U.S. relinquished any claim to Greenland in 1916

[Tanuki]

Link to tweet

[spanone]

1. K&R

[malaise]

2. Greed and ignorance kill

That is all

[dalton99a]

3. +1. Paperwork means nothing to the rapist

[leftstreet]

4. Imperial powers, dividing up stuff

stuff they didn't ever "own"

[malaise]

5. People and stuff

Rec

[BidenRocks]

12. Exactly what chump and the oil companies were doing

just the other day about Venezuela.
They were carving it up!

This isn't yours to cut up!

[popsdenver]

24. Same for our phony invasion of IRAQ

The entire U.S. Military, and taxpayer money spent, so that Cheney/Rumsfeld could divide IRAQ up among six U.S. Oil Companies.
The expenses for the IRAQ war are still continuing to mount...Injured, maimed soldiers, replacement of arms used, etc.
The current estimate for the U.S., so far, (for the total U.S. cost of the IRAQ war), just passed TWO TRILLION DOLLARS and still counting....
Rumsfeld told us the IRAQ invasion, was going to be over in THREE DAYS, the citizens of IRAQ would be lining the streets throwing flowers at our troops leaving, and the total cost to the U.S. Taxpayers would be THREE BILLION dollars, which would be repaid by IRAQ owned oil companies, from the sales of the countries oil in the first year.......

Greenland can't put up much resistance, I think their entire population is something like 50,000 people.
Putin desperately needs/wants not only Greenland, but Iceland, Northern Canada, and even Alaska if he can get it back.....
And Trump/Republicans will try and get it so that Putin won't disgrace them all with Kompromat collected over decades, along with all the Ton of Epstein material Putin possesses......

If Trump and Republicans go into Greenland, The other NATO countries will have to come from Europe to help defend Greenland from the U.S. (and Russia), and Trump will leave NATO........Greenland will be conquered without the U.S. to defend them, and the European NATO countries won't be able to help Greenland and also defend themselves form Putin's invasions, just like Hitler in WWII.

[mitch96]

28. "Cheney/Rumsfeld could divide IRAQ up among six U.S. Oil Companies." Yup, you nailed it. Follow the money.nt

[popsdenver]

29. Yup

Haliburton and other oil companies ...Zillions in Profits, U.S. Taxpayers paying for it..... Two Trillion and still counting.......

All the while, in the last 45+years:

"They" were walking down the Jungle Path, swatting at mosquitoes, and completely oblivious to the herd of charging elephants"
Pun intended..............

The perfect title for a book about the last 45+ years would be: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT

[twodogsbarking]

6. Biden's fault.

[JoseBalow]

7. Thanks, Obama.

[surfered]

8. Trump doesn't honor agreements, even the ones he makes.

During his second term, he imposed tariffs on those countries, effectively reneging the previous agreement he made, calling it “ a bad deal.”

[IronLionZion]

9. Erasing history is important for MAGA

they learn history only from confederate statues, not from any books, schools, or museums.

[Hugin]

10. I guess it's been caught in the right wing's craw since grampy Trump did the draft dodge out of...

The Kaiser’s empire.

I knew about Panama and Cuba. But, I have to admit this Greenland stuff caught me flat footed.

[Arazi]

11. These don't mean anything anymore. We were supposed to defend Ukraine

By signing the Budapest Agreement in 1994, we guaranteed Ukraine’s sovereignty and vowed to protect them if they gave up their nukes.

Now we’ve basically thrown them to the wolves and given them half-assed support insufficient to finish the Russians, ensuring Putin has had enough time to re-tool.

Greenland agreement from 1916?!!

Sigh…

[BidenRocks]

13. Might not want to ask the Kurds!

[progressoid]

18. Exactly. Trump can do what ever the fuck he wants apparently.

[OnlinePoker]

14. Trump keeps claiming Russia and China are going to take over Greenland.

Russia can barely advance in Ukraine and China won't even go after Taiwan. It's laughable that either country would try go after Greenland.

[Wounded Bear]

15. trump has never honored agreements he, himself, made. Why would he honor agreements others made? nt

[Callie1979]

16. All I see is "Denmark's rights to Greenland were confirmed". But where? How?

Cane we read the agreement?

[TomWilm]

23. Denmark extending their interests to the whole of Greenland ...

1917 DECLARATION BETWEEN DENMARK AND THE US ABOUT GREENLAND

In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

[Callie1979]

27. Thanks very much!

[TomWilm]

17. As confirmed by the US in 2004 with a new defense agreement ...

2004 Agreement Between The Government Of The United States Of America And The Government Of The Kingdom Of Denmark, Including The Home Rule Government Of Greenland.

... Thule Air Base is the only defense area in Greenland. ...

Signatories: Colin Powell (US), Per Stig Møller (Denmark), and Josef Motzfeldt (Greenland).

[Bayard]

19. Thanks for this

[FakeNoose]

20. Screenshot for the Twitterless

Link to original website (Danish Institute for International Studies):
https://www.diis.dk/en/research/why-is-greenland-part-of-the-kingdom-of-denmark-a-short-history

[Bayard]

21. K&R

trump--Sit down, and shut up!

I'd like to see Rachel Maddow do her thing about this, and the 2004 agreement. Publicize widely.

[mitch96]

22. I just hope tfg does not just start sending troops to the airbase in G'land.. More and more troops and then

some false flag operation to justify taking over Greenland..
It's in the dictators play book...
Like ruzzia retaliating for the attack on putins home that never happened...uff
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[Wednesdays]

25. Or...

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

The Gleiwitz incident ... was a false flag attack on the radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz (then Germany and now Gliwice, Poland) staged by Nazi Germany on the night of 31 August 1939. Along with some two dozen similar incidents, the attack was manufactured by Germany as a casus belli to justify the invasion of Poland. Prior to the invasion, Adolf Hitler gave a radio address condemning the acts and announcing German plans to attack Poland, which began the next morning. Despite the German government using the attack as a justification to go to war with Poland, the Gleiwitz assailants were not Polish but were German SS officers wearing Polish uniforms.

I smell a perfect job brewing for the Proud Boys and ex-J6'ers!

[mitch96]

31. During the run up to the Vietnam war there was the false flag Tolkin Gulf incident... Our reason to escalate..uff

Later investigation revealed that the 4 August attack did not happen..
m

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

[sop]

26. The full treaty: "Convention between the United States and Denmark for cession of the Danish West Indies."

See "Declaration" on page 6 regarding Greenland.

https://loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1916DanishWestIndies.pdf

[orangecrush]

30. K&R

[UTUSN]

32. Problem is, there's news out there, that the few Greenlanders have been drifting

away from Denmark towards wanting independence, with Denmark sort of over a barrel whether to die on the hill of defending against KRASNOV since the bond is weak.