Europe stands with Greenland as Trump threat returns (www.politico.eu)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 23 Dec 17:33
https://lemmy.world/post/40609565

European leaders moved swiftly to back Greenland on Tuesday after Donald Trump named a special envoy to the Arctic island, sparking a new diplomatic frenzy on the continent.

Trump’s appointment of Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as his envoy to Greenland marks another move in his gambit to annex the self-governing Danish territory. The U.S. “has to have Greenland for national security,” Trump said at a press conference on Monday.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen reacted with anger to the announcement and summoned U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Ken Howery for a dressing down. Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen called the appointment “completely unacceptable.”

Several European leaders reacted to Landry’s nomination by expressing solidarity with Greenlanders.

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njm1314@lemmy.world on 23 Dec 17:55 next collapse

Considering his behavior in Venezuela has proven he’s more than willing to commit terrorist attacks and other Undeclared acts of War you have to wonder if Europe is going to take it a lot more seriously now. Who’s to say US ships won’t move off the coast of Greenland and start blowing up fishing vessels and hijacking ships?

falseWhite@lemmy.world on 23 Dec 18:20 next collapse

I wonder how that would go.

Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Denmark itself is in NATO.

While Greenland is not an independent member of NATO, it still is a part of NATO as a constituent part of the Kingdom of Denmark,

Is Trump really willing to not only abandon NATO, but actually go to war with it?

I don’t think so.

This is all just a misdirection campaign from all the other shit he’s doing. That he’s also hoping might help with this lowest ever poll ratings.

starik@lemmy.zip on 23 Dec 18:53 next collapse

Americans will put up with a lot, but the extrajudicial killing of white people would be a bridge too far for most

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 25 Dec 16:41 next collapse

Greenlanders are more like Inuit people.

kent_eh@lemmy.ca on 25 Dec 17:09 collapse

Would it really, though?

So far, they’re putting up with white people being scooped up by ICE and tossed in “detention camps”.

WanderingThoughts@europe.pub on 23 Dec 21:25 collapse

Those drones Ukraine uses to blow up the Russian Navy are produced in the EU. Let’s say there is a certain risk involved with threatening with ships near European shores.

baconsunday@lemmy.zip on 23 Dec 18:33 next collapse

For a dude hellbent on not looking like the king of nazis, he sure does act a lot like Hitler.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world on 23 Dec 22:27 collapse

hellbent on not looking like the king of nazis,

Where’d you get that idea?!

Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 Dec 18:51 next collapse

He’s a dementia addled drug addict who has already been committing state sanctioned murder so they should definitely be weary at the very least

starik@lemmy.zip on 23 Dec 18:56 next collapse

Epstein distraction

5in1k@lemmy.zip on 24 Dec 01:00 next collapse

I will straight up St. Patrick’s Brigade and join the Greenland Army. God I hate my government.

jaxxed@lemmy.world on 25 Dec 05:50 next collapse

This is just noise from the Trump government to hide the Epstein file releases. They are desparate.

pipi1234@lemmy.world on 25 Dec 23:59 next collapse

I don’t know man, at this point I’m not sure what is the distraction anymore…

I mean, Trump will die in a decade max, the shit that they are doing will damage the whole world for a hundred years.

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world on 27 Dec 00:53 collapse

It worked. Epstein is forgotten.

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world on 27 Dec 00:53 collapse

I hope there’s a draft. That might finally start to piss off people.