Trump taking over Greenland?

[Cantonet]

Will anyone stop him?
What will Nato do?
What will Denmark do?
Are there plans in motion to stop this other than friendly diplomacy & gentle words?

I don’t mean with America I mean globally, suddenly any country can decide to take another country

Well I’d agree with you there.

Certainly not on your previous “well what’s wrong with it” comment though

Well that’s reassuring - no WW3 but the USA can be a world dictator. Much better.

The UK should stop selling all its stuff to the US until this issue is resolved............................Oh !

who knows

Yes, I’m sure Trump won’t like it when China waltzes into Taiwan.

why not someone has to be in power what makes any other country better than america, besides you could all prefer a one world govt instead like the federation from star trek then theres no individual countries etc

What will he go next for when he gets greenland.

what ever is a strategic advantage to their goals what ever they may be

Trump is like a 1980s Hollywood tycoon with a big cigar, frozen in aspic. He sees the world as a giant Monopoly board for him to conquer and build hotels on. He has a massive boner for the sort of open imperialism that the rest of the world (apart from Israel) is trying to move on from. His grasp of diplomacy is laughable. He thinks “ ending a war” means giving a big press conference in which he simply announces that it’s all over; he has no understanding of, and no interest in, the months of hard, skilled diplomatic work that need to precede such an announcement. Even his military showboating is painfully dated and out of touch; for example, he is spaffing huge amounts of money on enormous “Trump class” warships that will be of no practical use whatsoever and will be used for target practice.

The best we can hope for from Trump is that he suffers some sort of massive medical event that puts him out of politics for good. It’s looking not unlikely 🤞

Can't see anyone stopping him. How could they? I doubt he cares about or needs to be part of nato either. It's all VERY concerning.

I suspect NATO et all would send in troops.

We can't just sit her and watch another Hitler in our midst.

The orange one is a very dangerous man.

But it's OK cos Putin and Ping might sort him out for invading a BRICS sovereign state and arresting their mate. Let's hope they do it before Greenland becomes a thing.

Oh Christ. The Sudetenland.

It’s utterly appalling and outdated Putin-esque behaviour for the US to think they will simply “have” Greenland because they want it. I should think all of Europe and Canada would side with Greenland. That said, I can’t see an actual war being fought - war is just fucking terrible. I feel sad for the Greenlanders - I watch one on YouTube and they seem happy and just really good people.

Yes but “President Vance” is hardly a reassuring thought. What if he made Miller VP 😱

We’ve chosen to spend all our money on health and benefits

Before this popular US narrative takes off on this thread, can I point out that those of us actually in the UK remember that at the same time the (then Tory) UK govt was slashing the army, it was also slashing disability spending and boasting it was going to cut billions of pounds from the welfare state.

The Tories explicitly ran on this in an election – IIRC 2015 though can't be bothered to check.

It's just that the third thing the UK govt was cutting was taxes. The Tories ran on that as well.

Obviously it works better for the US elite like Trump, but by no means limited to him, to kid US citizens that there's a straight choice between them having affordable healthcare etc and them having a good military, while gliding over taxcuts which disproportionately benefit the wealthy, but that's just a version of the game "He took your cookie".

In fact I saw a US poster respond to a recent budget by this Labour government which announced signficant cuts to disability spending, with words to the effect of "See, spending on welfare not military." The opposite of what had happened. So it's a very deeply entrenched view.

(As it happened a Labour revolt subsequently reduced the intended cuts, IIUC, but the US poster's comment came before that happened.)

I agree, Vance is possibly an even worse human being, and Miller…I don’t know what the Ed Gein is wrong with that guy, but he terrifies me.

I don’t think Vance - or anyone, really - would be able to command the weird slavish devotion of millions the way Trump does though, I think it’s been a sort of collective psychosis. I think the wheels would come off quite quickly if Trump went down.

They could but they wouldn’t win. It would start WW3 with Putin et al taking advantage of NATO and the USA being occupied elsewhere.

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He needs stopping. No idea how anyone could go about it. At the minute I think he’s more terrifying than Putin. Why had there been no condemnation of his invasion of Venezuela?

I just read this on the BBC and cannot quite believe what I'm reading

Because what Trump actually wants is access to the rich minerals that are in Greenland. They are in remote locations and difficult to extra but as Trump doesn't care about the environment I'm sure they would just carve it up to get what they want.

Canada.

Who are Poland if you are playing along with ‘1930s Germany - Lest We Forget’ Bingo.

Greenland LAST MONTH said they are open to any and all investments the US wants to make in their country (mining) and the US is welcome to have as many military bases as they would like, they currently have 1 and during the cold war had 17. At this particular press conference they didn't really know what "taking over" would achieve that allowing investment and increased bases didn't offer.
However what his threats might do is force the region as a whole to invest themselves in more military without costing the US a penny all while forcing them to buy US equipment (win win) oh and forcing them to pay for part of their "golden dome" (air missile defense system).
Same with the treats to Canada, force us to invest more in our military although we may choose NOT to buy american, have the ability to do some of our own stuff.

its the fact society tech etc needs the minerals so one way other another etc