Posted on 01/24/2025 1:18:02 PM PST by Miami Rebel
US President Donald Trump had a “fiery” and contentious phone call with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen last week, during which Trump insisted he was serious about taking over Greenland, European officials told the Financial Times.
The officials, who were not identified by the FT, said the conversation had gone very badly, with one describing it as “horrendous.” Another official said that Trump’s intention to take over Greenland was “serious, and potentially very dangerous.”
For weeks, Trump has voiced his interest in taking over Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada, in what analysts say reflect his hardball diplomacy. Frederiksen has asserted that Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, is not for sale.
While her office dismissed the officials’ “interpretation” of the Trump call, one former Danish official told the FT that Trump also threatened to target Denmark with tariffs.
Trump’s critics have warned that his interest in Greenland — which occupies a strategically important position for the US — will destabilize the US alliance with Denmark, Semafor reported, while Trump allies argue that a bigger role for the US in Greenland would be vital to national security in countering Russia and China.
The call is “likely to deepen European concerns that Trump’s return to power will strain transatlantic ties more than ever,” the FT wrote, while Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum argued that for Denmark, “the most difficult aspect of the crisis is not the need to prepare for an unspecified economic threat from a close ally, but the need to cope with a sudden sense of almost Kafkaesque absurdity.”
Since his first term as president, Trump has floated the idea of annexing Greenland to expand US access to crucial Arctic trading routes and vast mineral resources. But he has recently doubled down on the proposal and has not ruled out using force to conquer the island.
The president has also expressed interest in reclaiming the Panama Canal which he claims has unfairly given China economic and security advantages in the region.
You are basically buying a huge military base - any mining would come many years later.
Okay nevertrumper. Run along now.
You think that a territory that relies on Danish handouts will become a red state?
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Not much different than AK - which has become a red state.
Not much different than AK - which has become a red state.
Why do they keep voting for Murkowski?
The Don’s ego will be his downfall, and he’ll take us with him. We don’t need Greenland, and taking it would be flat out imperialism. For what?
It took Nazi Germany just six hours to complete its invasion of Denmark. I think the Viking battle lust has long disappeared.
However, we are not going to fight Denmark for Greenland. The U.S. only desires an exclusive right to put military bases on Greenland and exclusive mineral rights which would likely include healthy royalties being paid to Greenland and/or Denmark. Those things can be negotiated without any military involvement.
The Davis straight between Greenland and the continent is were the Russians and the Chinese will sortie their submarines and cut off our defense. Get it?
China or Russia seizing it would be as much an act of war as if either were to seize Guam.
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The Chinese having bought the rights from Denmark (as part of their Belt And Road initiative), will build a bigger base close to our tiny base, while the Russians will do their standard military invasion
I voted for Trump and every thing that comes with it.
Carry on Mr. President. Carry on.👍🇺🇸
Lovin’ every minute of it and by no means tired of All this Winning.
“The World is Yours.”
Hat tip the late great Tony Montana.🕺🏻😂
“Danish investment in the United States is growing, notably in pharmaceuticals and wind energy.”
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Scratch the “wind energy”.
This is a tool tor pressuring Putin.
Convenient one too.
Russia and China have been eyeing Greenland. Strategically, Greenland is important to our security. Screw Denmark.
>> I voted for Trump and every thing that comes with it.
Carry on Mr. President. Carry on.👍🇺🇸
Lovin’ every minute of it and by no means tired of All this Winning.
“The World is Yours.”
Hat tip the late great Tony Montana.🕺🏻😂<<
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Denmark is not going to give Greenland to China.
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not give, buy as part of the Belt and Road initiative, aka scam.
This will be settled with Greenland voting independence, then entering into a Compact of Free Association with the US. Denmark will get something to sweeten the pot such as favored nation status with trade or some other payment and everyone will go about their business.
Why do they keep voting for Murkowski?
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Their family owns the power in Juno and because of ranked choice voting.
I’m actually taking over Greenland so the matter is settled.
Greenland is already in NATO, an encroachment by China or Russia upon it would trigger an article 5 response.
I can only assume this is because Trump intends to abandon NATO but he doesn’t want Greenland to leave with Denmark.
It’s actually not their sovereign territory though.
Actually Vikings were Norway, Sweden and Danish peoples.
Those feudal societies have only recently rejoined the free world after WWII.
Finland was Swedish ruled for centuries.
What happened was in WWII the Germans invaded
killed most all the men, raped all the women,
who then raised generations of “Soy boys”,
because we came in and killed all the Germans.
While women can nurture and raise a child, they cannot make a male into a man.
Boys and girls need fathers to raise them up.
or you get the political mess that faces much of Europe today.
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