Donald Trump’s desire to annex Greenland will not be thwarted and there could be meaningful U.S. action related to the Arctic island within “weeks or months,” according to a senior administration official.

That’s the view of Thomas Dans, Trump’s Arctic commissioner. He’s regarded as one of the main proponents of the president’s interest in Greenland, an idea first brought to Trump by billionaire and former diplomat Ronald Lauder.

Dans has been working on the issue since 2020.

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      11 days ago

      Because attacking a friendly allied (Greenland) is just met with a shoulder shrug among the American public…

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        17% of US citizens apparently are of the opinion that the US should take Canada, according to another story…

        68 million, -ish, US citizens, are of that opinion?

        It’s only a matter of time, then.

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        I think you’re being sarcastic? Sure the end of NATO and subsequent murderous imperialism might trigger a major political rupture in the USA, especially when the economic losses and body counts come in, but there’s a possibility the magafascists can spin things along with just a lot of dissent and lost trade. If civil war doesn’t start over that, pretty sure some states would move to secede over an invasion of Canada.

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          You don’t understand dictatorship, then.

          USA, but modelled on Syria/Assad…

          THAT can go on for a LONG time…

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