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After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.
With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.
The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.
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I expect the Danish government to fold and give Trump everything he asked for without much of a conflict.
Back in 2020 they laughed at him for making such a ridiculous demand, as he lacked the necessary leverage to go through with it. But thanks to dear old Biden being such a good friend to the EU over the past 4 years, Trump now has all he needs to extort Greenland out of them.
The Russian bogeyman has Europeans so spooked, they'll do anything to keep the US in their good graces, even if it means giving up territory. It will be extremely humiliating, but they have no choice.
The issue is that Denmark cannot give Greenland away. It is not theirs to give, and not in a moral sense. It's up to Greenland what it wants to do. It's like when Merkel tried to explain to him that the US couldn't just do a deal with Germany, it had to be all of the EU.
Otherwise I agree yeah. I hate how the european libs joyfully follow the pied piper into a ditch.
As far as Denmark, the EU, the US, and material reality are concerned, Greenland is absolutely Denmark’s (to give if they’re really forced to).
What the constitution has to say about will affect the formalities but at the end of the day this is a political question rather than a legal one.
If the USA wants to take Greenland, Denmark and Europe won’t actually be able to stop them which means a political settlement that gives it away.
I agree that will probably be the end result, i just disagree with the framing that makes it out to be as simple a process as this. Especially when it seems Trump doesn't understand it either.
Edit: pushing for this would completely redefine the US-EU relationship in the public eye as well as make it clear to the average citizen (and hopefully a few politicians) that NATO is just what the warzaw pact was accused of being. And then yes the constitution of a teeny tiny European country would have to be rewritten as well as the constitution of Greenland in order for Denmark to give away Greenland. Which would take time.
There's many loopholes I'm sure, but brute forcing it like you're alluding to would require these things, which could easily become ground zero for a lot of future diplomatic problems for the US.
Maybe Greenland votes to join the us, that's a much easier process than brute force. Maybe it becomes unofficial us territory, that's also possible. But the way Trump seems to go about it (and the way I see most users here talk about) would, as it appears to me, be taking the path of most resistance.
Oh yeah absolutely, he's not being subtle about it at all.
However, this isn't the first time the USA has sought to acquire Greenland: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_the_United_States_to_purchase_Greenland
I think he's putting the pressure on now because there has never been a more opportune time for the USA to pursue this goal. Europe is scared shitless of Russia, with it looking like it will win the war in Ukraine, and if Trump manages to convince Denmark and Greenland that they'll be given additional security guarantees along with a nice sum of money, he might be able to pull off a deal. And we know that Trump loves his deals.
As for the moral aspect -- we are talking about a country that is currently funding a genocide that has killed more people than the entire population of Greenland -- under the "good guys" no less. You know it doesn't really matter.
The public eye is primarily liberals, and they are easily swayed by propaganda. The moment Trump is out of office again, they will go right back to cheerleading for the US. They already rehabilitated Bush and Cheney, they will rationalize this too. "But we needed to protect the world from Russia..."
And after all, there is a precedent they can call back to: In 1917 the US bought parts of the Virgin Islands from Denmark: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands
Good response, but you misunderstood me about morals. I mentioned them to underline that the difficulty is not about morals, in other words: they don't matter.
The sale of the virgin islands doesn't really function as a precedent since they weren't autonomous like Greenland is. Danish law is also Napoleonic, not common, so presence isn't as big of a deal.
I meant precedent more in the sense of "what the media can sell to people", not in terms of what's legal.
You're right though, the autonomous nature of Greenland does make this much more difficult for the USA to pull off without military action.
At the same time, the idea of it becoming independent and distancing itself from the USA is probably one of the main reasons they want to acquire it in the first place.
Oh yeah that makes much more sense!