France is working with partners on a plan over how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday.

  • Microw@piefed.zip
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    3 days ago

    Look, I dont think the US will launch an all-out military invasion of Greenland. But there are two or three other ways how they could try to gain control over Greenland’s natural resources, and I absolutely believe that they will try that.

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      3 days ago

      The US does not have to invade Greenland, they are already there. I’m not sure about the strength of Danish, Greenlandic and US-forces on Greenland, but I’m pretty sure that they just could appoint the commander of Pituffik Space Base as military governor and arrest the couple of Danish soldiers and Greenlandic police using the forces already on Greenland.

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      3 days ago

      With this approach I can agree. I just don’t see military action as a viable approach when it can be far more effective against governments in South America. The US has a LONG history of fucking with South America. I doubt they’ll change that course now.

      I worry about Cuba.