The Greenland order
Trump and his toads continue their push to grab Greenland.
The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island, according to two people familiar with the effort.
Several high-ranking officials under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a “collection emphasis message” to intelligence-agency heads last week. They were directed to learn more about Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes on American resource extraction on the island.
As one does before an invasion.
The Greenland order, which went to agencies including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, underscores the administration’s apparent commitment to seek control of the self-governing island. It forms part of the Kingdom of Denmark, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization member and a decadeslong ally.
Yeah the same way Hitler “sought control” of the Sudetenland.
Asked by NBC News in an interview that aired Sunday whether he would rule out seizing Greenland by force, Trump demurred.
“I don’t rule it out,” he said. “I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we’ll take care of, and we’ll cherish them, and all of that. But we need that for international security.”
And if we say we need it very badly, that means we get to grab it.
Denmark’s foreign minister says he will summon the US ambassador to address a report that Washington’s spy agencies have been told to focus on Greenland amid Donald Trump’s threats to take over the island.
“It worries me greatly because we do not spy on friends,” Lars Løkke Rasmussen said, responding to the report in The Wall Street Journal.
(Don’t we? I bet we do.)
Rasmussen, who was attending an EU ministers meeting in Warsaw, said the report was “somewhat disturbing”.
“We are going to call in the US acting ambassador for a discussion at the foreign ministry to see if we can confirm this information,” Rasmussen said. “It doesn’t seem to be strongly rejected by those who speak out. That worries me.”
You and us both.
I can’t bring myself to believe that the independence movement would rather be subject to Trump’s USA than actually become, you know, independent. I can’t even imagine they’d prefer rule by the USA over rule by Denmark. That’s not how the desire for independence works, and I expect that Greenlanders really don’t want to be sent to Libya.
I really wish reporters would stop asking him if he would rule something out. He *never* rules anything out and they might be giving him ideas.