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by burnerRhodov3 21 days ago
Europe has a hugely shrinking demographic, and is actively decoupling from the United States. There's almost no innovation and you are making the mistake of getting in bed with China and constantly suing our tech companies.

Europe needs to focus more on Europe and less US politics.
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fooster 21 days ago
This might have something to do with the US president threatening to attack Greenland? Decoupling from the US is the only sane thing to do.
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burnerRhodov3 21 days ago
Denmark has a freakin' King. You guys are still a monarchy... Greenland is closer to the US than Europe, and we defended and gave back demark during WW2.

Demark provides almost no financial support to Greenland, and can't defend it. It will prove to be very strategically important as the ice caps melt.

Russia invaded Ukraine, and Demark lets russia use the Danish straights to transport oil despite the US asking them to not allow them entry. Demark has no way to protect it's own straits, how is it suppose to stop an invasion of Greenland from russia? How is it supposed to impose order and control the north artic if it can't even protect it's own straights?

These are very real security concerns from then US that a monarch can't address.

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fooster 21 days ago
All of that aside it is not American territory and it won’t be unless it is taken by force against the will of the people that live there (and Denmark). People don’t like be threatened in particular by countries which they’re allied with.
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burnerRhodov3 20 days ago
kinda like the Thule?

Today, Greenland is recognized as an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark. They are fighting for their own independence currently, and do not want to be ruled by Denmark.

Lastly, he never "threatened to take it by force". When cornered by a reporter on whether the military was off the table, he said nothing is ever off the table in a negotiation. After all that, Demark and the EU poured billions into Greenland for defense.

It took the guise of threats for the EU to finally step up on defense.

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etc-hosts 19 days ago
"Lastly, he never "threatened to take it by force"."

You're funny.

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