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Denmark Sent Trump Private Messages on Greenland

Denmark Sent Trump Private Messages on Greenland

January 11, 2025 at 3:23 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/01/11/denmark-sent-trump-private-messages-on-greenland/

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“Denmark sent private messages in recent days to President-elect Trump’s team expressing willingness to discuss boosting security in Greenland or increasing the U.S. military presence on the island,” Axios reports.

“In the messages passed to the Trump team, the Danish government made clear Greenland was not for sale but expressed readiness to discuss any other U.S. request regarding the island.”

Wall Street Journal: Trump’s talk of buying Greenland energizes island’s independence movement.

Politico: Trump joins history’s long line of suitors coveting Greenland.

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Denmark Sent Trump Private Messages on Greenland (Original Post) applegrove Yesterday OP

Greenland Independence Mountainguy 23 hrs ago #1

I believe that EndlessWire 22 hrs ago #2

That's true Mountainguy 21 hrs ago #3

Well, it works either way. EndlessWire 21 hrs ago #4

Mountainguy

(1,065 posts)

1. Greenland Independence

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Jan 11, 2025, 05:24 PM

23 hrs ago

doesn't sound like a terrible thing, TBH. It wasn't all that long ago that Iceland won Independence from Denmark as well.

EndlessWire

(7,338 posts)

2. I believe that

Reply to Mountainguy (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 11, 2025, 07:12 PM

22 hrs ago

Denmark stated that Greenland might pursue its independence but not to be a state of the US. It would be a mistake for Denmark to suddenly negotiate with Trump after he threatened them. So, this doesn't hearten me in the least. Let him have any greater power over Greenland, and give up the island anyway.

The pres-elect is a bully. You have to stand up to him.

Mountainguy

(1,065 posts)

3. That's true

Reply to EndlessWire (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 11, 2025, 07:32 PM

21 hrs ago

But I really think his sudden talk about Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal, and the Gulf of Mexico are all just distractions to his sentencing.

EndlessWire

(7,338 posts)

4. Well, it works either way.

Reply to Mountainguy (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 11, 2025, 07:43 PM

21 hrs ago

But since he's been on about Greenland from last time, I rather think that these are trial balloons, designed to gauge a reaction to his aggression. He is absolutely imitating Putin. It's like he needs a daddy to impress. He is basically a weak figure trying to be the neighborhood bully, and, "see what I can do?" Along the way, he'll make money.

He's trying to impress Putin.

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