Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said he was both “sad and grateful” after President Donald Trump reiterated his intention to secure the self-governing Danish territory for the U.S.
The prime minister added that “our decisions are made here” on the strategically important Arctic island.
Trump tapped Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, a Republican, to be his special envoy to Greenland with a mission of making the world’s largest island a part of the U.S. Trump sees Greenland as vital to U.S. national security because of increasing Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic and the island’s rich deposits of critical minerals.
But Trump’s insistence that he will have Greenland has angered not only Greenlanders but also Denmark and other European allies of the U.S., who have been vocal in their opposition to the White House’s approach to claiming a Danish territory for itself. The U.S. already has a military base on Greenland.
Nielsen said in a statement on Facebook, originally in Danish, that he was “sad because at a press conference last night the American president once again expressed a desire to take over Greenland.”
“With such words, our country is reduced to a question of security and power. That is not how we see ourselves, and that is not how we in Greenland can or should be spoken about,” Nielsen added.
He continued: "We are a people with a long history, a strong culture, and a vibrant democracy. We are a country that takes responsibility for our own territory and for our own future. Our territorial integrity and our right to self-determination are anchored in international law and cannot simply be ignored.
That is why I am also grateful. Thank you to those of you at home for the clear support and solidarity that have been shown. The calmness and dignity with which you have met the situation send a clear signal of a people who stand firm in their values and their responsibility."
Nielsen also extended thanks to “government leaders and partners around the world who have clearly and unequivocally expressed their respect for Greenland, for our democratic institutions, and for the fundamental principles of international law. That support confirms that we here at home do not stand alone.”
He added: “Once again: Greenland is our country. Our decisions are made here. And I will at all times fight for our freedom and our right to decide for ourselves and shape our future.”
Stop downplaying his direct threats against another sovereign nation as a distraction. This is a serious issue and people ignoring it and calling it nothing are part of the problem.
stop downplaying the fact that Trump was a major figure in a child sex-trafficking ring and is actively participating in its cover-up, along with he DoJ which is openly breaking the law in order to help facilitate this. Worse, Trump is attempting to start a war with Venezuela in order to distract from this.
this is a serious issue and people ignoring it and calling it nothing are part of the problem
edit: ITT - people defending pedophiles
Please show me the meme where I said any of that. I’ll wait.
I’m not downplaying anything. You’re the one saying threatening to kick of a global war this is just a distraction. This is deadly serious and needs to be treated as such. Posting the same stupid meme on everything is not helping.
Please show me the meme where I said any of that. I’ll wait.
I’m not downplaying anything.
You’re the one saying threatening to kick of a global war this is just a distraction.
so? that’s not “downplaying” or “ignoring” anything
Posting the same stupid meme on everything is not helping.
misinterpreting my intentions and then throwing tantrum while hurling false accusations isn’t helping.
if you don’t like the meme, downvote and move on
No, I’ll always speak up when I feel there’s a problem like someone claiming the US invading another country is just a distraction. If you don’t like that downvote and move on.
it is a distraction. that’s a fact.
you misinterpreting of me pointing that out is your mistake, not mine.
you inserting your own meaning by falsely accusing me of “downplaying” or “ignoring” anything? also your mistake.
you said that not me
It can be a distraction and a serious threat at the same time.
This thread is for discussing his threats against Greenland and Denmark. This is a serious issue. Then you come in and distract from that conversation by reposting a stupid meme about Epstein.
The word “distraction” implies taking focus from a primary task or goal, which is why you’re getting downvoted.
If you want to see actual pedophile apologists, just look at the Epstein Act’s authors who gave complete authority on what documents to release to Trump and Bondi under the guise of “national security,” as well as all the politicians who’ve been keeping these documents hidden from the public eye for the past 6 years.
Gatekeeping pedophile apologism… How brave
Damn buddy you really love to double down on everything when shown why you’re wrong. You don’t happen to currently work as a White House staffer, do you?
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Show me where I said otherwise
Typhoon: when you call invasion threats a mere distraction you downplay the risk and how upset we are about that.
bklyn: no u, u pedo
Idk if I’d call kicking off WWIII to continue to protect the elite pedophiles contained in those files a distraction from the Epstein files? Maybe a feature not a bug situation?
Sending 1 Jeffrey to distract from another?
“I’d like to speak to the manager of Greenland!”
The US base should be seized and all Americans expelled from Greenland for these threats.
That would be a net loss for everyone.
Idk how any of this works legally, but use your enemies weaknesses to your advantage
- They have plenty of might, but intelligence is in very short supply. When they want to provoke a response always be sure to use your brain before brawn.
2.Never forget they rely on playing the victim. The harder you make it for them to sell the narrative that this is anything other than a very expensive, very unnecessary, and very unwelcome invasion, the more support they lose.
- Hit them in their pockets where it actually hurts. Which ties back to point 2. They don’t give a fuck about democracy and the American people. They care about the corporations and their donations. Boycott the shit out of any corporation that doesn’t stand up to this bullshit.
"We are a people with a long history, a strong culture, and a vibrant democracy. We are a country that takes responsibility for our own territory and for our own future. Our territorial integrity and our right to self-determination are anchored in international law and cannot simply be ignored.
Nielsen also extended thanks to “government leaders and partners around the world who have clearly and unequivocally expressed their respect for Greenland, for our democratic institutions, and for the fundamental principles of international law. That support confirms that we here at home do not stand alone.”
I envy people who have the privilege of living under this kind of leadership.
Learn from the mistakes America has made as these confederate shit stains have attempted to strip away autonomy of local government city by city and state by state.
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Stick together and remember their strategy is to divide and conquer one by one. What happens to your neighbor will happen to you next.
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It will never under any circumstances be to your benefit to play nice. DO NOT give these bastards a fucking
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Bleed them dry with lawsuits at every turn, fine them, hold them up in court, waste their time with unnecessary bureaucratic paperwork, use the law to your advantage.
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Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
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Stop being so civil and polite with Trump. Tell him to fuck off.
No, too much ire, and too little dignity in that. Laugh at him, ridicule him. And if/when Landry arrives kettle him in, and run him in circles, all the while laughing in his face.
That’s a given.
The whole world should be telling him to fuck off
Is this when we pretend that nobody in Greenland actually wants to be part of the US, and if they do then they don’t matter?
Remember that about 12-20% of any population are stupid enough to stand on their own necks.
Are you…? Are you trying to neg Greenland into going out with you?
If they want to be part of the US they’re welcome to try to emigrate to the US. But given that’s only about 15% of the population, I believe the correct sentiment is: get the fuck out of here with that.
Go ahead and provide us with a source proving that the majority of Greenland citizens want to join the US, then.
I can wait.
Words right out of the mouth of every fascist invader everywhere.
I guess the answer is yes.
They’re not even a real country anyway.
Not while the orange man is running it…
You did mean the USA, didn’t you?
It was a reference to the song “Blame Canada” from the film “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut”.
The joke was that they are a colony, not a sovereign country. But that was apparently missed.
Just post the video instead of explaining it; we’re apparently out of the “cultural reference that will generally land” after 25 years. Plus then these poor folk who haven’t seen it can appreciate the wonder. It was nominated for an academy award for cripes sake!
The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 72nd Academy Awards (1999). This created controversy because all nominated songs are traditionally performed during the Oscar broadcast, but the song contained the word fuck, which the FCC prohibits using in prime time broadcasts. At the awards ceremony, comedian Robin Williams performed the song with a chorus that gasped when the word was to be sung (Williams turned around at the crucial moment and did not actually sing it…
we’re apparently out of the “cultural reference that will generally land” after 25 years.
Does this mean…
No…not now. After all these years…
I’m…I’m…Old!!!
I just had to explain to my kid that there was a band that existed before “that Shrek song all-star” was made
Good thing they didn’t nominate “Uncle Fucka”. Oscar Hammerstein would shit his pants.
I think H. would have appreciated the spirit. Lots of his songs were edgy–given the time and genre he was writing for. Officer krupke in West side story, for example.
Game would have respected game. H. Probably would have had more trouble understanding how mon-u-fucking-mentally stupid a world driven by greed could have become. He would have been much less concerned with animated movie song lyrics.
That was my thought too. Wasn’t sure if you meant the confederates that have taken over the U.S. government and are trying to help Russia create it’s 3rd empire? Because they haven’t turned us into the American Federation. (At least not yet anyway).
A Map of Russia’s Third Empire (2053) The predictions in Putin’s favorite book
It’s the year 2053, and the world looks very different from today. There are no more than 5 superstates left on the face of the planet:
• an American Federation, covering the whole of North and South America;
• an Indian Confederation, consisting of present-day India and Birma/Myanmar (Bangladesh seems to have disappeared under the sea);
• an Asian republic dominated by China, further composed of Mongolia, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand;
• an Islamic Caliphate, occupying the whole of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Indonesia;
• and the Russian Empire, uniting Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, all of Europe and Greenland.
All states except the Russian Empire own a slice of Antarctica (I suppose that in exchange, Russia rules the North Pole all by itself).
It’s a reference to the South Park movie.
lol omfg that is some delusional shit
Is it? Because the novel also literally predicted the invasion of Ukraine down to a scary level of detail, and now Trump is trying to claim Greenland like we all just forget who he calls Daddy.
Putin Is Just Following the Manual A utopian Russian novel predicted Putin’s war plan.
Mikhail Yuriev’s 2006 utopian novel, The Third Empire: Russia as It Ought to Be, anticipates—with astonishing precision—Russia’s strategy of hybrid war and its recent military campaigns: the 2008 war with Georgia, the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the incursion into the Donetsk and Luhansk regions the same year, and Russia’s current assault on Ukraine.
Oh yeah, they were saying similar stuff about Canada, weren’t they?
