Trump just put off a meeting with Denmark because they won't talk about selling Greenland

Trump insulted the Greenlanders and the Danish people. You can pretend otherwise, but the response from the Danish leaders show otherwise. There will be no “deal” while Trump is President. Trump is a spoiled dick.

 

Trump tried to treat Greenland like it was a hooker on the street. Trump is a dick.

 

Why else would we need to talk to this monarchy?

 

No, Denmark has a law that states Greenland will be independent as soon as the islanders decide to go independent.
If you reread what Danish PM said, you will see that she says - Denmark doesn’t sell Greenland because it’s not up to danish people to do so, it’s up to Greenlanders to decide their fate. Which means, Denmark will give it for free if the US convinces Greenland to join the US.

Insulting danish government over Greenland was a very bad idea - it trashes our image and makes the discussion with Greenlanders more difficult. Trump should have come to Denmark and discuss with PM not the sale, but US government reaching out to local leadership in Greenland for talks.

 

Trump is way beyond unstable now. He's irrational and becoming (along with America) irrelevant on the international stage. No American position or project will be taken seriously by the rest of the world while he is President.

 

It's Denmark. It's not like it matters.

 

You make Denmark sound important, that's funny...

 

I f all he did was to "float" the idea then why would he cancel the bilateral meeting with Denmark and site that his "reason" is because the PM of Denmark is not willing to discuss the purchase of Greenland. Do you see the inconsistency with his statement and do you see the contradiction between Trump's actions and your statement that he only "floated" the idea.

No he is not Hitler ! Hitler would have had the testicular fortitude to just invade Greenland. Of course Hitler's actually did invade Denmark. Yet remember that Hitler was crazy as a Nazi or us that crazy as a loon. You choose.

 

You seriously do not know or are you just trying to defend the infedesible? Denmark is a NATO country albeit one of the smaller one. Any US president who is intelligent, not a traitor who would love him some Putin and Russia would periodically have one on one meetings with fellow NATA members? Why you Ask?? Because we along with our allies in NATO are in the through of dealing with a beligerant hostile force of putrid hostility called Russia.

 

Denmark matter as does every NATO state. Montenegro and Macedonia are not exactly mega powers but NATO 's power in in the collective forces of all civilized countries who will stand up against Rusian barbarianism.

 

Denmark does have importance in that it has a strategic position on the Baltic choke point and Greenland. You do not think that Greenland is important?? Well I know it is important and Inwant us to own or at least control it.

 

Greenland isn't important now, it could be if it ever became hospitable. I see it sort like Canada, its ours, we just haven't taken it yet. Denmark is stupid, they should sell now, otherwise we'll just annex it later, like Canada has to be. Denmark itself could burn to ashes and the world wouldn't even notice...

 

As the planet warms up, and do not let the Rush Limbaugh idiots fool you global warming will speed up , the Arctic passage will open for shipping and for exploration so we need to position ourselves to strike before the Russians and ChiComs get further in.

Canada should be part of the US except for the French speaking part which we could keep bottled up. We do not need three languages to deal with. Having signs and forms and translators for the Spanish language is costly enough.

 

Wow, I actually agree with you! Especially about Quebec.

Although for the record, if the planet warms up, it has nothing to do with people...

 

No not the people but controlling Canada would give us a foot up against the Russians in the Arctic. Controlling Greenland and Canada and of course Alaska which we already have would block Russia expansionism from the Artic and from North America.

 

Sorry, I thought you understood. There is and can be no middle ground here. Canada and Greenland are incapable of defending themselves from a gaggle of boy scouts, their entire survival depends on the US. If the US is going to face the risks and pay the price it is stupid to allow either of those places any independence at all, they must be annexed or bought. Looking towards Greenland I suppose we could sue those scumbags in Denmark if the ice melts and ocean rise is attributed, its their rock, their responsibility for what it does to the world. Denmark would be bankrupt in a day if significant flooding occurred in Maine, forget all the cities on the eastern seaboard. They'll be wishing they sold when that bill comes due...

 

I doubt they were interested in catching up on their dues either. They are not one of the 5 members paying in the agreed upon 2% for defense. Makes one think they don't really consider Russia that much of a threat either.

 

Yeah never happening.

 

The 2% is not dues. That is a misunderstanding or Fake News that Trump and his fans throw around. It is the tecomended targeted percent of GDP that a NATO country is supposed to spend on defense. We spend 3.6% and we also spend more in raw dollars than anyone else in the world except maybe the Chinese.

 

Of course I "understand" every knows that Canada is not a large country population wise and Denmark is smaller in population obviously. NATO is a collective security arrangement. We are not going to take away the Canadian independence even if we want to. We are not going to invade Denmark nor Greenland. Do you understand. Of I would love it if we controlled all of Canada and Greenland but it ain't gonna happen in the next 3or 4 centuries.

 

Wouldn't you think nations worried about Russia would pay more into the defensive alliance that protects them from Russia?

Denmark clearly isn't worried about Russia.

 

Of course it goes without saying that those countries such as the Baltic countries who have a border with Russia and still have the memory the terrorism the Russians/USSR brought them spend more of their GDP on defense. You could put Poland in that group even though Poland does not have an Eastern border with Russia. They donin the awe St with Kaliningrad ( know as Koenegburg when it was part of Germany)which the post WWII allies very stupidly gave to the Soviet and Russia committed genocide against the Germans.

Yet NATO and the EU go hand in hand. Russia is an economic and political threat to Europe not limited to Russia's military aggression.

 

Would trump and his cultists be for this if the condition for the purchase was statehood? Somehow I doubt it.

 

Hey Trump fans, why don't you keep collectively insulting Greenland and Denmark. Maybe that will make them entertain Trump's advances. The art of the deal? LOL!!!

 

So why don't they spend more on defense?