Donald Trump said Friday his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not,” further escalating his rhetoric as he pushes to acquire the Danish territory for the U.S.

The comments came during a meeting with oil executives to discuss the prospect of doing business in Venezuela. Less than a week earlier, the U.S. military invaded the oil-rich South American nation and captured its leader, Nicolás Maduro.

Denmark and its European allies in NATO – the military alliance co-founded by the U.S. – have pushed back, reiterating that Greenland is not for sale. But the Trump administration nevertheless says it is currently weighing a range of options on Greenland, including utilizing the U.S. military or cutting a deal to purchase it from Denmark.

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    Do you fucking idiots really think the Epstein files would change anything? On top of that the U.S. just invaded a foreign nation, kidnapped its head of state, and is trying install a puppet government all because of oil and ego, and are now openly talking about doing the same to another nation. They can be doing more than one bad thing without it being a distraction, you can also be focused on more than one thing, especially when one of those things is an international act of terrorism that is actively hurting an entire country outside of the states.

    Stop making everything about just one thing and give issues the attention they deserve for what they are, squawking “epstein files!” at everything makes the epstein files a distraction from everything else, you fucking tools.

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        Are yall slow or what, why do you still need those files, can’t you put two and two together, you gonna do nothing untill you got every last single file?

        No. It’s that he thinks this will get the news cycle off the files, which will let him solidify power. It’s also that he’ll sacrifice as many people as he wants to ensure those files don’t get out. He’s right too. Old news is dead news. It’s that our news, and our politicians by extension, are easily manipulated.

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          Ok then what will happen when all the files appear then what? its not like y’all will protest or do anything yall cant even unionize for normal working conditions. If you gonna protest after all the files appear, then you can protest NOW already.

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            Ok then what will happen when all the files appear then what?

            Congress will then have to attach their names to diddling kids. Even if they did, their donors won’t tolerate it. If they did, then the guillotines come out.

            If you gonna protest after all the files appear, then you can protest NOW already.

            We already are. People are angry but, if politicians as a whole throw their names behind fucking children, that’d be throwing gas on the fire. That is when the protesters start getting violent. The cops are using lethal force now, but the political class saying that its okay for them to start sticking their penises into 11 year olds is when the prorestors start shooting back. It’d also be alienating to cops, national guardsmwn, and the military too. Everyone has kids in their family, and that’d be asking them to sign off on their family being raped too.

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              He became president 🥲 so you think “When everything becomes public, the political class is morally exposed.” Most of this was already public before his first term. If it didn’t lead to consequences then, it won’t magically do so now. I wouldn’t count on it that the release of all the epstein files will change anything or lead to consequences. And I also hear that most americans dont even follow the news or dont care whats going on with politics or even support whats going on. You can protest but organizing mass strike works better tbh. put the american economy to a standstill if you really wanna change something.

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                Most of this was already public before his first term.

                True, and a lot of people put on blinders of convenience. But that convenience falls away in front of an Epstein pic of DJT fucking a 10-year-old.

                Put the american economy to a standstill.

                It would be nice if the American people could afford to do that, and maybe we could have at some point before the 80s. But, we had Regan who sold the “idea” of trickle-down ecconomics. Now, people are too broke to quit/protest, and doing so would mean they could no longer get any medical care (not that they could much before, but any healthcare is better than no healthcare) and they’d lose access to food and housing. Simply, Americans haven’t been desperate enough on this to die yet. But, it’s getting there. Remember, the French didn’t bust out the guillotine right away. It wasn’t until food shortages got bad and the workers had literally no money that they stormed the Bastille.

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        That’s around 150 million idiots, that want a warmongering criminal pedophile to run the country. Insane.

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        Not really a defense for those 40% but many of them don’t know what is going on. There are strong efforts to keep them distracted, lied to and stupid.

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      Even if Trump is removed from power this problem isn’t going to go away. To start solving the problem permenently we need to get rid of capitalism. Fascism is capitalism in crisis and if capitalism is maintained fascism is inevitable.

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        join your work unions and ORGANIZE PROTEST STRIKE IN ALL COMPANIES !!! 

        FIGHT THIS TERROR IN UNANITY !!!

        DEMANDS THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE ARRESTED PEOPLE !!!
        DEMAND
THE DISSOLUTION OF THIS GOV !!!

        MAKE YOUR DEMANDS CLEAR EVERYWHERE: FORCE ICE OUT, PUT TRUMP IN JAIL, TAX THE RICH, BREAK THE STRANGLEHOLD OF BILLIONAIRE (TECH) POWER OVER OUR GOV, FAIR WAGES AND NATIONAL HEALTHCARE!!!

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    Doing Putin’s bidding.

    By even attempting or formulating an attack on Greenland he places the rest of NATO against the US. If he can separate the two, then NATO no longer exists.

    This is trump being a Putin toady.

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      And if NATO does nothing it might as well not exist anymore.

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    The rest of NATO need to put troops in Greenland, today, with clear orders to fire on any invading force, even if its the US.

    If there’s one clear and obvious pattern with Trump’s use of military power, it’s that he likes quick, easy, low cost military operations. One day of airstrikes, one special forces raid, declare victory, go home. Either he or the people around him understand that America has no stomach for a war right now. The American right have been beating the anti-war drums hard for the last decade. But surgical military operations win public because they’re already over before anyone can react. Look, see, no Iraq style quagmire. Trump gets it done, no problems. Not like those other idiots.

    All of which adds up to the conclusion that Trump will not want to spark a war with the entirety of NATO. But he’s extremely confident that if he steals Greenland fast enough, NATO won’t want a war to take it back.

    This is why the defence of Greenland has to be pre-emptive. A clear commitment to a fight, before the US can put boots on the ground. Do that, and Trump will back down. The right wing politics of today are not the right wing politics of 2001. He doesn’t want a war, he wants an easy victory. We cannot offer him one.

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    health care and rent skyrockets, ICE destroying our neighborhoods. But i guess taking Greenland or abducting Venezuela pres is more important. “What the actual fuck”, i’ve been saying this literally every single day since his 2nd presidency. Every day is like another god damn South Park episode.

    also friendly reminder we are still early into January 2026

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    While we fight USA in greenland, if we not just give it to them, putin will attack our eastern borders I bet. Thanks so much trump for idk whats going on anymore tbh. Nazi corruption or something, but also semi good cause Maduro was also evil? idk anymore man

    Not like american citizens follow the news so yeah not like americans are able to stop this evil from the inside out, they aren’t able to mass strike or whatever, most americans got no idea whats going on, america will get what they want whenever they want cause they the most powerful. But the business relationships will be over hopefully after Greenland., good luck with your billionaire tech companies without customers from the EU.

    Thanks trump for weaking your friends, for making putin more powerful… Thank you trump for bringing neo kolonialism back, Thank you trump for a global war, Thank you trump for hating and oppressing the weak, not protecting the weak.
    THANK YOU TRUMP FOR WORLD WAR III

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      January 2025 was the best -most recent- option.
      Last week was next.
      Yesterday was next.
      Today is next.

      If tRUMP isn’t a russian stooge then that obese orange paedo is doing its best to look like it.

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    Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, one of the founding members of NATO along with the US.

    Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members, and triggers an obligation for each member to come to its assistance.

    Attacking, invading, operating in, or otherwise taking military action against Greenland will at best destabilize and delegitimize NATO, and at worst prompt a full military response from NATO member states against the United States Military, the largest and most powerful armed force in history several times over, with a budget an order of magnitude larger than the rest of the world combined.

    I cannot overstate how horrifically, hilariously bad this would be:

    • It would begin an escalating conflict that would give China the perfect distraction to invade Taiwan, and remove the support that Ukraine desperately requires to continue defending against Russia.

    • To avoid war, Denmark and NATO would be forced to concede and appease Trump as Chamberlain did with Hitler, further emboldening Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping to continue their totalitarian regimes and campaigns which literally amount to no less than cartoonishly evil total world domination.

    • In full scale conflict, NATO states would be faced with a losing battle in which their only recourse would quickly become the use of nuclear weapons.

    This absolutely cannot happen. Our only window to stop the Trump regime’s utterly Fascist-with-a-capital-F designs by conventional political means is rapidly closing. Once the American military is in Denmark without their consent, my advice is to start looking at options for your own survival of WWIII.

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      Also, Greenland/Denmark is member of EU who have a similar clause to article 5.

      Even if NATO could possibly immediately dissolve to avoid responding to Article 5, I’m guessing the EU is more robust.

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      I was taking you slightly seriously until you called China totalitarian which is so probably false as to draw into question every other point of analysis you have here.