AIBU to be anxious about the situation with Greenland?

What bullet? You mean the fake blood capsule he slapped on his ear? Sadly a few mm only would have made a difference to the poor sap who actually got hit.

Precisely.

Until a week ago the reason there was a US Carrier Group off Venezuela was "drugs". Then they kidnapped Maduro and the only thing spoken about since is how, precisely, the US is going to carve up Venezuela's oil wealth.

There are over 40 European countries all relying on Trump to get us out of trouble if war erupts. Don't you want America to be stronger to deal with that?

That’s assuming there ever was a bullet in the first place

Does anyone think it’s even possible and how?

Oh come on the US already has missile
monitors there. They don’t need to own it. It’s about oil and opening trade routes. He’s telling every body it’s about security to get his way.

Surely I can’t be the only one secretly wishing that bullet had been a few mm to the side? 😱 (I hate myself for thinking it but can’t help it) No chance of an Esta for me now!

Trust me Democrats will not roll it back. The US has been trying to buy or take over Greenland for over 100 years starting with Harry Truman who offered $100m and it has been long running US foreign policy to try to take it over but obviously past presidents have not been as vocal as Trump.

I don't see any military invasion, it's just rhetoric to put pressure on them to make a deal. I do think a deal will be made, either an agreement to sell it to the US because the Danish ownership is also complicated and has its issues, or a cooperation agreement where the US can put more military presence there which to be fair will also protect Europe because it is a weak spot to Russia and China.

And the US and Denmark have had past deals with the sale of the US Virgin Islands so this wouldn't be the first time.

@KitKat1985 calm down.

@IndigoIsMyFavouriteColourNasty old Trump seizing the.Oil from the friendly Russians. How are they supposed to fund their war against Ukraine if he keeps interfering.

The news is manipulative.
Headline: 'Denmark buys 21 Hellfire missiles'
Inference: Denmark is preparing to defend its territories from an agressive US.
Reality: Denmark bought the missiles from the US.

Could you link to some of these? I've seen a number of interviews and never seen any Greenlander support the idea of joining the USA. I think there's overwhelming opposition there. They largely want independence.

Yes I think it could happen, but I think the chance of us opposing the USA are (sadly) very small. What's far more likely (and worrying) is the breakdown of NATO, and the world just becoming a much scarier, less safe place.

I really feel we are living in unprecedented times.

What's that got to do with whether people in the UK would support a US invasion?

Trump almost certainly has fronto-temporal dementia. He shows all the signs of it. He’s also a raging narcissist and paedophile.

However nobody is going against him so I guess we just have to pray for that fatal heart attack, I never thought I’d think or say that about anyone yet here we are.

Trump is a bully and is just threatening to get his own way. Look at what he did with trade tariffs - he backed down on many of them. 7th November 2028 can't come soon enough!

All those saying he’s old and won’t last much longer….

Enter Vance🫣😵🥴

I think he’s nuts and has delusions of grandeur ! Had to look at atlas to ascertain where is closest to Greenland and it’s actually Canada not US. Nowhere near Denmark BTW. Remember when Biden started to show signs of aging. Perhaps Trump is going the same way or wants to go out with a bang?

Some Brits would be absolutely gagging to be controlled by Trump.

I’m worried too OP. I honestly think he will do it. He’s as despotic as Putin. And despite NATO nobody will stop him because we can’t. And then where does it stop.

I truly believe we are headed for WW3.
Trump will go for Greenland. NATO is destroyed. Willing European countries come to Greenland’s defence. Meanwhile, Putin takes more of Europe while European attention and resource is divided. Trump does absolutely nothing to defend Europe.
China sits back watching the destruction, biding their time to pick whatever they want at the end.

I disagree- those behind him are following his nonsense

Except he's more like Dr Evil.

None of that is a full scale war. It's just political posturing at the moment, and your outcome is less cooperation with the US in Europe. That's not something that needs to keep the OP awake worrying.

American wants Greenland to protect American air space, so if Putin attacks they need to be in Greenland to detect them and destroy any missiles.

as much as I also abhor trump , and don’t agree with the bully boy tactics on this, this is not about trump and a legacy or trump expanding his empire. This is about if Russia attacks.

there are other reasons like oil and transport routes, and Denmark has offered rhe us further military presence to protect themselves, but the USA doesn’t feel Denmark has the capability to hold Putin off, so they want Greenland so they can. That’s the primary reason.

its about war.

Have you watched the interviews with prominent people from Greenland? It's got the highest suicide rate. There's mass poverty, no hope and no investment. They consider themselves forgotten. Not everyone is against being part of the US.