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wcmagumba

(6,680 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 02:53 PM Jan 2026

I find the whole idea of the US taking control of Greenland from Denmark completely nuts...

It is a sovereign nation for Gods sake. Also, the Venezuela so called "takeover". Kidnapping a country's leader because we don't "like" him or his policies when they have not attacked the US is wrong and opens the door for other countries to do the same...geez...

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I find the whole idea of the US taking control of Greenland from Denmark completely nuts... (Original Post) wcmagumba Jan 2026 OP
It appears Americans will have to accept Trump's crimes. Irish_Dem Jan 2026 #1
If we try this Jilly_in_VA Jan 2026 #2
It is what Putin wants Johonny Jan 2026 #8
He's clearly allowed to do whatever he likes. MontanaMama Jan 2026 #3
Half of me thinks it's talk and bluster, a distraction Torchlight Jan 2026 #4
Nutlick has mining interests there- they are going in, it's not if but when. Blues Heron Jan 2026 #5
Why can't the companies that have an interest in the minerals work with Denmark/Greenland... LakeVermilion Jan 2026 #6
The whole idea of KRASNOV being pResident is completely nuts. UTUSN Jan 2026 #7
Unfortunately JustAnotherGen Jan 2026 #9
So nothing we can do except sit her and watch them Jilly_in_VA Jan 2026 #10
There are a lot of stupid people in the United States JustAnotherGen Jan 2026 #11
I think the whole of us on DU and the majority of us in the country hamsterjill Jan 2026 #12
The USA has followed a path of militaristic self-destruction ever since WWII Mysterian Jan 2026 #13

Jilly_in_VA

(14,644 posts)
2. If we try this
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 02:58 PM
Jan 2026

we are asking for the EU to turn on us. Maybe even start a war with us. We will be alone in the world. I don't think even Putin and Xi will go along with it.

MontanaMama

(24,758 posts)
3. He's clearly allowed to do whatever he likes.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 02:59 PM
Jan 2026

Nobody stopped him yet. I don’t see anything changing in the short time.

Torchlight

(7,102 posts)
4. Half of me thinks it's talk and bluster, a distraction
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 03:04 PM
Jan 2026

The other half of me thinks he really is that foolish and would see it done by hook or by crook, and damned the consequences because he's got his. I do understand that every media minute given to reporting on this is one media minute less of reporting about the Trumpstein tapes, but I also understand his mind just really isn't there and he may be actually trying to legislate his dementia into policy.

LakeVermilion

(1,655 posts)
6. Why can't the companies that have an interest in the minerals work with Denmark/Greenland...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 03:28 PM
Jan 2026

and pay for the rights to the minerals. We have a mining company from South America looking to mine nickel/copper in Minnesota. Chinese companies own iron mines in America. Krasnov just wants a cut of the profits, so he bullies his way in.

JustAnotherGen

(38,124 posts)
11. There are a lot of stupid people in the United States
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 04:36 PM
Jan 2026

They cared more about oppression or being adjacent to the oppressors- than they did the Constitution.

I would say take a page from the book of Move, Fred Hampton, the Deacons, Angela Davis . . .

The playbook is there. Shit - folks could even look to the Revolution or the CSA. There are paths to take - but the people who can "get away with it" refuse to lose a few lives for the cause.

Mysterian

(6,670 posts)
13. The USA has followed a path of militaristic self-destruction ever since WWII
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 05:15 PM
Jan 2026

The trumped up Gulf of Tonkin bullshit to escalate the Vietnam War and the disaster that followed. Evil interference of Latin American governments. Trumped-up lies by the Cheney-Bush cabal to invade Iraq. Now likely the final act in the self-destruction of a country that had so much potential to be a good and happy place. We had it made, with economic prosperity and a flawed but functional constitutional republic ..... and the evil republican party destroyed it all.

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