From translate so idk how accurate it is but it sounds about right.
Vince Coglianese then asks whether Donald Trump thinks Greenlanders are “eager” to become American citizens. The president replies:
“I don’t know. I don’t think they’re ‘uneager,’ but I think we have to do it, and we have to convince them, and we have to have that land, because it’s not really possible to properly defend a large part of this world without it. So we need to have it, and I think we’ll get it.”
We’ve been “defending” a large part of the world for 70 years without owning Greenland.
Also, JDV:
It’s an island that—from a defensive perspective, and even an offensive one—is something we need, especially with the world as it is.
What the fuck? Literally agitating for war, claiming we need to grab Greenland so we can potentially attack someone else?
We’ve been “defending” a large part of the world for 70 years without owning Greenland.
Yes, but I think Trump doesn’t understand the very concept of voluntary agreement. He only feels right when he has power over a thing and they don’t have a choice about it.
He’ll occasionally accept something given to him without strings, but only by casting that person as a “sucker” (his voters for example). Everything is adversarial and zero-sum to him.
From translate so idk how accurate it is but it sounds about right.
We’ve been “defending” a large part of the world for 70 years without owning Greenland.
Also, JDV:
What the fuck? Literally agitating for war, claiming we need to grab Greenland so we can potentially attack someone else?
Someone else like Canada.
Yes, but I think Trump doesn’t understand the very concept of voluntary agreement. He only feels right when he has power over a thing and they don’t have a choice about it.
He’ll occasionally accept something given to him without strings, but only by casting that person as a “sucker” (his voters for example). Everything is adversarial and zero-sum to him.