not like those other idiots.

All of which adds up to the conclusion that Trump will not want to spark a war with the entirety of NATO. But he's extremely confident that if he steals Greenland fast enough, NATO won't want a war to take it back.

This is why the defence of Greenland has to be pre-emptive. A clear commitment to a fight, before the US can put boots on the ground. Do that, and Trump will back down. The right wing politics of today are not the right wing politics of 2001. He doesn't want a war, he wants an easy victory. We cannot offer him one.

[–] TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The rest of NATO need to put troops in Greenland, today, with clear orders to fire on any invading force, even if its the US.

IMO NATO’s focus should be on reinforcing the Canadian border with the US and make Americans realize that Trump is brining war to their doorstep if moving on Greenland. Mark Carney should be the American sounding face of the reasonable free world, pleading to the US to not let it happen. Hopefully a critical mass of Americans would side against the war and stop it before it happens.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

As a Canadian, obviously I would take an help offered, but I do strongly believe that Greenland is where we need to draw the line in the sand. Again, I don't think Trump has the stomach for an actual war. I think he knows how much that would sink his popularity with the people who most strongly support him. A war with Canada would be an especially difficult sell.

I'm not remotely dismissing the possibility that it could happen. Trust me, my wife is in the CAF, she'd be on the front fucking line if it did. There's shit I know that I can't even fucking talk about when it comes to those kinds of conversations. But I think the key here is that he's really looking for quick easy wins. That's Trump's whole mentality. It's all about what you can steal before anyone notices you got away with it. He's a conman and a thief by nature. Greenland is where NATO can show Trump the will to stand up to him, and deny him the easy, cheap wins that he wants. It won't end the threat, but at this point I'm really not sure if anything NATO does can end the threat of the US without a world war. I think the only thing, realistically, that can be done is to buy time for the people in America to get their fucking shit together and end this nightmare.

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[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 day ago

“If anyone knows anything about not respecting boundaries, it’s me!” - Drumpf

[–] cactuspunter@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Spoken like a true rapist.

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

While we fight USA in greenland, if we not just give it to them, putin will attack our eastern borders I bet. Thanks so much trump for idk whats going on anymore tbh. Nazi corruption or something, but also semi good cause Maduro was also evil? idk anymore man

Not like american citizens follow the news so yeah not like americans are able to stop this evil from the inside out, they aren't able to mass strike or whatever, most americans got no idea whats going on, america will get what they want whenever they want cause they the most powerful. But the business relationships will be over hopefully after Greenland., good luck with your billionaire tech companies without customers from the EU.

Thanks trump for weaking your friends, for making putin more powerful... Thank you trump for bringing neo kolonialism back, Thank you trump for a global war, Thank you trump for hating and oppressing the weak, not protecting the weak.
THANK YOU TRUMP FOR WORLD WAR III

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

health care and rent skyrockets, ICE destroying our neighborhoods. But i guess taking Greenland or abducting Venezuela pres is more important. "What the actual fuck", i've been saying this literally every single day since his 2nd presidency. Every day is like another god damn South Park episode.

also friendly reminder we are still early into January 2026

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, one of the founding members of NATO along with the US.

Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members, and triggers an obligation for each member to come to its assistance.

Attacking, invading, operating in, or otherwise taking military action against Greenland will at best destabilize and delegitimize NATO, and at worst prompt a full military response from NATO member states against the United States Military, the largest and most powerful armed force in history several times over, with a budget an order of magnitude larger than the rest of the world combined.

I cannot overstate how horrifically, hilariously bad this would be:

  • It would begin an escalating conflict that would give China the perfect distraction to invade Taiwan, and remove the support that Ukraine desperately requires to continue defending against Russia.

  • To avoid war, Denmark and NATO would be forced to concede and appease Trump as Chamberlain did with Hitler, further emboldening Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping to continue their totalitarian regimes and campaigns which literally amount to no less than cartoonishly evil total world domination.

  • In full scale conflict, NATO states would be faced with a losing battle in which their only recourse would quickly become the use of nuclear weapons.

This absolutely cannot happen. Our only window to stop the Trump regime’s utterly Fascist-with-a-capital-F designs by conventional political means is rapidly closing. Once the American military is in Denmark without their consent, my advice is to start looking at options for your own survival of WWIII.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That would be the end of NATO. Which means it's the US on one side an the rest of the world on the other. Except Israel, of course.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But on the plus side, the members could start their own alliance named "Now Excluding America Treaty Organization". I way on the plus side because the acronym would spell out "NEATO"

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[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Just fucking kill him. No one will really care

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago

I bet Jodie Foster will care, do it for her! Get pardoned by the next admin for protecting democracy! Win win!

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At which point can denmark/Greenland evict their military presence?

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

January 2025 was the best -most recent- option.
Last week was next.
Yesterday was next.
Today is next.

If tRUMP isn't a russian stooge then that obese orange paedo is doing its best to look like it.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Something feels like covid felt just before covid became a pandemic.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Who is "we", you little bitch?

[–] desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am calling upon all service workers to call in sick tomorrow. If you serve anyone anything, this means fast food workers. This means all the people who cannot afford to take a day off. If we all just don't show up, the world stops....why don't we all get this?

Yeah, the whole army of me doesn't show up, and them I'm fired (or take a reason sick day for no reason when I have a very, very limited number of those and get fired next time I'm sick).

Nobody else is willing to join this because some internet rando promised them it would work, and a solid chunk of the population would be unwilling to join even if there was no consequences because they generally back the regime and its warmongering. In the theoretical best case it's the prisoners' dilemma on a societal scale which is basically impossible to win without a larger national union syndicate to coordinate.

Unionize now, then we can actually make a general strike happen.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah I don't think everyone you're calling upon is going to get your message.

You're also calling upon people who do something they can't afford to do. This suggests you don't have an understanding of how things are for people that are struggling.

[–] ennof@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Epstein files

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago

Yeah, and I hope it's FUCKING DIE. I'm so sick and fucking tired of Trump.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What I expect is the US will land and declare it belongs to the US now. The only question I have is if Greenland's military is going to shoot back.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The Danes have already stated, "shoot first, ask questions later." I don't expect them to step down from that position. An invasion by a hostile state IS an act of war. And the invader is by definition a war criminal. The Danes are being serious, they aren't jesting. FAFO.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's gonna grab 'em by the Parliament.

When you're a star, they let you do it!

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