and the other Nordics would be a strong deterrent. And so far it has been. You can't compare this situation to ICE in Minneapolis; there were more people in a single Minneapolis demonstration than the entire population of Greenland, and the goal of ICE was not the seizure of sovereign territory (although sometimes it felt that way). Denmark reacting nonviolently to a US invasion would result in complete capitulation and the forfeiture of Greenland, but the presence of other European allies responding to the attempted taking of sovereign territory would set up a situation (NATO vs. NATO) that would be so politically toxic that even Trump would avoid it. He cares about politics, not harm to humans, and he's starting to seeing that play out wrt Iran. Greenland and Minneapolis aren't apples and oranges; they're apples and pipe wrenches. Not even close.

... this would be a NATO country attacking another member any way it went down. Maybe the US would get some dead soldiers, which Trump then could brag about - evidence of the hostile Danes. Such meaningless resistance is just stupid!

Nonviolence worked against ICE in Minneapolis because ICE wasn't the US Army trying to take over the state by force; they were a bunch of goons sent to kidnap and disappear immigrants. We dealt with them nonviolently and effectively by following them, recording them, notifying the neighborhood that they were present, protesting everywhere, and making it very difficult for them to function. This is a metropolitan area of more than 3 million people while Greenland's population is about 50,000. What are those people supposed to do if Trump sends US troops? Hold demonstrations and wave homemade cardboard signs? Record them on their phones? Blow whistles? Throw dildos at them? How do you think Denmark should resist? Or should they just capitulate and give up Greenland, effectively telling the rest of the world that they can't fight back if Trump comes for their territory as well?

for me.

Denmark was occupied by another fascist power not so many years ago, and I believe they are a proud people not willing to stand
for an assault from a so-called ally. And after what happened in Venezuela, I don't believe "building peace" was on their minds.

Good for Denmark, and her NATO allies.

of das homeland?

Where it's effective is when you are up against an oppressive force but there are more of you than there are of them, and you can take deliberate action to throw so much sand in their gears that their mission becomes untenable, either because they can't function as they intended and/or because their actions lead to significant public disapproval and resulting political backlash. This worked in Minneapolis, as it worked during the civil rights movement of the '60s and Gandhi's opposition to British rule in India. Often these movements take a long time to defeat the opposition. Had it not been for the public outrage following the murders of Good and Pretti, we probably would still have 3,000 ICE agents in Minneapolis and we would still be out by the hundreds following vehicles, blowing whistles and throwing dildos, and we'd have to keep doing it indefinitely.

Direct nonviolent action would absolutely not work against an invasion of Greenland by US military forces, however; not the least because there aren't enough people in Greenland to raise a resistance movement that could effectively drive the forces out. Resistance movements work only when there are so many people willing to stand in front of the tanks or link arms on a bridge or allow themselves to be arrested that the occupiers' systems become overwhelmed. That's the sand in the gears. But if the gears are so large that sand doesn't impede them, nonviolent methods fail. The US could easily take over an unarmed, unassisted Greenland, but not so easily the well-armed forces of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and France. Even if the larger US forces could win in the end, the cost, both political and military, would be too great.

Denmark and its allies took trump's threats seriously
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