4mo ago

Vance slams Denmark for not keeping Greenland safe from Russia, China

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Summary

JD Vance criticized Denmark for failing to protect Greenland from Russian and Chinese incursions during a visit to the U.S. military base in Pituffik.

While pledging respect for Greenland's sovereignty, Vance announced increased U.S. naval presence without expanding ground forces.

Trump echoed the need for Greenland’s strategic importance to global security.

Greenland’s new prime minister condemned the visit as disrespectful, and public protests opposed U.S. influence. Trump’s administration continues to push for stronger U.S. involvement in the mineral-rich Arctic region.

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I am so tired of the fucking usa, wish they would just implode, fuck off, and leave everyone alone.
- I live there and basically... Yeah. I mean, it feels like we are on a direct course for implosion.
  Sorry the rest of you have to deal with our bullshit.
  
  I have to apologize. Venting is one thing, but I don't think I really have an excuse for that, so I'm going to leave it there and maybe I'll learn something. Having said that, the position this has put me in has been a nightmare to say the least. And I know I'm not the only one. The shit I've had to do in the last month alone to prepare for possible shtf is insane, and it's far from over. If it was just me alone, I'd be ok, but it's not. Just fuck. Sorry.
  
  I feel like i need to print T-shirts or make an alias username to say, "I'm sorry we suck."
  
  It would be cool if you and your fellow citizens (millions of you, not just the handful who have been shouting into the wind so far) got together and did something to prevent that implosion.
- As a citizen of fucking USA, I keep expecting to wake up one morning with bombs being dropped on us. And frankly, I fully welcome the bombs. Whatever keeps my family from reliving concentration camps.
  I've often wondered how I would have acted during the Nazi invasion of Poland. Apparently, the answer is "become paralyzed with fear and thank my luck every day that they didn't come for me."
  I've spent so much of my life trying to honor my family who died in the Holocaust by teaching kids about their lives and explaining how complacency will allow it to happen again. Yet here I am, metaphorically hiding under a blanket telling myself "but if the monster comes to get me, you know I'll get them then!"
  I hate living through all this and grown to hate myself over the snivelling inactive role I play.
  
  I keep waiting for mass resistance to kick off so I can join in, but it never does.
- Will probably happen sooner than we think.
  
  For real. Get me out of here man I don't wanna die in a failed state
- Maybe the measles will take em down
- All I can say is that it isn't all of us.
  The south have been like this since the founding, we took away their slaves and they never forgave us.
  Unfortunately social media means they aren't contained in their hell hole anymore, and we no longer have the strength to stop them.
But who can keep them safe from the Nazis in America?
So America already has bases there, and has free rein in its waters. That sounds like having all the benefits and none of the cost of having to have more land. Ah, he wants to strip mine it which he’s not allowed at the moment.
If you want to stop Russian incursions, stop cosying up to them you spineless twats.
The US made agreement with Denmark to do this in 1951. Instead, the US has gone from 10000 personel to 200 and closed the majority of their bases. From 17 to 1 base.
This is Danish foreign minister on the subject after it being clear that JD Vance has no idea what he's talking about
https://x.com/larsloekke/status/1905764027210547565
Ah, the Russia playbook. Make up a boogie man and claim you're saving the country from the boogie man. Krasnov is a bit too predictable.
what in the fuck leads him believe that Greenland is in danger?
- The only country threatening Greenland is his country.
  
  Yes. That's the very definition of a protection racket.
- It's a racket, a stick up job. "Nice country you've got, it would be a shame if anything happened to it. We can help you keep it safe, for a price."
- Projection
- Also, why do they get to talk like that when they're threatening their owm neighbours and former allies.
What incursions would those be, JD?
- The DARVO ones.
- Wait, it's Denmarks responsibilty to keep american troops safe in their own bases? If you don't feel safe, then what about fucking off?
Have Russia and China ever threatened Greenland? Because I can only think of one country that actually has.
Ironic. We (USA) can't keep safe from Russia or China either. And that's because of willful neglect.
Looks like they updated the title: "Vance accuses Denmark of not keeping Greenland safe from Russia, China"
But really, journalists don't need to pretend any of this is legitimate. Add a "dubiously" in there. This is obviously not a sincere complaint. Stop assuming good faith just because he's got an official title.
- But really, journalists don’t need to pretend any of this is legitimate.
  In 2016, I would have agreed with you. I think now, journalists' personal safety might be at risk if they don't fall in line.
  
  Plenty of other journalists posting anti Trump content without problem. If you're too scared to use words to mildly criticize power, you shouldn't be a journalist in the first place. They didn't become cowards due to Trump's new hyper fascism, they've been like that the whole time.
Who exactly is the intended audience?
- Same as it ever is. Their Russian handlers and their mouth breathing, Nazi loving supporters.
Russia can't even easily annex confining countries with lots of roads and rails, how they would even try to get to Greenland with all those NATO countries in the middle.
China would even need to circumnavigate the Americas to reach it
I feel there's another dictatorship that's more dangerous than those two
- In the middle? Have you ever seen a globe? They would go across the Arctic.
  That's why there are American airbases and NATO radar stations up there.
  
  But then you need to buy into the conspiracy theory that the earth is round
Journalists need to quit acting as uncritical flying monkeys for the fascists' DARVO tactics.
They paid almost 3 percent and now are upping it TO 3 percent of their total gdp on defense. They are in line with it.
Vance and trump are so ego based and dumb af.
- Denmark 0.97 1.09 2.16 1.95 1.49 1.85 1.84 4.08 3.07 2.64 2.29 (2014-2024estimated)
  Source: https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2024/6/pdf/240617-def-exp-2024-en.pdf
  Considering that the "old" benchmark was 2%... They didn't even make that number for years. Only stepping up and consistently paying when Russia actually started their invasion. And even then they are rapidly regressing back to the 2% number.
  
  So what your telling me, Is they've been paying?
  
  I was wondering about the average so I came back, turns out it's over 2 percent.
I always get a kick out of what vance is told to say.
This guy is so awkward he can't even casus belli properly.
Vance says whatever he's told to say.
- And his traitorous wife
Can Greenland’s leaders tell our idiots in charge to fuck themselves? Make that an official statement too
- They kinda did; that's why he visited just the base, without his wife.
People in Greenland and Denmark:
the problem with the fascists’ imperialist ideas of conquest is that they are all based on kernels of truth, it’s how they appeal to their base.
attack them there, not in the space of rational discourse in which they are advantaged. they hold no respect for reality or the truth.
- Could you elaborate with regards to this specific example?
  
  Russia is a threat to Greenland = true
  Leaving Denmark weakens Greenland’s security though
  So the idea that leaving would make them more secure is false
  
  sure.
  greenland is historically and definitely a part of denmark. then again, the sudetenland was definitely a part of bohemia/czechia.
  the united states is in a position to undertake an imperial conquest. i won’t claim any veracity for how long they might be able to hold on to any gains made, but they can make gains. i see a lot of people who live in places that are in the warpath of the trump party wanting to reject this idea online, sometimes out of ignorance, sometimes out of pride, sometimes for other reasons. the fact of the matter is that what the neofascist movement has been able to wrestle control of is the single largest, deadliest, and most effective military in the history of the earth. this isn’t american nationalism, it’s a rational analysis of the situation. most strategic flukes (eg, withdrawal from afghanistan) in america’s recent history have nothing to do with the military’s intrinsic capabilities; it has everything to do with american inexperience in the practice of imperialism. the military itself is actually like, incredibly fucking competent
  the only other power on earth of any similar degree is china. china has essentially engaged in a neocolonial economic conquest of africa over the course of the 21st century, reasserting historical norms of chinese preeminence over global affairs. do you really think they will be any better than the americans? no. they seek blood and iron as well.
  europe is not in a position to defend itself from america right now. i hope europeans realize this and vote in their own best interest to readily establish a pan european army as soon as possible. i know this is a controversial subject over there. but, this is the reality we live in.

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