The real reason for Greenland

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BearFan33
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https://www.foxnews.com/world/denmark-increase-military-spending-north-atlantic-2-billion-amid-row-trump-over-greenland

This may have been Trump's goal all along to get Denmark to actually get serious about defending it. Not just sit there, ignore it and wait for the US if Russia or someone else starts to encroach.
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BearFan33 said:

https://www.foxnews.com/world/denmark-increase-military-spending-north-atlantic-2-billion-amid-row-trump-over-greenland

This may have been Trump's goal all along to get Denmark to actually get serious about defending it. Not just sit there, ignore it and wait for the US if Russia or someone else starts to encroach.
and still people will say Trump is crazy
historian
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Most if the people who say that don't know what a woman is & think it's ok & desirable to kill babies.
“Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!”
Psalm 119:36
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Guy Noir
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https://time.com/7312624/greenland-covert-operation-trump-denmark/

Denmark Summons U.S. Envoy Over Report of Trump-Linked Covert Influence Operation in Greenland

Denmark's foreign minister has summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen after the country's national broadcaster reported that three people linked to President Donald Trump had been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.
Citing government and security sources, the broadcaster, DR, said three Americans close to the president had been compiling names of Greenlandic citizens who supported Trump's plans to take over the island, and who might be willing to join a secessionist movement.
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The report said the sources believed the goal of the operation was to "penetrate Greenlandic society in order to weaken relations with Denmark from within and make the Greenlanders submit to the United States."
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen confirmed in a statement to TIME that he had summoned Mark Stroh, the U.S. charge d'affaires in Copenhagen, adding that "any attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the Kingdom [of Denmark] will of course be unacceptable."
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"We are aware that foreign actors continue to show an interest in Greenland and its position in the Kingdom of Denmark. It is therefore not surprising if we experience outside attempts to influence the future of the Kingdom in the time ahead," he said.
The broadcaster did not publish the names of the three Americans who were alleged to have been carrying out the operation, but described one of them as having been "seen in public with the US president many times" and "recently been appointed to a role that could give him influence over US security policy."
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The other two have "regularly traveled back and forth between Greenland and the United States in recent years," and have previously worked under Trump.
The report added that all three men's activities were closely monitored by the Danish government.
The U.S. currently has no ambassador in Denmark. A charge d'affaires is a diplomat who serves as chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump spent his first few months in office pushing to make Greenland, which is a semiautonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, a part of the United States. The president claimed the island was essential to U.S. national security, and did not rule out using military force to acquire it.
"We need Greenland for national security and even international security," Trump said earlier this month during a joint session of Congress, pointing to the influence of other global powers in the Arctic, specifically Russia and China. "And I think we're going to get it one way or the other."
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Greenlandthe world's largest island that is not a continentis sparsely populated by just over 56,000 people, but heavy in natural resources, including rare earth minerals, uranium, and iron. In fact, Greenland has 25 of the 34 minerals categorized as "critical raw materials" by the European Commission.
These minerals include lithium and titanium, which are critical for manufacturing technology that Trump is attempting to boost in the United States including phones and computer chips.
Trump sent diplomats from his Administration to Greenland earlier this year as part of his push to acquire Greenland, including his son in January, and in March, Lady Usha Vance, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to Greenland.
His previous attempts to send diplomats there, though, have not gone over well with Greenland leaders nor Denmark leaders.
TinFoilHatPreacherBear
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Trump believes it's vital. Denmark gotta step up its defense game and partnership with the US if it wants to keep it.
 
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