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U.S. relinquished any claim to Greenland in 1916 (Original Post) Tanuki Jan 10 OP
K&R spanone Jan 10 #1
Greed and ignorance kill malaise Jan 10 #2
+1. Paperwork means nothing to the rapist dalton99a Jan 10 #3
Imperial powers, dividing up stuff leftstreet Jan 10 #4
People and stuff malaise Jan 10 #5
Exactly what chump and the oil companies were doing BidenRocks Jan 10 #12
Same for our phony invasion of IRAQ popsdenver Jan 10 #24
"Cheney/Rumsfeld could divide IRAQ up among six U.S. Oil Companies." Yup, you nailed it. Follow the money.nt mitch96 Jan 10 #28
Yup popsdenver Jan 11 #29
Biden's fault. twodogsbarking Jan 10 #6
Thanks, Obama. JoseBalow Jan 10 #7
Trump doesn't honor agreements, even the ones he makes. surfered Jan 10 #8
Erasing history is important for MAGA IronLionZion Jan 10 #9
I guess it's been caught in the right wing's craw since grampy Trump did the draft dodge out of... Hugin Jan 10 #10
These don't mean anything anymore. We were supposed to defend Ukraine Arazi Jan 10 #11
Might not want to ask the Kurds! BidenRocks Jan 10 #13
Exactly. Trump can do what ever the fuck he wants apparently. progressoid Jan 10 #18
Trump keeps claiming Russia and China are going to take over Greenland. OnlinePoker Jan 10 #14
trump has never honored agreements he, himself, made. Why would he honor agreements others made? nt Wounded Bear Jan 10 #15
All I see is "Denmark's rights to Greenland were confirmed". But where? How? Callie1979 Jan 10 #16
Denmark extending their interests to the whole of Greenland ... TomWilm Jan 10 #23
Thanks very much! Callie1979 Jan 10 #27
As confirmed by the US in 2004 with a new defense agreement ... TomWilm Jan 10 #17
Thanks for this Bayard Jan 10 #19
Screenshot for the Twitterless FakeNoose Jan 10 #20
K&R Bayard Jan 10 #21
I just hope tfg does not just start sending troops to the airbase in G'land.. More and more troops and then mitch96 Jan 10 #22
Or... Wednesdays Jan 10 #25
During the run up to the Vietnam war there was the false flag Tolkin Gulf incident... Our reason to escalate..uff mitch96 Jan 11 #31
The full treaty: "Convention between the United States and Denmark for cession of the Danish West Indies." sop Jan 10 #26
K&R orangecrush Jan 11 #30
Problem is, there's news out there, that the few Greenlanders have been drifting UTUSN Jan 11 #32
A little history on how the US agreed in 1916 to Denmark's control of Greenland in exchange for the Virgin Islands. LetMyPeopleVote Jan 11 #33

BidenRocks

(2,922 posts)
12. Exactly what chump and the oil companies were doing
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:34 PM
Jan 10

just the other day about Venezuela.
They were carving it up!

This isn't yours to cut up!

popsdenver

(1,835 posts)
24. Same for our phony invasion of IRAQ
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:27 PM
Jan 10

The entire U.S. Military, and taxpayer money spent, so that Cheney/Rumsfeld could divide IRAQ up among six U.S. Oil Companies.
The expenses for the IRAQ war are still continuing to mount...Injured, maimed soldiers, replacement of arms used, etc.
The current estimate for the U.S., so far, (for the total U.S. cost of the IRAQ war), just passed TWO TRILLION DOLLARS and still counting....
Rumsfeld told us the IRAQ invasion, was going to be over in THREE DAYS, the citizens of IRAQ would be lining the streets throwing flowers at our troops leaving, and the total cost to the U.S. Taxpayers would be THREE BILLION dollars, which would be repaid by IRAQ owned oil companies, from the sales of the countries oil in the first year.......

Greenland can't put up much resistance, I think their entire population is something like 50,000 people.
Putin desperately needs/wants not only Greenland, but Iceland, Northern Canada, and even Alaska if he can get it back.....
And Trump/Republicans will try and get it so that Putin won't disgrace them all with Kompromat collected over decades, along with all the Ton of Epstein material Putin possesses......

If Trump and Republicans go into Greenland, The other NATO countries will have to come from Europe to help defend Greenland from the U.S. (and Russia), and Trump will leave NATO........Greenland will be conquered without the U.S. to defend them, and the European NATO countries won't be able to help Greenland and also defend themselves form Putin's invasions, just like Hitler in WWII.

mitch96

(15,709 posts)
28. "Cheney/Rumsfeld could divide IRAQ up among six U.S. Oil Companies." Yup, you nailed it. Follow the money.nt
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 08:41 PM
Jan 10

popsdenver

(1,835 posts)
29. Yup
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 11:26 AM
Jan 11

Haliburton and other oil companies ...Zillions in Profits, U.S. Taxpayers paying for it..... Two Trillion and still counting.......

All the while, in the last 45+years:

"They" were walking down the Jungle Path, swatting at mosquitoes, and completely oblivious to the herd of charging elephants"
Pun intended..............

The perfect title for a book about the last 45+ years would be: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT

surfered

(12,235 posts)
8. Trump doesn't honor agreements, even the ones he makes.
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:13 PM
Jan 10

During his second term, he imposed tariffs on those countries, effectively reneging the previous agreement he made, calling it “ a bad deal.”

IronLionZion

(50,989 posts)
9. Erasing history is important for MAGA
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:14 PM
Jan 10

they learn history only from confederate statues, not from any books, schools, or museums.

Hugin

(37,584 posts)
10. I guess it's been caught in the right wing's craw since grampy Trump did the draft dodge out of...
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:18 PM
Jan 10

The Kaiser’s empire.

I knew about Panama and Cuba. But, I have to admit this Greenland stuff caught me flat footed.

Arazi

(8,771 posts)
11. These don't mean anything anymore. We were supposed to defend Ukraine
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:24 PM
Jan 10

By signing the Budapest Agreement in 1994, we guaranteed Ukraine’s sovereignty and vowed to protect them if they gave up their nukes.

Now we’ve basically thrown them to the wolves and given them half-assed support insufficient to finish the Russians, ensuring Putin has had enough time to re-tool.

Greenland agreement from 1916?!!

Sigh…

OnlinePoker

(6,104 posts)
14. Trump keeps claiming Russia and China are going to take over Greenland.
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:12 PM
Jan 10

Russia can barely advance in Ukraine and China won't even go after Taiwan. It's laughable that either country would try go after Greenland.

Wounded Bear

(63,949 posts)
15. trump has never honored agreements he, himself, made. Why would he honor agreements others made? nt
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:18 PM
Jan 10

Callie1979

(1,222 posts)
16. All I see is "Denmark's rights to Greenland were confirmed". But where? How?
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:41 PM
Jan 10

Cane we read the agreement?

TomWilm

(1,955 posts)
23. Denmark extending their interests to the whole of Greenland ...
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:20 PM
Jan 10
1917 DECLARATION BETWEEN DENMARK AND THE US ABOUT GREENLAND

In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.






TomWilm

(1,955 posts)
17. As confirmed by the US in 2004 with a new defense agreement ...
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:42 PM
Jan 10
2004 Agreement Between The Government Of The United States Of America And The Government Of The Kingdom Of Denmark, Including The Home Rule Government Of Greenland.

... Thule Air Base is the only defense area in Greenland. ...

Signatories: Colin Powell (US), Per Stig Møller (Denmark), and Josef Motzfeldt (Greenland).


Bayard

(28,947 posts)
21. K&R
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:09 PM
Jan 10

trump--Sit down, and shut up!

I'd like to see Rachel Maddow do her thing about this, and the 2004 agreement. Publicize widely.

mitch96

(15,709 posts)
22. I just hope tfg does not just start sending troops to the airbase in G'land.. More and more troops and then
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:19 PM
Jan 10

some false flag operation to justify taking over Greenland..
It's in the dictators play book...
Like ruzzia retaliating for the attack on putins home that never happened...uff
m

Wednesdays

(21,830 posts)
25. Or...
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 05:19 PM
Jan 10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident

The Gleiwitz incident ... was a false flag attack on the radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz (then Germany and now Gliwice, Poland) staged by Nazi Germany on the night of 31 August 1939. Along with some two dozen similar incidents, the attack was manufactured by Germany as a casus belli to justify the invasion of Poland. Prior to the invasion, Adolf Hitler gave a radio address condemning the acts and announcing German plans to attack Poland, which began the next morning. Despite the German government using the attack as a justification to go to war with Poland, the Gleiwitz assailants were not Polish but were German SS officers wearing Polish uniforms.


I smell a perfect job brewing for the Proud Boys and ex-J6'ers!

mitch96

(15,709 posts)
31. During the run up to the Vietnam war there was the false flag Tolkin Gulf incident... Our reason to escalate..uff
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 03:17 PM
Jan 11

Later investigation revealed that the 4 August attack did not happen..
m

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

sop

(17,854 posts)
26. The full treaty: "Convention between the United States and Denmark for cession of the Danish West Indies."
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 06:23 PM
Jan 10

See "Declaration" on page 6 regarding Greenland.

https://loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1916DanishWestIndies.pdf

UTUSN

(77,257 posts)
32. Problem is, there's news out there, that the few Greenlanders have been drifting
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 03:32 PM
Jan 11

away from Denmark towards wanting independence, with Denmark sort of over a barrel whether to die on the hill of defending against KRASNOV since the bond is weak.




LetMyPeopleVote

(176,366 posts)
33. A little history on how the US agreed in 1916 to Denmark's control of Greenland in exchange for the Virgin Islands.
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 04:05 PM
Jan 11

The US signed a treaty with Denmark trading the Virgin Islands for Greenland. trump wants to ignore this treaty



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