r/worldnews • u/Zonactitier • 15h ago
You cannot annex other countries, Danish and Greenlandic leaders tell Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/22/denmark-summon-us-ambassador-trump-greenland-envoy-appointment/6.1k
u/casualfrog68 14h ago
Trump: But Putin is doing it. I wanna do it, too.
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u/toddywithabody 14h ago
Correction. Putin is trying to do it.
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u/humboldt77 14h ago edited 6h ago
Putin successfully did it with Crimea in 2014.
Edit: to all the pedantic whining about “Crimea isn’t a country” “Greenland is a country” read the article. Greenland is a part of the Denmark kingdom which can declare its independence, but has not. As of now, they are an autonomously governing part of Denmark. That’s why Denmark is a part of this conversation.
That is why the comparison to Crimea is valid. Trump wants to annex part of a country. Putin annexed Crimea, which was a part of Ukraine. And it doesn’t matter whether the global community “acknowledges” the annexation. Russia controls it now. They aren’t looking to the rest of the world to validate that they took it.
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u/Shadpool 14h ago edited 14h ago
And let’s be entirely honest, that was Putin testing the world’s response, just dipping his toes in the water. I loved Obama as a president, but the fact is, he didn’t do anything in response to the invasion of Crimea, and that led us to this point.
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u/_PROBABLY_CORRECT 14h ago
It was incomprehensible how bad the Crimea inaction was. It was a Schumer "I've written a strongly worded letter" bad response. I thought I was taking crazy pills at the time. Like, everyone is just gonna stand there? We all have principles but no one is... acting on the aggressor upsetting the world order? Da fuq
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u/Alfred_The_Sartan 14h ago
I remember Georgia being in the news when I was in college. I honestly thought that would be the last gasp of a reborn USSR, but nope. It was the beta test.
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u/Jordan_Jackson 8h ago
And now they are taking Georgia over from the inside. It is sad to see that pro Russian politicians have become the ruling party in Georgia. It is sad to see them adopt the same type of restrictive laws governing speech, demonstrations and general oppression of the populace that Russia has in place. Especially after how badly oppressed the nation of Georgia was under the USSR.
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u/LieuK 9h ago
Putin attacked only months before the 08 election. There was no way Bush was going to get involved in a war in Europe and Putin knew it. It really was a smart time to make a move, on his part, and it set the precedent for Crimea.
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u/brumbarosso 13h ago
I was thinking how Clancy's world was coming out and about
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u/e2hawkeye 9h ago
Can you imagine Tom Clancy living long enough to see all this bullshit?
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u/sickhippie 11h ago
It was incomprehensible how bad the Crimea inaction was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Russian_annexation_of_Crimea
These are both worth reading to understand what was actually going on then. Ukraine had boiled over into a full-blown revolution, kicked out their Russian puppet president, and were still sifting through the wreckage when Russia took over Crimea and in less than a month had replaced the government with a puppet government and held a rigged referendum announcing to the world that the "People of Crimea" actually wanted to be part of Russia.
In response, Russia was ostracized on a global level. Kicked out of the G8, a slew of sanctions again individual high-ranking Russians, trade and visa negotiations halted, trade restrictions and sanctions put in place, and the EU immediately started free trade negotiations with Ukraine.
The US sanctions and response focused on individual politicians and oligarchs, the EU sanctions and response focused on the country as a whole. This is a very smart way to break things up - Russian oligarchs had a lot of money tied up in the US that was now much harder to get to, and Russian businesses had a lot of trade tied up in Europe and Asia which was now ground to a halt.
Russian politicians and government officials were banned from travel to the US, Canada, and the EU. Russian businesses pulled their money out of the US markets. Financial and economic sanctions absolutely tanked Russia's economy. Russia's GDP in 2013 was $2.29T. In 2015 it was $1.36T, over 40% less.
That's a hell of a lot more than a "strongly worded letter".
It's easy to say "but it led to the Ukraine invasion", but it's also likely that it stopped Russia's immediate movement into Donbas and Ukraine at that point, which gave Ukraine enough recovery time to actually fight back.
That said, Obama was also fighting a GOP-controlled Congress. The same GOP whose high-ranking members would travel to Russia on the 4th of July a couple years later. Do you really think Obama could have convinced the GOP to go to war with their bosses?
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u/silentKero 10h ago
Obamas mistake was to follow the rules. What you’re supposed to is to send in the forces and attack. And then maybe ask congress. /s
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u/myassholealt 13h ago
I thought I was taking crazy pills at the time. Like, everyone is just gonna stand there?
Same reaction when all of a sudden Trump decided to attack Canada and many Americans said OK Canada is our enemy now.
Sports fans booing Oh Canada because Trump decided he wanted to be their enemy is the epitome of American "intelligence."
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u/mCopps 13h ago
And down south you might forget this with your next election. Don’t expect us to ever forget it.
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u/libmrduckz 13h ago
you’d be foolish to do otherwise…
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u/Ardalev 12h ago
Exactly. Americans have shown their true faces, whether it is with willing jingoism or through plain inaction
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u/HeavyTea 12h ago
I know the US has B1s, but I have a hockey stick and I will smash any aggressors in the chicklets!
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u/Pepsi_Popcorn_n_Dots 12h ago
Even crazier is Russia sent troops without insignia or ID so they could disavow if US/NATO responded with force! Absolutely learned nothing from 1930s Hitler.
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u/SeeerSucker 13h ago
But cmon guys. Let’s just give him a little bit of Europe. he’ll be happy and stop there.
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u/Sir_Michael_II 10h ago
That sure sounds familiar
A bit like these old stories I heard from about eighty/ninety years ago
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u/Rocinante88119 12h ago
As I understood it at the time, Ukraine's military was toothless during that time and trained up and expanded after in response to the theft of Crimea.
I don't know how much of that was just me accepting the first source I read.
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u/Ardalev 12h ago
And let's be even more honest, had the initial stages of the "3 day special operation" been a success and Zelenski fled the country and replaced with a puppet leader, the world would have accepted it the exact same as with Crimea!
I don't think we realise the sheer magnitude of how Zelenski's actions have managed to change future history
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u/The_Grungeican 10h ago
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Zelensky taking a stand was a very courageous thing to do. sometimes that's all it takes, one person.
that's why people like Trump and Putin hate him so much. it exposes how weak they are. it reminds me of Tank Man.
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u/Grexxoil 9h ago
I remember waking up these days from my comfortable home in Europe and the first thing I checked was if Kyiv fell.
Thank god it did not.
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u/Allaplgy 13h ago
You have to remember that Iraq was fresh on the mind. We had essentially just done a similar thing, and people were wary of more world policing.
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u/YoohooCthulhu 13h ago
Yeah, blame Bush
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u/Allaplgy 13h ago
I remember at the time saying "And this is an example of one reason the Iraq war was a horrible idea. We can't really complain about a country invading another on questionable pretenses when we just did exactly that."
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u/KnightsOfREM 13h ago
Crimea was preceded by Georgia, which had a similarly tepid response from the United States. We didn't care because it's a small country halfway around the world, so a few years later, Putin confiscated a larger area 40% of the way around the world. Next? Take your pick of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, or Belarus, depending on his mood.
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u/Prestigious-Clock-53 13h ago
Agreed with everything you said there. Cool it was objective and you were honest with yourself that even though you liked Obama overall, you didn’t like how he handled that issue. That’s called not being a sheep and instead being a critical thinker, and I wish you know those folks in America that voted in their current administration were able to do that, and not defend their leader as if he was their own father or cult leader, even when it’s evident he was a pedophile/ rapist who is corrupt as hell.
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u/Kind-Row-9327 11h ago
US has military bases all over the world and the world's most powerful army/navy/air force and they still feel unsecured?
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u/DootingDooterson 10h ago
China just sitting there laughing and waiting as the USA casually destroys all its international relationships in less than a year.
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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 7h ago
Even worst is that, with the regime China has, they don't have to worry about reelection. They're playing the long game. While PeDon is on a get-rich-quick scheme.
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u/Classic-Platypus7706 4h ago
Damn, it's not even been a year... It feels like the longest year in a while. I'm tired boss
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u/ThisMayBeMike 13h ago
Merry Christmas. Love waking up to threats from one of the biggest militaries in the world and supposed ally.
Never ever will I buy something American nor visit the country as I have planned for years. This is unbelievable.
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u/goldenbeans 8h ago
This is exactly what all of us in Europe and the rest of the world need to do, seriously stop buying American, stop visiting and giving them your money
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u/freexe 6h ago
What we actually need to do is build up independent supply lines for tech, manufacturing, intelligence and military.
Lines are being drawn in the sand all around the world and the EU is in the early stages of planning the food menu for the discussions on the response.
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u/Vr00mf0ndler 9h ago edited 8h ago
The US is obsessed with money so hit it where it hurts. I’ve also put any travels there on hold and rebalanced my (state pension) and private investments/portfolio to divest everything away from that market.
Edit: also replacing all services/subscriptions/future large buys. The way the US operates now is totally unacceptable.
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u/ayriuss 11h ago
Real Americans don't blame you one bit.
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u/Icy_Ninja_9207 11h ago
Real americans appereantly don‘t stand up towards the dictatorial takeover of their country
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u/faux_glove 9h ago
Everyone likes to say this until the decision they have to make is "work within the system to effect what change you can" or "get hostile about it and immediately die."
I should know, we were saying the same damn thing about any number of repressed countries not that long ago.
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u/KingKaiserW 6h ago
People imagine it like millions and millions of people will all collectively rise up, there will be so many people it’ll blot out the sun. Then the military runs its tanks on the capital.
But what if it’s just you and at best your buddy Steve? Now the we built different mentality goes away
It can happen anywhere
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u/BcMeBcMe 10h ago
But they had a protest 18th of October. What more do you want them to do.
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u/RemarkableAutism 10h ago
Protest daily and everywhere.
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u/Sad-Obligation-965 9h ago edited 9h ago
In France:
- 2–4% of the entire country protesting at once
- 1–3 million people in the streets is normal for pension reforms.
In USA;
- A “huge” protest = 50k–200k in a major city.
- Nationally synchronized protests might hit 500k–1M total — spread across 50 states.
- That’s ~0.15–0.3% of the country.
American protests are 20x smaller, They're symbolic. They don't represent an existential threat to a government.
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u/raregardens 9h ago
At least some of that is not correct. The No Kings protest had a 7m turnout
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u/Rokekor 9h ago
Yet the Americans think the French are the ‘surrender monkeys’…
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u/slugmorgue 8h ago
People are so damn gullible and easily propagandized it's unbelievable. They'll believe anything if they hear it repeated in media enough.
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u/Final-Pin-6439 8h ago
People make the joke, but its just that. A joke. Like how I say Canadians are the nicest people ever...until you get possession of the puck, then you best watch out. Or all Texans are cowboys. The trope about all Italians having fits over breaking spaghetti noodles.
Our Schools teach history, including how the French were our staunchest ally through our war for independence. Without the Frenchman and the desperately needed supplies they brought to us we would have lost the war entirely. Probably helps that the British were you're enemies at that time too. Honestly Idk much about US/French interactions in ww1, but in ww2 America helped the French with Lend Lease, and afterwards through the CARE packages, 1944 or so. When the attacks on September 11 happened I remember the French govt ,and others, lighting up buildings in American flag colors in shared grief over the innocent people who were murdered. Or when three Americans and a British man pulled together to stop the mass shooter attempt on that train in Paris.
We should pull together harder than ever right now. When a person is struggling, you help them. Some people want the chaos, some people push for it, and its my opinion that its the job of all of us to resist that.
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u/xtremis 10h ago
If only they had guns and a well trained militia or something 🤔
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u/BOBitech 9h ago
And some of their signs had very wity puns. It's amazing the administration survived such a barrage.
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u/funkandallthatjazz 10h ago
But, you as people voted for him and this, and that is somewhat hard to fathom.
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u/ayriuss 10h ago
We have a critical mass of propagandized morons. Its really bad.
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u/StrengthThin9043 8h ago
Indeed the propaganda in the US is not to be underestimated. The fall of American democracy has been decades in the making.
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u/MissingLink101 6h ago
It's harder to fathom that it was the second time. Once is a mistake, twice is pure idiocy.
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u/tismschism 6h ago
As an American this is exactly what you should do. We are getting strangled by authoritarianism over here. Do anything you can now before it can take root in your country.
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u/pelko34 12h ago
This is all fair. As an American that didn’t vote for this, I feel trapped. I am ashamed of my country. I’m sorry this has happened. 😔
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u/-SaC 14h ago
He doesn't take 'no' for an answer. Ask any number of children and women.
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u/Zhelthan 14h ago
War with Venezuela, war with Europe. War with Russia? Nah, they are friend
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u/MrPerfect4069 11h ago
Don’t forget about the ongoing war with Canada. The threats of annexation through economic turmoil is a war.
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u/Zhelthan 10h ago
True and after their war ends, war with the veterans because Trump don’t give a fuck even to those who follow his orders
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u/riverflop 10h ago
It’s absolutely mind boggling that his supporters approve of threatening a sovereign country. Essentially threatening a non-aggressive country because they have resources. Have they no shame?
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u/ForensicPathology 7h ago
This is the mindset of the people in power and the millions and millions who support them. They truly believe they can do anything and people will just accept it because they are USA.
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u/DarkNinjaPenguin 3h ago
A country founded on the principle of taking land from other people? Are we surprised?
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u/sask357 14h ago
As a Canadian I'd like to point out to Americans that Canada and Denmark were once considered important allies of your country. Now your government is threatening to annex us. You elected your government. At least Russia and China did not have what we consider elections.
It's not just Trump. Congress is doing nothing to stop him from trying to take over our countries.
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u/kandirocks 13h ago
USA is below the United Arab Emirates on the 2024 Corruption Perceptions index and still sinking.
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u/ShyguyFlyguy 13h ago
The US also isnt a legit democracy. Theyre borderline authoritarian regime masquerading as a democracy.
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u/ironedie 12h ago edited 10h ago
It was bad with how much power presidents had before Trump, he has proven that US president can be an actual autocrat, it was just a common courtesy not to be one before politics degraded to that level.
When your entire country's structure of power depends on human decency and gentleman's agreement not to abuse it you're pretty fucked once someone like trump joins.
Additional bonus is that lawmakers can later say - it wasn't us it was president, and not revert any of the policies at the same time to be mostly absolved of the responsibility and continue the course.
Presidential power in the US should be vastly reduced.
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u/GriffinFlash 9h ago
Seems like all they have to do is lie and scream "National Security" about anything, and it'll get passed. It's basically a dictatorship now.
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u/WTF-is-a-Yotto 11h ago
As a Canadian, lots of people get upset about us still being a Monarchy. Personally I’m okay with it because their one constitutional power is convenient. Like wouldn’t it be nice to be able to storm a palace and demand an immediate election right about now?
Americans should look into what happened in Taiwan when they did a sit in.
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u/splynncryth 12h ago
And calculate the millions who voted for Trump as well as those Congressional reps in the House and the Senate.
Even though the US system is deeply flawed such that it can be effectively controlled by 20% (possibly less) of the population, voting records show the actual percentage of people who voted for this in much higher.
Many are screaming ‘I didn’t vote for this’ but we have footage of campaign rallies where it shows this is exactly what Trump and the GOP ran on.
The problems run deep in US society and I can’t disagree with the plays being made by the rest of the world. I just hope some other nations will be willing to take in Americans refugees if this leads to a destabilized nation.
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u/TheManFromFarAway 14h ago
Cue the Americans telling us that "I didn't vote for him," and, "I'm so embarrassed about my country," and, "Keep boycotting our goods, we deserve it." Whether they like it or not, Trump is their representative. He is making decisions on their behalf. When he threatens to annex our countries he is threatening our freedoms, our sovereignty, and our lives. Embarrassment is not enough. Trying to be "one of the good ones" is not enough. He is their mess, but they are doing nothing but waiting for somebody else to come and clean it up for them. We know you didn't vote for him. We know you don't want this. How many lives, both at home and abroad, need to be destroyed before Americans actually do something about it?
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u/Hg-ws 7h ago
Close to 80 million in this country wanted this, and many millions more don't care. Miniorities have been pushing back and getting beat down. I try not to go out too much to avoid getting harassed by ICE since looking Mexican and having a Spanish name is enough for them to stop me and potentially inflict violence before they even bother verifying my citizenship.
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u/16sardim 13h ago
The hard part about en masse protests in America (No Kings being a good recent example), is that there's no ONE place that holds the key to power. Sure, the capitol is very visible, but it would be like asking everyone from Portugal to Greece to organize a protest against the EU by blockading Brussels. Sure, it can happen, but the decision making is decentralized enough that it's not going to guarantee success.
In France, who know how to protest with the best of them, if you shut down Paris that's a win. In the US, shutting down NYC, our largest city, wouldn't even register to the Senate as a nation-wide issue. To change America, you need to either disband federal control, or centralize the decision making (which has been slowly happening) for a protest to have stopping power.
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u/SandySpinach 12h ago
As a Belgian I can confirm this actually happens a lot. On a regular base EU protesters are blockading Brussels, as your fellow countrymen did last week: https://youtu.be/pmsy9N8kCN4?si=7NqNwoLiOdkXdvrh
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u/quebecesti 9h ago
The hard part about en masse protests in America (No Kings being a good recent example), is that there's no ONE place that holds the key to power
There are 60 million people living in a 300 mile radius of Washington DC, where the power is. That's France's population.
If Americans really wanted they could easily storm the capital with millions.
Don't tell me it wouldn't have an impact either. When the magats did it it was very noticeable.
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u/Chicken_Ingots 13h ago
This is historically why strikes have had far greater success in the United States, though the neoliberal era decimated unions which took decades to build. While there is a general sense of confusion and withdrawal domestically, the reality is that many people just do not know what to do and feel powerless to change anything. This is amplified by hyper individualism that the neoliberal era brought through competitive consumerism, producing social isolation and heightened anxiety.
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u/Quadratical 10h ago edited 10h ago
No Kings protest failed because it was a feckless protest aimed at showing anger for one day... then just patting themselves on the back for a job well done and leaving.
I'm pretty sure protests at the capital would be far more impactful than a bunch of disparate protests through the country, even if the latter would have more people. Especially if people actually stick around. Instead they don't even try because of defeatist reasoning like this, and an unwillingness to personally sacrifice at all ("I can't take time off work for this", "I can't travel across the state/country to protest", "I don't want to risk being arrested/shot for pushing for change", "I can't do anything other than vote in midterms/2028").
You can see it in this very thread - so many Americans saying nothing will change until they lose a war or get a progressive in office, essentially admitting that they'll yet again wait for someone else to fix their problems for them. Until that lazy, apathetic mentality dies, and the American people come together to support each other during a longer protest (like J6, or the Canada convoys, even if I disagree with the messages of both of those, it's impossible to argue they weren't effective), of course the country will continue to go down the drain.
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u/phuncky 14h ago
Yanks are directly responsible for what is and will be happening. In many European countries such behaviour from a leader would lead to riots. The USA population says that it finds it embarrassing. But I don't believe that. If they were truly embarrassed by their leader, they would protest en masse every single day, until they make his life miserable. They are (almost) all complacent in what Trump is doing.
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u/aferretwithahugecock 13h ago
You know who would be protesting and wreaking havoc? Fuckin maga. If it was a Dem president doing all the things that trump has been doing, there'd already be heads on spikes outside the Capitol and White House.
Like, shit, those goofs stormed the government building because they believed american democracy was under attack. The american "left" can actually see their democracy under attack, and the most they do is spend a sunny saturday afternoon waving cardboard signs with clever slogans and comment "disgusted!" under articles on the internet.
Edit for reddit's sake - I'm just stating an observation, not condoning or encouraging violence and such.
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u/postusa2 13h ago
Americans should see their own future unfolding here and bring this immoral and dangerous nonsense to a halt. What is being peddled here is autocracy. One of the favourite tricks as they consolidate power (see also Ukraine) is to model the violence, brutality, and capacity for amoral action abroad before turning them home.
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u/Ligabolzacky 9h ago
Americans are just completely apathetic. They don't seem inclined to act to protect their own freedom, let alone some country they can't find on a map
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u/doggonedad 14h ago
Who’s going to stop him? Seriously. The guys gotten away with everything his whole life and I hate to say it but who’s going to hold him accountable.
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u/human-in-a-can 11h ago
The citizens of any country he tries to annex. Most populations aren’t as complacent as Americans.
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u/Setanta68 10h ago
Who in their right mind would trust the US in this day and age?
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u/Braklinath 13h ago
As a Canadian, feels like we're gonna start getting 51st State rhetoric ramping up again soon. No doubt if it doesn't happen by the state of the union address, that will be what it would be about. Everything is going to shit and fascist dogs will bark and wail in trying to find the next authoritarian trend that'll stick.
All Democrats had to do was genuinely give a shit and they'd win. Instead they just pay lip service when it's convenient for them and put up the most bog standard corporate bought establishment bereaucrat as a candidate and refuse to learn anything when they lose.
Republicans are evil but should be treated like a force of a nature. Like Earthquakes. Inevitable and capable of causing excessive damage, but when properly prepared against said damage can be heavily mitigated. All it takes is the political will to prepare for them. And yet, all we get is "when they go low we high" virtue signalling instead of a "when they go low we stomp them in their fucking faces for having the audacity to play dirty" mentality.
The fact that the US right wing is experiencing as much infighting as it is right now despite basically no formal opposition from the Democratic Establishment just shows how easy it would be for Democratics to actually win if they were actually genuine people. Look at Mamdani for a textbook example. Actually giving people something to vote for, instead of just providing the minimal reason to vote as nothing more than just "we ain't that guy".
And yet this is a thing thats been going on for decades if not a century or two. The civil war was fought by traitors, and they all should have received a traitors punishment. Instead here we are now, all suffering the lack of political will to hold anyone to account for decades of evil.
Hitler / nazism is evil. Slavery is evil. Genocide is evil. Anyone defending or even just holding water for them, is also consequently evil. Traitors to humanity the lot of them.
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u/theholyraptor 11h ago
I saw a well written meme that was succinct and I need to find it. But high level and making it longer, the democrats have most of the same donors/controllers as the GOP. So rather than actually platform change that people want they're spending their warchests on analysts to find ways to... spin things and pretend while doing nothing.
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u/Admits-Dagger 10h ago
Both sides the same is partially how we got here. I think dems are pussies but this is fucking stupid.
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u/motherseffinjones 14h ago
It’s insane how quickly the world is going to shit. We are definitely gonna see a major war soon aren’t we?
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u/supermuncher60 12h ago
I mean there are multiple large scale conflicts ongoing right now.
The deadliest war in decades has been raging in Sudan for the past few years with basically zero news coverage. Virtually an entire city was ethnicity cleansed a few weeks ago and there was basically zero news coverage on it.
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u/No-Impress-2096 10h ago
That's the vibe here in Denmark at least. The worst part is that all the IT infrastructure runs on US software, so the economy would turn to shit if we had to engage in hybrid warfare with them too.
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u/frugaleringenieur 9h ago
Proposing alternatives is heavily pushed back in our org at least. Microsoft sales is great or our bosses are threatened or accepting money personally. I mean, with those monthly costs behind, the alternatives would also be a magnitude more economical.
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u/The-Board-Chairman 11h ago
We are definitely gonna see a major war soon aren’t we?
Oh, most certainly. I'd wager '27 or '28, though it could be fall '26 already, depending on how things develop. The latter seems unlikely though.
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u/uniklyqualifd 14h ago
Nobody should show up for the FIFA World Cup, or the Olympics
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u/_Sovaz99_ 12h ago
And if theyre smart, they wont.
Eff the TSA rifling through your phone and potentially taking your passport and sending you to Uganda. Sports can be watched on the teevee as God intended.
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u/chase_frisco 8h ago
No. Don't watch. 100% boycott. No Stream, No TV, nothing that gives a cent of ad revenue.
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u/GeneviliousPaladinus 10h ago
Why do Americans have guns at home anyway? If the government tries to pull such a trick, isn't it time for a revolution, as per John Locke's design?
I think dragging one's country in a war nobody wants, qualifies. Make sure to seize some billionaire assets while at it.
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u/chase_frisco 8h ago
Why do Americans have guns at home anyway?
Masturbatory aid and shooting minorities. I feel that sums up american gun culture pretty well.
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u/illegalcitizen_CA 8h ago
Guns were for protecting whites against native Americans. Republicans love to tout “protection against govt” but it’s all drones these days. I just think guns make them feel tough and came up with a bs excuse.
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u/Zman---- 13h ago
The USA already has a base in Greenland, a normal person would make an agreement to lease more space. So sick of the orange idiot trying to bully everyone.
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u/PresumedSapient 12h ago edited 4h ago
a normal person would make an agreement to lease more space
The current agreement already allows for that. This is all about ego and undermining any sort of world order that respects sovereignty.
edit: a word
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u/-S-P-E-C-T-R-E- 11h ago
They had several bases and up to 10k personnel stationed there during the Cold War. This has nothing to do with National Security. It’s all about ego and corruption.
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u/human-in-a-can 11h ago
Greenland needs to evict and cancel any leased land agreements. No other modern country would fault them for it.
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u/Grievuuz 12h ago
You mean like the one from 1951 that is still in effect today? That agreement?
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u/IsThisJustNuts 13h ago
Trump believes in the Putin school of world affairs. And the world has yet to prove otherwise.
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u/SHOOHS 14h ago edited 14h ago
Americans should be considered enemies to Greenland and treated as such while this bullshit administration is still in power. Until the support for the idea is abolished, revoke visas and ask all Americans to leave. Lord knows they’re doing it in their own country, with the exception of the asking part.
Edit: Thank you to the moderator that removed the foolish war mongering reply to my comment. Explains the reactions to the comments following it.
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u/creepy_doll 14h ago
Remember that some recent eu report put the us as a serious risk recently.
It’s actually crazy to me that one guy can get his crazy supporters to support Russia
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u/366df 11h ago edited 11h ago
you don't really need an eu report to be able to tell that. their secretary of defense was bragging about military operations in a groupchat with a journalist. and the sitting president can't shut up either, there's a non-zero chance he'll end up posting nuclear launch codes to twitter or some stupid shit. god knows what is happening behind closed doors, but anyone can hazard a guess.
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u/trowzerss 14h ago
Right? There's a point where you have to stop putting up with that nonsense and being polite. He needs to be treated like the wannabe dictator he is - you need to stomp on that bullshit fast.
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u/OrdinaryNo3622 14h ago
Waves to Greenland in Canadian. We got you fam
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u/Burial 10h ago
Also Canadian, also have solidarity with Greenland, but this comment is asinine.
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u/DocklandsDodgers86 12h ago
"What do you mean I cannot annex Poland in the morning?"
\sad Hitler noises**
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u/joeengland 13h ago
Lord, I hate that we did this to ourselves and to the world.
All we had to do was not elect the damn rapist again.
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u/PresumedSapient 12h ago
All we had to do was not elect the damn rapist again.
You do realize Trump is a symptom and the result of many unsolved issues? Not the singular cause.
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u/TJ_learns_stuff 6h ago
Hey world, this “acquire Greenland” isn’t a Trump thing … this is a right-wing, republican, neo-conservative driven idea. So when he goes, this idea does not. Trump is just saying it out loud to distract the masses from his most recent controversy and shift attention from his mounting list of domestic and international failures.
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u/rwx- 14h ago
American citizens just chillin as their shit melts. Incredible.
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u/Artimedias 8h ago
40% of Americans can't miss a single paycheck or else they miss rent / groceries. There aren't worker protections, so missing a few days in a row to go protest will get them fired. The media is probably the most captured by capital in any western nation and downplays anything that happens.
It's a pretty perfect setup for a population who won't do anything.
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u/Significant-Ship5591 12h ago
US citizens who 1) went to vote and 2) didn’t vote for pedo Trump believe they have done their duty. But it won’t save your country by just ridiculong Trump and his administration by watching the shows of Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and John Stewart. It will take much more than that.
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u/ptwonline 3h ago
Imagine identifying a resource/place you find critical to your needs, already have great access to it because they are friends and allies, and then driving them away because you decide that you must have full control instead of them happy to be willing partners.
The English language lacks the words to adequately describe the arrogance and stupidity of Donald Trump. Seriously--he is probably in the 99.9999th percentile of people least fit to be President. Most complete idiots realize that they lack the knowledge and skills and will rely on others, or else lack the utter cruelty or have at least a shred of decency that allows them to be guided away from their worst impulses, but because of Trump's raging narcissism and lifetime of getting away with all the shit he has done he doesn't even have that saving grace.
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u/IRespectYouMyFriend 10h ago
Europe and the US inching ever closer to war.
I can't believe Americans let this happen.
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u/chrisofaust 11h ago
I’m a 63 year old Australian. If the U.S. decides to annex Greenland, I’ll get myself to Greenland by any means necessary, plane, canoe or swim. I’ll happily throw sticks, stones or whatever else I can lay my hands upon to help repel the invaders.
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u/04287f5 14h ago
World can be in peace once Trump, Putin, Xi and Kim are not on earth anymore
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u/pineappleoptics 14h ago
I'd love to believe that, but since the beginning of history we've been in a state of perpetual war
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u/ty_xy 14h ago
I was gonna say after world war 2 we did pretty ok then I remembered about the Korean war, Vietnam war, Falklands war, Afghanistan war, Iraq 1 and 2, Afghanistan again, Georgian war etc etc
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u/McRibs2024 14h ago
There’s a list of very evil men and woman behind Trump that also need to go as well.
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u/madler437 14h ago
Those three men are not the source of all evil. If they disappear, others will just take their place.
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u/BoringEntropist 14h ago
No ruler rules alone. Behind those dictators there are echelons of cadres who are perfectly willing to replace them. Such systems end in two ways: Either by slow, evolutionary reforms or by the complete replacement of the elite class as a result of a revolution or a military defeat.
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u/ChuzCuenca 14h ago
Yeah about that, just going by vibes and history I'll spoiled you the plot:
this won't get any better before getting really bad.
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u/Anyawnomous 13h ago
“We don’t do that anymore Grampa! Now clean your pants and go to bed” - Society
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u/aunty-kelly 10h ago
Some scholars say the US illegally annexed Hawaii. Last star on the flag…
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u/korndaweizen 10h ago
Hm.... How convenient that that topic comes up again.... I think there was something wrong with the epstein files release....? Aaaaaaah whateeeeeever.
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u/fitzgoldy 7h ago
Americans will never be trusted again and deservedly so. There was a way back after Trump 1 but not now after Americans showed they'd do it again.
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u/potatisblask 6h ago
Hey Americans! Your president is challenging a war with the EU. I don't think anybody can estimate the consequences of escalating this threat let alone a future military aggression. Seriously, nobody has anything to gain from this, except Trump staying out of prison in his miserable last years of life. That's all this is about.
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u/prettyrick 10h ago
It’s like a speedrun in how to ruin a countries status, and how to lose allies. Even though countries have their differences we all unite in despising the US
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u/FlinterSell 14h ago
There's a reason he's saying annex and be part of the US. The rational and logical thing would be for the US to demand more NATO assets and collaboration up there. It's not about defence, it's about resources and greed.
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u/ThePowerfulPaet 14h ago
Can't fucking believe we're doing this again.