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A reminder that Greenland is part of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) of the EU and Greenlandic citizens are EU citizens.
Any move by Trump and the US to invade and annex Greenland would be a declaration of war with the EU and a gross violation of its 1951 treaty to protect Greenland from attack. (Though not ironic as the mafia never protects you from itself.) Furthermore, an attack on a NATO member would be deemed an attack on all other NATO members (Art 5) and a violation of the treaty (Art 8).
If neither EU nor NATO members did anything to protect Greenland/Denmark against the US’s overwhelming military might (as is likely) – and, remember, US troops are already in Greenland and in other EU countries also – it would signal that no EU or NATO state is safe should a stronger military decide to invade.
If anything, if the EU hasn’t understood it yet, it must start treating the US not as an ally but as a threat. Trump isn’t a clown. He’s the fascist leader of the country with – in the words of Kamala Harris – the world’s most lethal military.
We must shore up our defenses because it is becoming impossible to ignore that the EU is caught between two hostile forces: a fascist US on the one side and a fascist Russia on the other, neither of which have two shits to give about international law (that was a quaint concept while it lasted, wasn’t it?)
Either we learn to defend ourselves in the EU or we become a vassal state of Gilead. And, as much as I oppose militaries – in a world in which they very much exist – I’d much rather it wasn’t the latter.
@aral “the call frightened Danish authorities and moved both parties farther from a deal.” What weird framing. This is Trump-speak. There is no “deal” to be had. There is nothing on the table that Trump is entitled to. He’s not entitled to Greenland, not a bit of it. Greenland belongs to itself. Making a “deal” about Greenland is a non-starter.
@juliette “The villain pointed his gun at her head. She moved her head away, moving both parties farther from a deal.”
@aral Trump lives in a world where everything and everyone can be bought, you just have to find the right price. That’s because he’s surrounded himself with people he did buy, including his wife and children. He literally cannot fathom that some things are not and will never be for sale. All those who are not for sale have stepped as far away as possible from him.
@aral Journalists need to stop playing along and acting as if there is something the Danes and the Greenlanders want in exchange for Greenland. They just want to be left the fuck alone.
