Donald Trump threatens to annex Greenland, even though 85% of Greenlanders oppose this. The US wants to block China from the Arctic region, and profit from the territory's critical minerals.
“"We need [Greenland] for international security", Trump said. "We have a lot of our favorite players, you know, cruising around the coast, and we have to be careful", he added, obliquely referring to China and Russia.”
There are countless examples which prove that US hypocrisy on the world’s stage truly knows no bounds. For instance, in 2017, a Russian intelligence ship was spotted roughly 30 miles from the Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut. Even though the vessel was operating in international waters, its actions – no different than how our navy operates within Russia’s sphere of influence – still infuriated many in Washington. Congressman Joe Courtney called it an "unacceptable, aggressive action," noting that "a Russian spy ship patrolling 30 miles from the Groton SUBASE underscores that the threats posed by a resurgent Russia are real." Senator Chris Murphy tweeted that Russia "is acting like it has a permission slip to expand influence" and "test limits" by bringing one of its ships so close to the US.
On the other hand, in March 2019, the US military sent the Navy destroyer Curtis Wilbur and Coast Guard cutter Bertholf through the Strait of Taiwan to demonstrate the “US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” as a US military statement read at the time. This is a waterway just a few miles wider than the distance between Florida and Cuba.
Why does the US expect the world to play by a set of rules it has never been willing to comply with?
I believe that in the early stages of WWII, Japan invaded several Asian countries for the purposes of extracting various natural resources. We should all recall how that gambit turned out.
The greed and short-sightedness is astounding! All these people think of is "how can we extract resources, expand our hegemony, take take take, rape land, earth and sea, colonize and use the indigenous peoples for low cost labor." It is disgusting! Haven't we learned anything from history? We are the Big Bully of world and only a matter of time until the tables turn. No happy ending here.
Unfortunately, as above, it's not just minerals in Greenland, it's the huge resources of oil and gas in the Arctic coveted by the corporate climate vandals in the world. Remember, as stated by The Guardian 24 Jan 2025 (and others) ... "Big oil spent a stunning $445m throughout the last election cycle to influence Donald Trump and Congress .... That figure ... does not include money funneled through dark-money groups". Trump's Repubs do not respect life. They reject climate science, destroy norms of democracy and reject social respect and equity. They scorn the UN, ICC, ICJ and WHO, effectively telling the rest of the world to go to hell. Trump etc supports genocide. The 128 US bases throughout the world (feeding the dominant US arms industry) should be closed. We don't want to be "protected" by a fascist state.
"....While Trump threatened to colonize the autonomous territory of a NATO member, the NATO chief sitting next to him essentially gave the US president the green light.
"So, when it comes to Greenland, yes or no, joining the US, I would leave that outside, for me, this discussion, because I don’t want to drag NATO in that", said Secretary General Rutte....."
Actually the so-called "Secretary General" Rutte is in fact the disgraced former prime minster of the Netherlands......a country with a long and unashamed history of brutally colonising other countries. Like Indonesia in Asia, Surinam in South America and they even attempted to to colonise Taiwan centuries ago. And most notoriously the "Boers" who invaded South Africa and ruled it brutally? Dutch settlers colonialists.
No Rutte didnt have any problem with what America wants to do.
Could you explain his meaning? Did he seem to want there to be no United States or otherwise? (Because if he wanted no United States, I am with him.) I just watched a video by Laith on Substack about how nation-states were placed in the Middle East and how ultimately damaging they have become.
You mention the Artic ice melting from climate change exacerbated by Trumps drill baby drill, war, alleged debunking of climate change and the smearing of greener energy (a lot of this coming from alt. media itself). This melting has obvious geopolitical consequences but so will billions starving in Africa, India and West Asia. Why is no one talking about this?
Of course the Kalaallit aren't afraid of Russia or China. Trump isn't protecting them from anything. He doesn't want Russia or China to profit from trade routes or resources in the area. He just wants to colonise Kalaallit Nunaat.
It's very important though that the UK and EU populations believe that they've been abandoned by the US, that the US and Russia are already in an alliance, that a peace deal is imminent and that they now have to fight both US tariffs and Russia. No one will want to fight or accept military spending if they knew that they were Hegseth's little proxies and puppets.
“"We need [Greenland] for international security", Trump said. "We have a lot of our favorite players, you know, cruising around the coast, and we have to be careful", he added, obliquely referring to China and Russia.”
There are countless examples which prove that US hypocrisy on the world’s stage truly knows no bounds. For instance, in 2017, a Russian intelligence ship was spotted roughly 30 miles from the Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut. Even though the vessel was operating in international waters, its actions – no different than how our navy operates within Russia’s sphere of influence – still infuriated many in Washington. Congressman Joe Courtney called it an "unacceptable, aggressive action," noting that "a Russian spy ship patrolling 30 miles from the Groton SUBASE underscores that the threats posed by a resurgent Russia are real." Senator Chris Murphy tweeted that Russia "is acting like it has a permission slip to expand influence" and "test limits" by bringing one of its ships so close to the US.
On the other hand, in March 2019, the US military sent the Navy destroyer Curtis Wilbur and Coast Guard cutter Bertholf through the Strait of Taiwan to demonstrate the “US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” as a US military statement read at the time. This is a waterway just a few miles wider than the distance between Florida and Cuba.
Why does the US expect the world to play by a set of rules it has never been willing to comply with?
Because it always has!
American exceptionalism. Delusion.
I’d to see the USA implode under the weight of its many and serious internal problems, in order to stop its military aggression all over the world.
I would too, and I live here!
It would be far more logical for Alaska, Greenland and Canada to form an Inuit Republic. Together they would nearly equal the Russian Arctic border.
Inuit people with common culture have indeed lived in all these areas.
I believe that in the early stages of WWII, Japan invaded several Asian countries for the purposes of extracting various natural resources. We should all recall how that gambit turned out.
The United States of Arrogance
The greed and short-sightedness is astounding! All these people think of is "how can we extract resources, expand our hegemony, take take take, rape land, earth and sea, colonize and use the indigenous peoples for low cost labor." It is disgusting! Haven't we learned anything from history? We are the Big Bully of world and only a matter of time until the tables turn. No happy ending here.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-61222653
Unfortunately, as above, it's not just minerals in Greenland, it's the huge resources of oil and gas in the Arctic coveted by the corporate climate vandals in the world. Remember, as stated by The Guardian 24 Jan 2025 (and others) ... "Big oil spent a stunning $445m throughout the last election cycle to influence Donald Trump and Congress .... That figure ... does not include money funneled through dark-money groups". Trump's Repubs do not respect life. They reject climate science, destroy norms of democracy and reject social respect and equity. They scorn the UN, ICC, ICJ and WHO, effectively telling the rest of the world to go to hell. Trump etc supports genocide. The 128 US bases throughout the world (feeding the dominant US arms industry) should be closed. We don't want to be "protected" by a fascist state.
Bring America to its knees,then break them .Then we talk to Trump
"....While Trump threatened to colonize the autonomous territory of a NATO member, the NATO chief sitting next to him essentially gave the US president the green light.
"So, when it comes to Greenland, yes or no, joining the US, I would leave that outside, for me, this discussion, because I don’t want to drag NATO in that", said Secretary General Rutte....."
Actually the so-called "Secretary General" Rutte is in fact the disgraced former prime minster of the Netherlands......a country with a long and unashamed history of brutally colonising other countries. Like Indonesia in Asia, Surinam in South America and they even attempted to to colonise Taiwan centuries ago. And most notoriously the "Boers" who invaded South Africa and ruled it brutally? Dutch settlers colonialists.
No Rutte didnt have any problem with what America wants to do.
Traitorous henchmen of th emost dangerous and threatening country in the world and to the world.
“Well, if the Blacks, and the Puerto Ricans, and the Chicanos and the Indians all get what they want, then there won’t be any United States...?”
-- Oregon high school student questioning a Cherokee speaker from the American Indian Movement
When did this happen?
When I taught second grade in South Central LA, 1987. He was one of my students.
Could you explain his meaning? Did he seem to want there to be no United States or otherwise? (Because if he wanted no United States, I am with him.) I just watched a video by Laith on Substack about how nation-states were placed in the Middle East and how ultimately damaging they have become.
EXCUSES. It’s just Donald tryna pull a Hitler re-enactment on Greenland & feel better about his loser-4SS Kraut witch 🧙♀️…
You mention the Artic ice melting from climate change exacerbated by Trumps drill baby drill, war, alleged debunking of climate change and the smearing of greener energy (a lot of this coming from alt. media itself). This melting has obvious geopolitical consequences but so will billions starving in Africa, India and West Asia. Why is no one talking about this?
Colonizers gonna colonize.
Greenlanders arent afraid of Russia or China, so what's Trump's real agenda. TRUMP IS INSANE & WORSE THAN PUTIN!
Of course the Kalaallit aren't afraid of Russia or China. Trump isn't protecting them from anything. He doesn't want Russia or China to profit from trade routes or resources in the area. He just wants to colonise Kalaallit Nunaat.
It's very important though that the UK and EU populations believe that they've been abandoned by the US, that the US and Russia are already in an alliance, that a peace deal is imminent and that they now have to fight both US tariffs and Russia. No one will want to fight or accept military spending if they knew that they were Hegseth's little proxies and puppets.