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Denmark, Greenland failed to win the Trump team over
The U.S. allies hoped meeting senior Trump officials would diffuse tensions and tough talk on Greenland. It didn't.
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... Denmark and Greenland "still have a fundamental disagreement" with the U.S. over President Donald Trump's desire to control the Arctic territory, Denmark's foreign minister said Wednesday. Lars Lkke Rasmussen and his Greenland counterpart, Vivian Motzfeldt, finally had their chance to try to turn down the temperature at the White House after more than a year of aggressive internet trolling, statements and demands from the U.S. Their conversation did little to dissuade Trump and his team from their hold on Greenland. "We didn't manage to change the American position," Rasmussen told reporters after the meeting. "It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering over Greenland. We made it very, very clear that this is not in the interest of the Kingdom." ...
Lars Lkke Rasmussen and his Greenland counterpart, Vivian Motzfeldt, finally had their chance to try to turn down the temperature at the White House after more than a year of aggressive internet trolling, statements and demands from the U.S. Their conversation did little to dissuade Trump and his team from their hold on Greenland.
"We didn't manage to change the American position," Rasmussen told reporters after the meeting. "It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering over Greenland. We made it very, very clear that this is not in the interest of the Kingdom." ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-15 02:19 AM | Reply
OK, my first question is ...
What right does Pres Trump have to justify his quest to colonize and/or annex Greenland?
#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-15 02:20 AM | Reply
What right does Pres Trump have to justify his quest
He thinks he owns the whole planet. There are things in Greenland that don't have his name on them yet.
#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-01-15 02:24 AM | Reply
@#3 ... He thinks he owns the whole planet. ...
... or is entitled to own the Western Hemisphere, if you can believe the National Security Strategy document he recently issued.
Regarding Greenland, imo, Pres trump's saber-rattling about security is just a cover for his true goal ...
The mineral deposits of Greenland.
Similar to your excellent recent comment about fentanyl being little more than Pres Trump's gateway drug to Venezuelan oil.
The mineral deposits in Greenland are Pres Trump's gateway drug to annexing Greenland.
(OK, that analogy doesn't work as well as your excellent comment   :(, but I suspect you get what I am saying ...)
#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-15 03:06 AM | Reply
"What right does Pres Trump have to justify his quest to colonize and/or annex Greenland?"
The same right Chancellor Hitler had to annex Czechoslovakia.
#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-15 07:30 AM | Reply
Germany and France (French Foreign Legion?) are sending troops to defend Greenland.
There will be blood. In Greenland, and here.
#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-15 09:50 AM | Reply
Of course, it didn't. It was never going to.
We're dealing with people who are extremists and who are running the strongest military in the world as an enforcement arm of an organized crime organization.
The US government is basically a mob operation at this point.
There's no defusing tension with those kind of people.
#7 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-15 10:38 AM | Reply
I'm genuinely curious why China or Russia is expected to just up and take Greenland, when Greenland is part of NATO.
Any Republicans want to paint me a picture?
#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-15 10:42 AM | Reply
#5 | Posted by Zed
Careful, pointing to an accurate historical example like the annexation of the Sudetenland will get posters like ballwasher's hackles up.
#9 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-15 10:42 AM | Reply
#6 | Posted by Zed
Internal conflict with NATO is the point.
At this point, it's undeniable that Trump is a foreign agent under Putin. Every action of his weakens the United States in precisely ways that Russia and China would benefit from.
#10 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-15 10:45 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
People around the world are following this closely and are scared.
#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-15 10:46 AM | Reply
Look at the bottom left of www.centcom.mil's webpage.
There are press releases in Russian: www.centcom.mil
In my 27 years of service in the US Army and beyond, I have never seen anything like that until Dummkopf Trumpf seized power on 20 Jan 2025.
#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-15 12:18 PM | Reply
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