US - Greenland Crisis Thread

[The Minsky Moment]

The Democrats understand it intellectually, but they still keep bringing a spaghetti noodle to a gun fight.

[crazy canuck]

MAGA/Fox will characterize this whole episode as Trump flexing American power, and getting a deal on Greenland.  Forget about the fact there is and will never be a deal on Greenland.  On to the next bit of chaos to distract everyone from the Epstein files.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

lets hope our politicians stay awake and keep growing those brass balls so that next time arrives we can slap him harder

[OttoVonBismarck]

MAGA/Fox will characterize this whole episode as Trump flexing American power, and getting a deal on Greenland.  Forget about the fact there is and will never be a deal on Greenland.  On to the next bit of chaos to distract everyone from the Epstein files.

Right, any deal would be something we've basically already had. We have treaty rights to open something like 16 additional military bases, and Denmark has said all along they are open to expanding it--Greenland is vast and mostly uninhabited so it isn't like they care tremendously if the U.S. builds out more facilities.

And while there could be more discussions needed, I'm pretty sure both Greenland and Denmark have always been open to outside investment in resource industries on the island.

AFAIK the locals are not against any resource extraction, they have been against certain specific projects. But again, it's a big island, a lot of things could be done with little disturbance to the locals. I also think efforts had been made in the past to find investment for resource extraction in Greenland--to no avail. (Likely whatever "deal" happens, will also result in no meaningful investment as private companies won't want to invest in a project that's a guaranteed loss.)

[The Brain]

Denmark didn't care before if the American presence increases. Now any American presence has to be considered hostile.

[Jacob]

Any thoughts on the content of the framework? Status quo ante, with some flowery language for Trump and a bit of graft for his cronies and investment vehicles?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fVmSIOM28g

this is the video of PM De Wever repeating the vassal/slave destiny is Europe remains naive. Being used to meek belgian politicians... this'll be a big swallow for a lot of people here (belgium that is).
Now we'll have to see if the actions follow the words...