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Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland

34 points| jamesblonde | 1 month ago |nytimes.com

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general1465|1 month ago

I love it. It is such a stupid move that I can only laugh. USA will lose EU, very close ally with a huge economy. Where is the big part of military supply chain coming from? Well it is EU - i.e. big chunk of F35 is made in Europe. Which would be really smart thing to lose, when US Navy already has issues to build ships in general.

And then war with China comes around. Take Greenland and it is going to be more like USA against the world, than USA vs China.

treetalker|1 month ago

See US's Treaty of the Danish West Indies:

> During 1916, the two sides agreed to a sale price of $25,000,000, and the United States accepted a Danish demand for a declaration stating that they would "not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indi...

I'm reminded of the Budapest Memorandum (Russia's promise not to invade the Ukraine if the Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum.

hermanzegerman|1 month ago

Says the Looser who has to permanently hide inside a military base, because he fears the normal people outside

ZeroGravitas|1 month ago

Given the talk that he might be running Venezuela soon, I wonder if that was inspired either by Maduro doing the same in Venezuela, or worries about him being Maduro'd in retaliation?

Havoc|1 month ago

Current administration has redefined words like „legal“ and „right“ to mean absolutely nothing

rurban|1 month ago

Then China will immediately invade Taiwan. They have more right to do so than the US.

Zigurd|1 month ago

They really are playing tic-tac-toe at a chess tournament. Do they think ASML will be sending technicians to fix their EUV machines in the US?

DrNosferatu|1 month ago

The EU must leave NATO and start its own Military Alliance - without the US.

This time the alliance mandate, instead of fighting Communism, should be enforcing ICC rulings.

hermanzegerman|1 month ago

The EU already has stricter clauses for mutual military aid than NATO does