Whenever a republican president wants to be reelected

Resources. The answer is always resources.

I think they have alien invasion plans.

These people are too stupid and incompetent to realize we already have plans for everything.

We stopped maintaining a handful of them, but waay later than you would expect. At some point we decided we didn't need a plan to deal with an invasion by the British empire kept up to date at all times.

I thought that was the definition of the pentagon? 🤔

The DoD had a plan to attack the U.S. and blame it on Cuba. Not an invasion, but attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

I find that a credible thought, though one would imagine an answer to say that they try to have plans for any concevaiable scenario, no matter how unlikely, and have done so for years.

One would imagine if he was good at this politics thing, he would have found an answer to distance such plans from the current contentious situation.

And upon reading, he said precisely that...

There must be some interesting behind the scenes to this, considering trump has repeatedly threatened their sovereignty in Greenland

We'd absolutely use Denmark as a springboard to invade Greenland.

Oh trust me, the Danish people find this highly criricisable. It's been debated a lot over the past months - but the government - which is made up of the neoliberal parties who's always had their tongues way up USA's ass - has done everything they can to push it under the rug and to make it as secretive as possible. These people see only profit and the thought of "losing" USA as a partner is worse than the fact that we just invited the enemy in - with a deal where they can do whatever they want to do and we can't even take them to court. Officially it's because of "the Russian threat" but the only country that'd ever invade Denmark or has ever threatened to do so is USA.. Russia has a few other countries to go through and they can't even win their current war.

We've just always been an American puppet state.

Everything

I have plans to start flossing regularly too.

I think they've said for strategic military reasons (don't know what's wrong with all the EU bases we have) but likely it's because of natural resources. Typical authoritarian shit.

The word on the street is that Peter Thiel and friends wan't it for a tech bro network state, with no regulation on AI (as in LLMs) and other tech fantasies.

Don't have a link, but it's public known that Thiel and friends wan't it, and that they seem to have the man in power in on it.

The Mercator projection made Greenland look very big on the map.

People tend to equate when a country or empire has the most territory as it being at it's height.

It's a vanity thing. He wants to see the words 'The United States of America was at it's territorial peak under President Donald Trump' echo through history.

Significant presence in the Arctic circle which may become more valuable with some climate change and/or closer relationship with Russia.

At least that's what I'd guess. Similar story with Canada, more land to have a better chance to respond to climate change.

no, only 'if necessary' lol

Too late we're already there

Doubtful

The contingency plan probably isn't about the people at all. It's likely the government has had a plan for a long time, maybe since WWII, about any number of countries including Greenland. Strategic points to either destroy or control. How to repel an invading force as well as how to invade against a repelling force.

That's who the US has become over the last 80 years.

That's 2k more than my small suburb I live in. That's nothing at all.

Denmark is a NATO country and Greenland is part of it. As soon as we attack all of NATO is obligated to attack us. They can start non violet by stopping all trade and dumping the dollar crashing our economy.

Even just to the Greenlanders could be a real problem.

People sabatogue blow up poison and casually murder you after giving in.

We can't murder everyone and the us has been shown to be very intolerant to a few thousand troop deaths not to mention civilian deaths on their side live on TV

It would absolutely be a cluster fuck worse than Iraq

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Beam

Actually there is, and the plans most likely predate Trump's first term. The US military has all kinds of plans to invade every square foot of land on earth.

The military had a shitload of plans on how to respond to Soviet military advances, including occupying strategically important locations like Greenland (for a forward base) and Panama (to disrupt shipping/commerce). The US Space Force (ugh) has a base on Greenland already, because it is a strategic location. If the USSR was able to occupy it first, it would be necessary to retake the area and they spent decades coming up with all kinds of plans for different scenarios!

So this is 100% Pete using something that already existed and promoting it as something the current administration came up with and mischaracterizing the reason that it exists in the first place.

It always has been. They're just going full mask off now.

That seems perfectly reasonable to plan for.

Having a defensive contingency plan is not the same as an offensive contingency plan.

Canada also has Crisis in Zefra, a futuristic training scenario commissioned from sci-fi author Karl Schroeder.