This Greenland Shit
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Denmark, Greenland and the United States have a “fundamental disagreement” over the future of the territory in the North Atlantic, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the Danish foreign minister, said on Wednesday after a meeting with top Trump administration officials.
The meeting in Washington — hours after President Trump said the United States “needs Greenland” — was the first among the three governments to discuss Mr. Trump’s desire to buy or take the semiautonomous Danish territory.
Mr. Rasmussen and Vivian Motzfeldt, the Greenland foreign minister, met with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Afterward, Mr. Rasmussen called the discussion “frank” and “constructive” even as he underscored that Denmark has no interest in changing the status quo.
“Our perspectives continue to differ,” he said. “The president has made his view clear. And we have a different position.”
But, he said, there was also progress: The governments will form a working group, likely within weeks, to try to find a path forward that accommodates Mr. Trump’s security concerns, without violating the territorial integrity of the Danish kingdom or the Greenlanders’ right to self-determination
The best explanation I’ve seen is that Miller and a group very close to the President have determined that they want to blow up NATO, but cannot do so through normal channels in a timeframe that would be possible given the President’s health. Evidently this group does not trust JD Vance to go through with it (it is appropriate and correct to not trust JD Vance on anything) which is why it has to be NOW. Venezuela got the Old Man’s blood all angried up, and so we’re pushing on Greenland. So far, nobody is buying:
An large majority of voters, 86 percent, would oppose the United States trying to seize Greenland by military force, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University. Fifty-five percent also said they would oppose the United States trying to buy Greenland, though they were divided along party lines, with 22 percent of Republicans opposed, compared to 85 percent of Democrats. The survey interviewed 1,133 people from Jan. 8 to Jan. 12 and had a margin of error of 3.7 percent.
He’ll get support from the Cult if he goes through with it, but the Senate GOP is making much angrier noises about this than pretty much anything else he’s done. So we shall see.
No idea how this works out. In other news, apparently he’s decided we’re not bombing Iran?
President Trump on Wednesday said Iran had stopped killing antiregime protesters and wouldn’t execute those it accused of trying to topple the government, appearing to narrow the possibility that the U.S. was about to launch military strikes against the country.
Speaking at the White House, Trump told reporters that the U.S. had been notified Iran had “no plans to carry out any executions of protesters.”
“We’ve been told that killing in Iran is stopping—it has stopped,” Trump said. “That has just gotten to me, some information, that the killing has stopped, that the executions have stopped—they are not going to have an execution, which a lot of people were talking about for the last couple of days. Today was going to be the day of execution.” He said that he hoped what officials had been told was true.
… lots of chatter online that airstrikes on Iran may come tonight, if they aren’t already underway. Won’t link to any of it because I can’t begin to vouch for it, but worth paying some attention to if you want to hunt it down.