Denmark Demands US Answers Regarding Greenland Allegations

[Voluntarist]

Denmark Demands US Answers Regarding Greenland Allegations

The Danish foreign minister has summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen to explain a media report alleging that American nationals linked to President Donald Trump are attempting to infiltrate Greenland and run covert influencing operations there.
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Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Denmark's foreign minister, said in a statement to the Ritzau news agency that Denmark was aware of foreign interest in Greenland and so it was unsurprising to hear of foreign influence attempts in connection with it.

"We can ascertain that there are continuously foreign actors showing interest in Greenland and its current position within the kingdom. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise if, in the near future, we see foreign attempts to influence the kingdom's future," Rasmussen said in his statement, originally in Danish, adding that his ministry had called in the American chargé d'affaires for a meeting.

"Any attempt at interference in the internal affairs of the kingdom will, of course, be unacceptable," he said.

DR had reported that at least three Americans with close connections to Trump were involved in the influencing operations, citing eight anonymous sources in both Denmark and the U.S., including government officials.

DR said it could not ascertain if the three men were working on their own initiative or given an official order, adding that they were being closely monitored by Danish authorities.

Trump told reporters in March that America will "go as far as we have to go" to gain control of Greenland. He also called U.S. ownership of the territory "an absolute necessity."
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Polling of Greenlanders indicates little appetite on the island for being absorbed into the U.S.

 

[Occam's Banana]

THREAD:

'Donald Trump: U.S. should purchase/annex Greenland from Denmark'

Aug 15, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/15/donald-trump-greenland-purchase-denmark

All of it. Unclear if it would be on behalf of the US government or himself. It i also unknown if Denmark is even willing to sell it.

Donald Trump is fond of bragging about his conspicuous wealth and buying power, plastering his name over buildings and gilding the elevators of Trump Tower. But his latest reported aspiration is on the extravagant side, even for him: to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the US president has “expressed interest” in buying...

• Zippyjuan
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[nikcers]

Denmark owning Greenland is just a story they tell.

Storys don't have the power to hold onto territory.

Only the capability to defend your territory is the true power that holds onto territory.

The truth is that the USA has been defending Greenland from being conquered since World War 2 at great costs using tremendous amounts of energy.

Denmark is just a useless energy vampire. They could have just sold us the territory but they chose instead to steal our energy.

 

[acptulsa]

The truth is that the USA has been defending Greenland from being conquered since World War 2

From whom, bot?

I wasn't aware there was anyone -- anyone -- who wants it.

 

[nikcers]

From whom, bot?

I wasn't aware there was anyone -- anyone -- who wants it.

Powerful nations that want more territory that dont give a fuck about storys other people tell.

In the 1940s it was the natzis. We won that war.

Imagine winning a war and people waking up one day out of the blue and claiming that they really won the war.

 

[acptulsa]

In the 1940s it was the natzis.

Do tell us about Hitler's big Greenland offensive.

 

[nikcers]

Do tell us about Hitler's big Greenland offensive.

Thats the history we tell in our history books. We say we invaded Greenland and occupied it so that the nazis couldn't.

"The history of free men is never really written by chance--but by choice--their choice."

-Eisenhower

We even planted a great big military base there so that other nations couldn't take it and defended it.

Do you think other countries give a fuck about the storys other people tell?

Do the Russians give a fuck that the Ukrainians tell a story that they have lived in Ukraine for 1000s of years?

Does the Chinese Communist party give a fuck whether the Tibetans tell a story that they ruled the region for 1000s of years?

Does the United States give a fuck whether the indians and mexicans tell a story that ruled the Americas for 1000s of years?

Did India give a fuck about the story the British told them that they rule that territory?

 

[nikcers]

Do tell us about Hitler's big Greenland offensive.

In 1940, after the fall of Denmark to Germany, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered United States troops to occupy Greenland, a Danish possession in the North Atlantic of vital strategic interest to the United States.

 

[acptulsa]

Powerful nations that want more territory that dont give a fuck about storys other people tell.

In 1940, after the fall of Denmark to Germany, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered United States troops to occupy Greenland, a Danish possession in the North Atlantic of vital strategic interest to the United States.

Whose side are you on, bot?

 

[nikcers]

Whose side are you on, bot?

You can't serve two masters.

 

[acptulsa]

You can't serve two masters.

I don't serve one, sycobot.

 

[nikcers]

I don't serve one, sycobot.

Well if you're not the master of your own destiny then that just makes you a puppet.

 

[acptulsa]

Well if you're not the master of your own destiny then that just makes you a puppet.

So, I say I serve no other, and you try to use a figure of speech to twist that into meaning the exact opposite? And when did you stop beating your wife, childish bot?