Sorry to get political but, why does the US think Denmark cannot defend Greenland?

@Lostwithielle Ohhh, it absolutely is Denmark's responsibility. The Danes sayeth so, which is hilarious since they can't/won't meet their NATO funding commitment.



Never?

Greenland sits on the North American tectonic plate, so it is part of North America geographically. It's geopolitical significance to the US is tremendous. First attempts to purchase it, go back to 1867. Russia and China drooling over Greenland. You don't think they're a threat?

@BizSuitStacy frankly no. They’re not a threat. And there has never been evidence that they were “drooling over it” these last 80 years.

@Lostwithielle I'm sorry to hear that. Unlike other social media sites, this one doesn't remove non leftist opinions as a matter of course.

I can appreciate you were caught unaware.

@SumKindaMunster 🙄

@TheDeathOCuHullainn Aww does the widdle baby want attention? You weren't embarrassed enough when I chased you off my post?

@whowasthatmaskedman That's not going to be at all comparable. Greenland only has a population of 60K people. There's not really much for a local resistance to counter an occupation. And unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan, we aren't looking to install puppets we're looking to take it over. It's a different game.

Any conflict will see tragic loss of life for no good reason. That should be concerning enough. Though longer term, the damage done to NATO and European alliances is massive. Everyone is significantly weakened by this just through loss of trust alone.

Not only that, other large nations will see both Russia and the US engaged in wars of aggression for territory. We could try to call rogue state when it is only one nation doing it. But with two, it becomes normalized. How could we judge China for going after Taiwan if we invade Greenland?

The US doesn't need to be successful in taking Greenland to do long term and significant damage. It's already being done.

@ViciDraco I think we may be on the same side of this discourse. But for different reasons. So I am content to stick with my comments. They hold true all the way back to the war of independence.😷

@whowasthatmaskedman We generally have agreement on the broad strokes but differ in some of the details.

@jshm2 so, in other words, this is Trump living in an alternate reality.

Figures. And they said Biden was cognitively impaired…

@wildbill83 but Greenland is defended by America.

@Lostwithielle we've had to. In ww2, there were more Americans living on Greenland than Danes...

@Lostwithielle Yup, that's what the MSM, Democrats and some European leaders claim.

I'm not saying Trump is 100% correct here. However, I am not taking the word of the same people who lie, scream and stomp their feet anytime Trump says or does something.

Wouldn't it be interesting if Trump's whole thing was to get NATO to add military to Greenland? And this was the way he did it?

@SumKindaMunster from what I can gather, that has now happened, to the delight of Denmark which is only too happy to have help defending Greenland. But let’s be honest here. Greenland has never been at serious risk of invasion.

@Lostwithielle You don't know that. Why do you dismiss the security concerns of the President of the United States? Cuz you don't like him?