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President Donald Trump did not rule out military force to acquire Greenland in an interview as the Danish territory continued to rebuff his advances.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/29/trump-greenland-military-force-denmark/82722287007/


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[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 110 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 61 points 3 days ago

Where is his suit? Does he not respect the office? /s

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

USA does not intend to do a good damn thing for people in Greenland.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Oh they'll do a lot for Greenland

They'll fuck up the country for them, they'll terrorize them, they'll...

[–] msage@programming.dev -5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What 'both countries' are we talking about?

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No idea why you're down voted, Greenland is not a country but a (semi-) autonomous territory of Denmark.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 4 points 2 days ago

Making a polite correction for a misconception is great.

Being obtuse about a point that doesn't matter, while not even correcting the point one is being obtuse about, should be downvoted.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Denmark and Greenland. Both mentioned in the meme.

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shit, killing the Department of Education is causing issues quicker than I expected.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

USA is killing it, since I can remember…

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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