Posted on 01/15/2026 7:53:52 PM PST by Miami Rebel
Denmark said it did not manage to dissuade President Donald Trump from seeking to conquer Greenland during high-level talks at the White House on Wednesday.
"It's clear the president has this wish of conquering Greenland," Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said at a news conference after a closed-door meeting attended by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
"We had what I will describe as a frank but also constructive discussion," he added, standing alongside Greenland’s minister of foreign affairs, Vivian Motzfeldt. "The president has made his view clear, and we have a different position.”
Trump has vowed to take control of Greenland “one way or the other,” citing concerns it could be vulnerable to Russia or China. The White House has refused to rule out military action to seize the island from Denmark, alarming allies and rattling the NATO alliance.
Rasmussen said a high-level working group would be formed and meet within weeks "to explore if we can find a common way forward" on security while respecting Denmark's red lines, referring to demands for U.S. ownership of the vast, semi-autonomous territory as “totally unacceptable.”
“Whether that is doable, I don't know, but I hope it could take down the temperature,” he added.
Motzfeldt said strengthening cooperation “doesn’t mean we want to be owned by the United States,” adding: “We have shown where our limits are.”
Rasmussen said a high-level working group would be formed and meet within weeks "to explore if we can find a common way forward" on security while respecting Denmark's red lines, referring to demands for U.S. ownership of the vast, semi-autonomous territory as “totally unacceptable.”
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Motzfeldt said strengthening cooperation “doesn’t mean we want to be owned by the United States,” adding: “We have shown where our limits are.”
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Among my progenitors were the Pedersons, who came to the New World and fought in the Rebellion against the British.
Love the Norsk!!!
Did or do your Pedersen’s live in Milwaukee area? That’s where I met Sue, a classmate at Marquette. Very long timr ago.
” he’ll just use the power the US was given to establish an unlimited number of military bases there instead. Maybe he’ll create the “US Rare Earth Command” and do a little prospecting too.”
And that would be perfectly legal AFAIK
So it comes down to mineral rights. Those too are easily accessible. We (or rather, our mining companies) just have to pay up.
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The Chinese already have most of the best mineral claims and are actively mining them, just like the Chinese buy most of the fish caught. Its unofficially part of their Belt & Road imitative.
Lot of good those Golden Dome missiles would be if Russia or China were to take over the land and make it their own base of operations...
“””Believe it or not, Obama was doing a few million a year. Trumps at 200,000 for the year.”””
Obama also allowed millions to just walk in.
He has information vegetable, animal, and mineral
So.....I guess we need to need to open more bases there?
Which, of course, we can do without annexing Greenland.
(Of course, you recognize that Russians or Chinese landing in Greenland would be the equivalent of them doing do so in Hamburg, Southampton, or Montauk.)
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Lol. Love the work conquering. If we really wanted it, we could just walk in and take it. All of the bluster is a negotiating tactic and I suspect Trump will get what he really wants.
Would we get Aruba and the other Caribbean islands also? Deal…
I think most of the deportations that Obama did were at the actual border. They had so many coming in or trying to come in they were all in one place. That inflated Obama’s numbers. Now with the border essentially secured, rounding up illegals in the interior is a much harder task and will take longer I am sure.
They sent a total of something like 50 from the whole EU.
Well, you know: subtle for Trump!
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