General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Fetterman: Greenland has 'massive strategic benefits' for U.S.
"I believe Greenland has massive strategic benefits for the United States. I do not support taking it by force. America is not a bully. Ideally, we purchase itsimilar to our purchases of Alaska or the Louisiana Purchase. Acquiring Greenland is a many decades old conversation."
The statement comes as the White House recently announced that the Trump administration is weighing options to take control of Greenland, an island rich in minerals and strategically well-located for U.S. interests. The White House even said Tuesday that the U.S. military is always an option.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen issued a joint statement alongside multiple European leaders in response to the Trump administrations remarks, saying, Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.
https://www.abc27.com/pennsylvania/sen-fetterman-greenland-has-massive-strategic-benefits-for-u-s/
Link to tweet
MineralMan
(150,694 posts)You're not at all well.
31st Street Bridge
(104 posts)NOT the 1980s. The 980s.
niyad
(129,824 posts)in fact, a bully.
leftstreet
(38,983 posts)Oh wait - so does he!
NewHendoLib
(61,620 posts)Autumn
(48,771 posts)31st Street Bridge
(104 posts)He's the scion of a central-Pa York County fortune who cosplayed as a blue collar dude and hid in a working-class western Pa. town. He was a right-wing plant from the start. Conor Lamb was the far better candidate in that primary, but somehow Zombie John fooled enough people to squeak by.
Autumn
(48,771 posts)displacedvermoter
(4,170 posts)All great nations go through a stage of growth that clearly laps over into being a bully, or even a mass murderer.
But nations evolve, develop a collective conscience, and do their best to learn from past bad conduct.
America is regressing under Trump and Miller and company, and John the Slug Fetterman is doing all he can to help.
What a joke this man is.
thomski64
(852 posts)..and fill Sinema's high heels..
BeyondGeography
(40,847 posts)This is all about Trump putting his name on a big spot on the map. Dont be such a rube, John.
Irish_Dem
(80,059 posts)No money for vaccines, education, science, healthcare, etc.
No money to run the federal govt.
But tons of money to invade or buy other countries.
a kennedy
(35,379 posts)🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
markodochartaigh
(5,086 posts)Or to help Trump's friends win elections, like the $40 billion to Milei.
CrispyQ
(40,719 posts)mucifer
(25,543 posts)Doodley
(11,674 posts)a kennedy
(35,379 posts)🤬 🤬 🤬
Raven123
(7,579 posts)Blues Heron
(8,435 posts)Henry203
(877 posts)I knew he was a phony. By the way Sweden, Finland and Norway is important strategically.
doc03
(38,860 posts)I have seen him on TV apparently in his unfinished basement, people fall for that one of the people bullshit.
Ocelot II
(129,329 posts)The acquisitions of Alaska and the Louisiana territory are not useful or accurate analogies. Russia sold Alaska to the US because it desperately needed money. Denmark doesn't need money. France sold the Louisiana territory, which it had not settled outside New Orleans, because Napoleon was unable to control the territory and feared renewed war with Britain. What the US actually bought was the preemptive right to obtain Native lands by treaty or by conquest, to the exclusion of Spain or France. They were not purchases of a self-governing entity that was an integral part of an allied country. Denmark doesn't want to sell Greenland and Greenlanders don't want to become Americans. That should end the discussion right there.
Hey, Fetterman, lots of people of German descent live in Pennsylvania, so, what if Germany wanted to buy Pennsylvania? Would you be OK with that?
Johonny
(25,557 posts)Do we not trust Denmark suddenly? The whole thing is stupid
Tribetime
(7,079 posts)What about the citizens of the United States that are starving?You j******

no_hypocrisy
(54,389 posts)A. Money
B. Threats to Wife and family
C. Both
Ritabert
(2,031 posts)Takket
(23,500 posts)our party has got to do some serious soul searching about how people like Sinema and Fetterman are slipping through the cracks into the Senate and undermining our own positions. We need to figure out how to ID and eliminate these people in the primary process.
Manchin, I mean, he drove us all insane, but that's the best you are getting past the voters in WV. But there is no reason senators like this should be slipping through in states like AZ and PA, and worse yet, if anyone like this ever got elected president then changed all their tunes once sworn in.
Sneederbunk
(17,289 posts)Luciferous
(6,556 posts)since he was elected.
marmar
(79,322 posts)..... they go rotten soon after you get home.
Norbert
(7,605 posts)Should we buy them? STFU Joe Manchin, I mean, Sen Fetterman.
TexLaProgressive
(12,680 posts)Before my Mom and Dad got married.
republianmushroom
(22,125 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:33 PM - Edit history (1)
Rebl2
(17,444 posts)Fetterman been. Yes America is a bully now.
Borogove
(543 posts)rogue emissary
(3,340 posts)Paying for it would still be bullying. As a majority of it's inhabitants have no interest in being part of USA.