Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control
Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control
The huge package is announced after the president-elect said US ownership of Greenland was a "necessity".
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The Danish government has announced a huge boost in defence spending for Greenland, hours after US President-elect Donald Trump repeated his desire to purchase the Arctic territory. Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said the package was a "double digit billion amount" in krone, or at least $1.5bn (£1.2bn). He described the timing of the announcement as an "irony of fate". On Monday Trump said ownership and control of the huge island was an "absolute necessity" for the US. Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, is home to a large US space facility and is strategically important for the US, lying on its shortest route to Europe. It has major mineral and oil reserves.
Holy shit. How the hell do people not put a fist in Trumps face every time he says something?
Well one guy tried to place a bullet in his head. So you can't say people aren't trying.
He wants Panama Canal and Greenland and he isn’t even president yet.
Technically, this is very remotely about Europe ;)
If the US President goes on like that, the US are going to lose control over Greenland beyond what is minimally necessary for Greenlandic and Danish NATO membership, possibly even less.
US Presidents have no right to decide over Greenlanders and Denmark.
I don't like this timeline we're living in...
New top of the list of the dumbest ways possible to start world war three...
It’s probably about resources, since the US already have military bases in Greenland and it’s part of NATO.
It's probably about a mix of Trump's massive ego and his incompetence in global politics.
He's got the military to back up his ego/incompetence so tbh this is actually scary
I am literally so sick of hearing this dude saying a bunch of bullshit about tariffs or how he's gonna grab this country or that country every fucking day. He clearly just loves seeing headlines about himself, and the peanut gallery (us normal people, not actual world leaders) love getting outraged by it every day without actually doing shit (not that we can, not really). It was fucking exhausting the first time around.
How the fuck did the Dems lose to this, I swear to god.