Sorry, Trump: this pact says Britain has first dibs on Greenland
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/sorry-trump-this-pact-says-britain-has-first-dibs-on-greenland-nhzvdmk5j?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1737894871
Posted by SojournerInThisVale
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As if that remotely matters to him, he’s trying to ignore and challenge the US constitution, like come on
As a Brit, now I feel really bad for Greenlanders.
They wanted independence from Denmark, and now they get stuck between Adolf Shitler’s America and Spineless Stamer’s Broken Britain.
No-one has dibs on Greenland.
And besides, they’ve got more midges than Scotland, they can keep them.
Honestly, our government is terrifyingly weak on this matter. [Lammy said](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/09/us-seizure-of-greenland-is-not-going-to-happen-says-david-lammy) that Trump’s concerns are around economic security and basically dismiss any concerns, but recent [reports](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-frederiksen-denmark-greenland-call-b2686079.html) are saying that the Danes offered military cooperation and natural resource exploitation, but Trump is not interested in that, he seems interested in outright annexation. Plenty of European leaders have reiterated that Danish and Greenlanders’ sovereignty must be respected, why can’t our government do the same?
Greenlanders should do a referendum to join the US
Will be interesting to see what the UK does if US actually does invade, I’m worried the government is just going to let it happen without consequence, as not to tarnish our ‘special relationship’.
Greenland should be able to decide for themselves what they want.
Like international agreements matter to him.
NATO is an international defence organisation founded by treaty and he’s out there threatening allies with taking their territory.
20 years later it’s filled with Indians and Pakistanis
There’s a really simple solution. The US joins the UK as their newest county, then the UK can ask Denmark nicely. Problem solved.
I like how the majority of Americans probably can’t even point to Greenland on a map but want it because daddy dump says so.
It’s like he doesn’t know about the British museum.
He won’t stop at greenland it’ll be the arctic after that, they are after the mineral rights, and will be a lovely place to live when the worlds on fire.
You think you can challenge a man like trump with laws? He’s the expert on breaking them, that doesn’t intimidate him.
Doesn’t Starmer need to stand up in public and say, Denmark is our ally, we’ve delivered nukes to Greenland, and if the US invades we will defend?
A Government that is paying billions to give away a strategically important territory should have absolutely no say over what another territory does.