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U.S. relinquished any claim to Greenland in 1916 (Original Post) Tanuki 13 hrs ago OP
K&R spanone 13 hrs ago #1
Greed and ignorance kill malaise 13 hrs ago #2
+1. Paperwork means nothing to the rapist dalton99a 13 hrs ago #3
Imperial powers, dividing up stuff leftstreet 13 hrs ago #4
People and stuff malaise 12 hrs ago #5
Exactly what chump and the oil companies were doing BidenRocks 12 hrs ago #12
Same for our phony invasion of IRAQ popsdenver 10 hrs ago #24
"Cheney/Rumsfeld could divide IRAQ up among six U.S. Oil Companies." Yup, you nailed it. Follow the money.nt mitch96 5 hrs ago #28
Biden's fault. twodogsbarking 12 hrs ago #6
Thanks, Obama. JoseBalow 12 hrs ago #7
Trump doesn't honor agreements, even the ones he makes. surfered 12 hrs ago #8
Erasing history is important for MAGA IronLionZion 12 hrs ago #9
I guess it's been caught in the right wing's craw since grampy Trump did the draft dodge out of... Hugin 12 hrs ago #10
These don't mean anything anymore. We were supposed to defend Ukraine Arazi 12 hrs ago #11
Might not want to ask the Kurds! BidenRocks 12 hrs ago #13
Exactly. Trump can do what ever the fuck he wants apparently. progressoid 10 hrs ago #18
Trump keeps claiming Russia and China are going to take over Greenland. OnlinePoker 11 hrs ago #14
trump has never honored agreements he, himself, made. Why would he honor agreements others made? nt Wounded Bear 11 hrs ago #15
All I see is "Denmark's rights to Greenland were confirmed". But where? How? Callie1979 11 hrs ago #16
Denmark extending their interests to the whole of Greenland ... TomWilm 10 hrs ago #23
Thanks very much! Callie1979 5 hrs ago #27
As confirmed by the US in 2004 with a new defense agreement ... TomWilm 11 hrs ago #17
Thanks for this Bayard 10 hrs ago #19
Screenshot for the Twitterless FakeNoose 10 hrs ago #20
K&R Bayard 10 hrs ago #21
I just hope tfg does not just start sending troops to the airbase in G'land.. More and more troops and then mitch96 10 hrs ago #22
Or... Wednesdays 8 hrs ago #25
The full treaty: "Convention between the United States and Denmark for cession of the Danish West Indies." sop 7 hrs ago #26

BidenRocks

(2,788 posts)
12. Exactly what chump and the oil companies were doing
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:34 PM
12 hrs ago

just the other day about Venezuela.
They were carving it up!

This isn't yours to cut up!

popsdenver

(1,569 posts)
24. Same for our phony invasion of IRAQ
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:27 PM
10 hrs ago

The entire U.S. Military, and taxpayer money spent, so that Cheney/Rumsfeld could divide IRAQ up among six U.S. Oil Companies.
The expenses for the IRAQ war are still continuing to mount...Injured, maimed soldiers, replacement of arms used, etc.
The current estimate for the U.S., so far, (for the total U.S. cost of the IRAQ war), just passed TWO TRILLION DOLLARS and still counting....
Rumsfeld told us the IRAQ invasion, was going to be over in THREE DAYS, the citizens of IRAQ would be lining the streets throwing flowers at our troops leaving, and the total cost to the U.S. Taxpayers would be THREE BILLION dollars, which would be repaid by IRAQ owned oil companies, from the sales of the countries oil in the first year.......

Greenland can't put up much resistance, I think their entire population is something like 50,000 people.
Putin desperately needs/wants not only Greenland, but Iceland, Northern Canada, and even Alaska if he can get it back.....
And Trump/Republicans will try and get it so that Putin won't disgrace them all with Kompromat collected over decades, along with all the Ton of Epstein material Putin possesses......

If Trump and Republicans go into Greenland, The other NATO countries will have to come from Europe to help defend Greenland from the U.S. (and Russia), and Trump will leave NATO........Greenland will be conquered without the U.S. to defend them, and the European NATO countries won't be able to help Greenland and also defend themselves form Putin's invasions, just like Hitler in WWII.

mitch96

(15,660 posts)
28. "Cheney/Rumsfeld could divide IRAQ up among six U.S. Oil Companies." Yup, you nailed it. Follow the money.nt
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 08:41 PM
5 hrs ago

surfered

(11,590 posts)
8. Trump doesn't honor agreements, even the ones he makes.
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:13 PM
12 hrs ago

During his second term, he imposed tariffs on those countries, effectively reneging the previous agreement he made, calling it “ a bad deal.”

IronLionZion

(50,830 posts)
9. Erasing history is important for MAGA
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:14 PM
12 hrs ago

they learn history only from confederate statues, not from any books, schools, or museums.

Hugin

(37,448 posts)
10. I guess it's been caught in the right wing's craw since grampy Trump did the draft dodge out of...
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:18 PM
12 hrs ago

The Kaiser’s empire.

I knew about Panama and Cuba. But, I have to admit this Greenland stuff caught me flat footed.

Arazi

(8,708 posts)
11. These don't mean anything anymore. We were supposed to defend Ukraine
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 01:24 PM
12 hrs ago

By signing the Budapest Agreement in 1994, we guaranteed Ukraine’s sovereignty and vowed to protect them if they gave up their nukes.

Now we’ve basically thrown them to the wolves and given them half-assed support insufficient to finish the Russians, ensuring Putin has had enough time to re-tool.

Greenland agreement from 1916?!!

Sigh…

OnlinePoker

(6,096 posts)
14. Trump keeps claiming Russia and China are going to take over Greenland.
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:12 PM
11 hrs ago

Russia can barely advance in Ukraine and China won't even go after Taiwan. It's laughable that either country would try go after Greenland.

Wounded Bear

(63,857 posts)
15. trump has never honored agreements he, himself, made. Why would he honor agreements others made? nt
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:18 PM
11 hrs ago

Callie1979

(1,153 posts)
16. All I see is "Denmark's rights to Greenland were confirmed". But where? How?
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:41 PM
11 hrs ago

Cane we read the agreement?

TomWilm

(1,946 posts)
23. Denmark extending their interests to the whole of Greenland ...
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:20 PM
10 hrs ago
1917 DECLARATION BETWEEN DENMARK AND THE US ABOUT GREENLAND

In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.






TomWilm

(1,946 posts)
17. As confirmed by the US in 2004 with a new defense agreement ...
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 02:42 PM
11 hrs ago
2004 Agreement Between The Government Of The United States Of America And The Government Of The Kingdom Of Denmark, Including The Home Rule Government Of Greenland.

... Thule Air Base is the only defense area in Greenland. ...

Signatories: Colin Powell (US), Per Stig Møller (Denmark), and Josef Motzfeldt (Greenland).


Bayard

(28,626 posts)
21. K&R
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:09 PM
10 hrs ago

trump--Sit down, and shut up!

I'd like to see Rachel Maddow do her thing about this, and the 2004 agreement. Publicize widely.

mitch96

(15,660 posts)
22. I just hope tfg does not just start sending troops to the airbase in G'land.. More and more troops and then
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 03:19 PM
10 hrs ago

some false flag operation to justify taking over Greenland..
It's in the dictators play book...
Like ruzzia retaliating for the attack on putins home that never happened...uff
m

Wednesdays

(21,612 posts)
25. Or...
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 05:19 PM
8 hrs ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident

The Gleiwitz incident ... was a false flag attack on the radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz (then Germany and now Gliwice, Poland) staged by Nazi Germany on the night of 31 August 1939. Along with some two dozen similar incidents, the attack was manufactured by Germany as a casus belli to justify the invasion of Poland. Prior to the invasion, Adolf Hitler gave a radio address condemning the acts and announcing German plans to attack Poland, which began the next morning. Despite the German government using the attack as a justification to go to war with Poland, the Gleiwitz assailants were not Polish but were German SS officers wearing Polish uniforms.


I smell a perfect job brewing for the Proud Boys and ex-J6'ers!

sop

(17,471 posts)
26. The full treaty: "Convention between the United States and Denmark for cession of the Danish West Indies."
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 06:23 PM
7 hrs ago

See "Declaration" on page 6 regarding Greenland.

https://loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1916DanishWestIndies.pdf

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