There are some people who don’t find the Donroe Doctrine, i.e., Donald Trump’s delusions of taking over the entire world, to be especially amusing. Two of those people are the Prime Minister of the UK and the Prime Minister of Denmark, which owns and controls Greenland whether Trump likes it or not. The Guardian:
Asked by the BBC if he agreed with Danish calls for Trump to stop raising the idea that the US should annex the island, which is largely autonomous but remains part of the Danish kingdom, Starmer replied: “Yes.”
He went on: “Greenland and the kingdom of Denmark are to decide the future of Greenland, and only Greenland and the kingdom of Denmark.
“Denmark is a close ally in Europe, it is a Nato ally, and it’s very important the future of Greenland is, as I say, for the kingdom of Denmark, and for Greenland, and only for Greenland and the kingdom of Denmark.”
Following the US’s seizure of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president, after a military raid on the country, Trump has reiterated his desire to take Greenland, saying: “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it.”
Hours after the raid in Venezuela, Katie Miller, a rightwing podcaster who is married to Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, on Saturday posted on X a map of Greenland draped in the stars and stripes with the caption: “SOON.”
Speaking on Sunday, Frederiksen said: “It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the US needing to take over Greenland. The US has no right to annex any of the three countries in the Danish kingdom.” The third part of the kingdom is the Faroe Islands.
What makes sense in the real world and what makes sense to the *mind* of Trump are two different things. Now you can put Greenland on the list with Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico, places where Trump is threatening to “take over” as if this was just a matter of walking in and posting a flag somewhere. Trump hasn’t spoken about annexing Canada recently, maybe he’s forgotten all about that.
The worst thing in my mind, is that when people tell tRump he can’t/shouldn’t do something, that just seems to reinforce his desire to do it. I hope that’s not the case this time.
Canada will be there for Greenland and our other NATO allies. After Waltz’s speech today at the UN, I suspect the trump administration will be given a stark choice: either cut the crap with Greenland, or get the hell out of NATO.
Denmark and Canada, both targets of Trumpian imperialist rhetoric, belong to NATO. One American boot on the ground of either country (or Greenland) would invoke Article 5, which states that an attack on any member is considered an attack on all. That’s not mere rhetoric. Trump may not comprehend this but his military advisors do. They’ll advise him to go bully some other country outside NATO.
47 is demented. At least 3 times getting the cognitive test. How many MRI’s (or were they really CT Scans?) His brain is atrophying. He has Greenland on his demented mind and it will not leave.
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