Canadian Flag Raised as Consulate Opens in Greenland

Euronews ^ | 06/02/2026

[nickcarraway]

Canada and France opened a consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, where Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand raised the Canadian flag during an official ceremony. Canada's maple-leaf flag went up and dozens of people sang “O Canada” as Foreign Minister Anita Anand officially opened the country's consulate in Nuuk, which is also the largest city of the icy Arctic island.

Around 50 people gathered for the event and applauded as the flag was hoisted.

Canada and France oppose claims by US President Donald Trump over the Danish autonomous territory.

Greenland Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt said the move highlights shared values and strong ties with Canada.

France says the decision to open its outpost was made when President Emmanuel Macron visited in June.

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TOPICS: Canada; European Union; Foreign Affairs; France; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 5thcolumonfr; canada; denmark; eussr; fourthreich; frtraitorslist; greenland; howcanthisbe; ithoughtours; marxcarnage; nathanbedford; nathanbedwetter; northerncuba; snownazis; tds; trumpsaidours; trumpsaidwewon

[dayglored]

This has the makings of a Monty Python sketch.

[FlingWingFlyer]

So the Frogs and the Hosers are after Greenland now. Nice.

[FlingWingFlyer]

We can run those Chimps out by sending some ICE guys over there.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Nuke Paris. That's a twofer: no more frogs or wogs.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Once Alberta jumps ship, it will be followed by Saskatchewan and BC. Maybe Newfoundland
and Labrador. Red Canada will collapse like a house of cards. Remember the fall of the Berlin
Wall and collapse of the Eastern Bloc?

[nathanbedford]

Look at a map, every nation that used to be an American ally across the entire expanse of the North Atlantic has now become a wary former ally:

Canada (extending thousands of miles along the Arctic from the Pacific to the edge of Greenland); Greenland itself (a place under treaty obligation to accommodate every reasonable American demand); Iceland (like Greenland containing American defense forces); Denmark (century long protector of Greenland); Denmark's Faroe Islands (strategically important for the North Sea as well as the Arctic),; France (on the Atlantic as well as the Mediterranean); Norway (with several islands in the far north Atlantic, Spitsbergen, as well as extensive coast on the Atlantic and on the Bering Sea); Great Britain (even America's special relationship was not strong enough to co-opt Britain).

How have we achieved so much in so short a period of time? We insinuated that we might invade Canada, we undermined the sovereignty of Canada by advocating that Canada break apart and join America, we insulted the Canadian people, we opened a tariff war with Canada and succeeded in electing an extreme left-wing premier who is driving Canada into alliances with China.

All this was accomplished without Donald Trump firing a shot.

We actually threatened to invade, occupy, strip mine, and annex Greenland, the place where we already had and continue to enjoy broad treaty rights that offered everything Trump demanded that may be necessary for the defense of the island and where Denmark repeatedly expressed approval for every reasonable American expansionist demand.

Done without firing a shot but with bluster and threats that intimidated Greenlanders, outraged Danes and dismayed 500 million Europeans. It achieved nothing more than we already had a right to enjoy in Greenland and came at the cost of a humiliating climbdown by our president before the world at Davo's and bringing NATO, history's most successful multilateral defense treaty, to near destruction.

What do we hear from conservatives at home about this blundering on the world stage? We are told to invade with ICE troops, nuke Paris, while we compare Canada to Soviet Russia and the Warsaw Pact countries.

There is nothing more surely guaranteed to produce the decline and fall of America than hubristic jingoism.

[flaglady47]

“What do we hear from conservatives at home about this blundering on the world stage? We are told to invade with ICE troops, nuke Paris, while we compare Canada to Soviet Russia and the Warsaw Pact countries.

There is nothing more surely guaranteed to produce the decline and fall of America than hubristic jingoism.”

You better change your name, You’re working for the other side now.

[nathanbedford]

"There is nothing more surely guaranteed to produce the decline and fall of America than hubristic jingoism.”

You better change your name, You’re working for the other side now.

There is nothing more revealing of a losing argument than avoiding the issues with personal attacks.

[Texas Eagle]

There goes the neighborhood.

[dforest]

The decline and fall of America was sealed when the border was opened wide and the US followed the Europeans and the UK in self destruction.

They haven’t been our allies or shared our values for a long time. NATO is no longer defensive, it is predatory and aggressive. The Euros pontificate and talk and never put any money where their mouth is.

Sad that you cannot see any of this. It is though you are blinded by the past.

[ronnie raygun]

much like the Danes sending an armed force of 12

[Dartoid]

You wrote a lot of words but really said nothing

[nathanbedford]

Here is a reply of a couple of days ago that I think anticipates many of the points you make:

Germany backs European level nuclear discussions

2/5/2026, 9:42:34 AM · 10 of 35

nathanbedford to Olog-hai

On many occasions in this forum I have decried the foolish, ultimately dangerous policy of this administration to needlessly destroy NATO and ignite a nuclear arms race that will inevitably extend well beyond Europe.

This article tells us that European leaders are exploring a reasonable response to their newly realized nakedness to the Bear. If France and Britain, with their limited nuclear arsenals, cannot combine effectively with other NATO nations to form a multinational shield, all these nations will be left with no option for survival but to get the bomb individually. Welcome to a new nuclear arms race.

When Trump told Europe that, in effect, NATO can no longer depend on him to defend them in the event of nuclear attack, Europeans quickly concluded that the essential structure of NATO was being deliberately dismantled by Donald Trump. His statement alone renders the deterrent power of NATO less viable.

Combine this threat with Trump's threats that he might not honor our Article 5 treaty obligation to conventionally defend European nations if they had not paid up, with Trump's blustering, bellicose threat to invade Greenland, and one can only conclude that Europe is not paranoid, rather, it is Trump who is at best ill-advised.

Russia has only a corrupt, conventional armed force that has been exposed by valiant and resourceful Ukrainians to be a pathetic threat, but Russia remains perhaps the world's second most lethal nuclear threat, in the absence of America's power and willingness to deter that threat.

Europe knows it must look elsewhere to protect itself from an aggressive Russia. Aggressive Russia has attacked country after country in the last two decades and will do so again with impunity if it has unique possession of the bomb in Europe. A uniquely armed nuclear Russia is no longer pathetic but a real conventional threat to Europe.

Russia has invaded Georgia, Syria, Ukraine (repeatedly), Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, and undertaken various adventures in Africa. It was only yesterday that Russia again rattled its nuclear spears when it said that it was withdrawing from the nuclear arms treaty. Over the years since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Putin and his lieutenants have repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine and against those who sustain Ukraine.

Small wonder Europe feels bereft of the most essential security feature in the face of Russia's belligerence. It was predictable, as I for one have predicted, that Europe will seek protection elsewhere and that might well ignite a nuclear arms race. Consider that Turkey, a member of NATO, will feel the urgent necessity to get the bomb when European nations arm themselves. Once Turkey acquires nukes, the rest of the Middle East will inevitably follow suit, and then the world.

The consequences for American security in a world of proliferating nuclear weapons, among them unstable Middle Eastern countries, and beyond them into the rest of the world, are inevitable but equally unnecessary.

If the world arms up, it will not be because Germany closed its nuclear power plants, or because Europe permitted too much immigration, as argued here, it will happen only because Donald Trump is blowing up NATO.

Nor is this administration's mindless policy justified because domestic policies in Europe offend Maga. Domestic policies in Minnesota also offend Maga-and rightly so. We perhaps should be aware of our own hypocrisy. Hypocrisy in national nuclear security policy is not only unseemly, it is foolhardy in the extreme. In this case, the best outcome might be that we have unwittingly substituted France for America in controlling nuclear deterrence policy. Thank you, Maga.

The risks and expense of proliferating nuclear arms will have been brought upon ourselves, and no hypocritical damning of European domestic policies will make us safe or make rational our self-defeating policy.

European leaders are rationally attempting to restore a nuclear deterrence in the face of irrational American foreign policy.

[nathanbedford]

I just posted a lot more of them for you to ignore.

[Sacajaweau]

Laughing....Trump making them step up to the plate...no problem...why should we be their lone protector. Trump’s little plan worked like a dream. lol

[Steven Tyler]

Great news!
Canada is replacing USMCA with Greenland trade agreements...

[Dartoid]

No thanks

[mewzilla]

Add Turkey to the list.

[trebb]

There was a time when I enjoyed reading your crap - but lately it seems to have turned to 💩
I guess that’s what happens when one gets too full of oneself.