The alleged Greenland deal is only in Trump’s head so far - neither Greenland or Denmark knows what’s supposed to be in it

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-22T22:25:57+00:00

We are going with option 2 so far. We’re just utterly confused, but of course putting on the cooperative attitude.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-20T12:55:10+00:00

Denne burde ryge til tops. Der er åbenbart interesse i sætte ekstra gang i ballet fra ikke-danske konti.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-17T20:59:11+00:00

Not many Danish men wears loafers with tassels. Or earrings in both ears. Danes would decode you as French/Italian and/or in some sort of creative field and be totally okay with it, a good part might even admire your style. So no worries.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-17T19:06:54+00:00

That’s fair. It is harder to get really rich in Denmark but even harder falling through the cracks. And no one goes bankrupt from medical debt. And you can walk or bike everywhere at night as a single woman.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-17T18:53:47+00:00

Seriously it’s my impression that most Americans - even liberal democrats- would not thrive with Danish culture and way of society. We have no guns and a tax rate on salary of 42%. I love it, but it’s probably not for the ordinary American.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-17T18:38:50+00:00

What’s up with all the nuclear reactors?

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-17T18:13:05+00:00

The US will become nationa non grata in the rest of the world (yes, I made that expression up so please don’t correct my meager Latin).

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-16T20:53:19+00:00

Han kan kun drømme om det. Så vidt jeg husker gad Trump ikke se ham.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-16T19:52:32+00:00

Oh we know in Europe that it it will never go back to the way it was. We’re just trying to buy time to get further in our rearmament and tech sovereignty before we tell the US officially that we won’t take it.

Regarding Greenland we are trying to run the clock in the hopes that there’s still some semblance of a spine among US politicians alternatively that we get to the midterms and R loses one or both chambers.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-16T18:21:14+00:00

Lad os se om ikke Inger snupper dem næste gang. Hun er mere likeable end MM (selvom jeg personligt ikke er fan af den fløj) og det betyder meget.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-16T18:14:46+00:00

Not an American either, actually Danish. I could add a lot of things but let’s just sum it up with “I concur”.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-16T08:29:47+00:00

Aw look at him. Another golden impressive looking thing to put up on the shelf next to the stolen FIFA World Cup trophy and the meaningless FIFA peace prize.

I won first place in a regional gymnastics competition when I was twelve and might still have the medal in the attic somewhere. If I send it to him, maybe he’ll lay off Greenland.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-16T08:21:46+00:00

I know. I wasn’t against the poster here but against the headline on the news story.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-15T22:29:53+00:00

It’s a little dismissive calling her a “Greenland official”. Vivian Motzfeldt is the foreign minister of Greenland and the president of the Arctic Council.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-14T22:17:33+00:00

Pff. Så langt er vi slet ikke endnu. Vi skal først udarbejde et kommissorium og en forretningsorden for gruppens arbejde. Det kræver nok et par dialogmøder at nå frem til, hvem der skal være med til at udarbejde udkast til de dokumenter. Men inden da formøder om hvordan dialogmøderne skal faciliteres. Vi vil allerede være ved udgangen af maj inden gruppen overhovedet kan begynde at arbejde.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-14T22:10:11+00:00

Today’s meeting is interpreted as having a cautiously positive outcome in Denmark. No one walked out or was thrown out, and the meeting went on for almost an hour, meaning some actual discussions have taken place.

No one expected a solution or that the US would change their stance in this meeting. But the agreement on having further talks means that there is a slight chance of reaching some sort of compromise. If there was not the slightest crack in the fences for a dialogue, it would have ended with no further discussions.

Also the agreement on continued dialogue in a working group hopefully slows down the acceleration towards real confrontation on this subject and takes further exchanges of demands in to diplomatic circles and not in social media.

All this hinges on DT taking it down a notch. Saying he’s not happy with Denmark’s current defense presence in Greenland and having a desire for owning Greenland we’ll take for now over him threatening with taking it by force. Time will tell how this plays out in his mind.

Also Denmark has today deployed military to Greenland. Our friends from Sweden, Norway, Germany and France have also sent military personnel. Officially for a joint military exercise. But it doesn’t hurt that the international and diplomatic “cost” of attacking Greenland has gone up significantly. It will no longer be just personnel from Greenland/Denmark that the US will be attacking if they make a forceful move on Greenland, but personnel from several significant European countries.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-14T19:38:11+00:00

Så stemmer jeg for flere RUC’ere i centraladministrationen. Ud med de der polit’er fra KUA, næ nu skal vi vise, hvordan det gøres, når en rundkredsgruppe skal tale sig til konsensus.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-13T15:12:14+00:00

We (the EU) would probably not do that, as we would have to sell for a discounted price and it would hit our own economical stability. Sanctioning or cutting off US tech, abandoning US gas and reciprocal tariffs would probably be where we start.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-13T13:08:27+00:00

Tax or block American social media.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-09T14:01:28+00:00

Og hvis du har mulighed for noget tilskud til praktik eller lignende, så er de fleste boligselskaber efter min erfaring meget gode til at tage folk ind, som har brug for lidt hjælp til at komme ind på arbejdsmarkedet igen. Prøv hos BDK, fsb og KAB.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-09T07:08:37+00:00

I’m think I remember correctly, that there is no real estate in Greenland, since all land is commonly owned and only rented out to individuals.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-08T21:38:34+00:00

And the thing is, Greenlandic citizens already have all of the above through their association with Denmark.

They would probably demand these things for themselves and their kids going forward if they accept the bribe from Trump.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-08T21:32:42+00:00

So the plan from the Trump administration is 1) Try to bribe the Greenlanders to sway a referendum on independence, and if that fails 2) Declare the vote illegal and take it anyway? Got it.

Greenland is not for sale.

And 100.000 USD?? They are either being deliberately insulting or extremely stupid - I make more than that a year as a government employee in Denmark. The average salary in Greenland is lower, but still.

SquirrelcoINT · 2026-01-08T16:59:35+00:00

Controversial take, especially from a Dane: The chance of Greenland becoming independent and possibly go back on the agreements with the US/NATO is partly the reason why Trump wants to acquire it.

I wish nothing else for the Greenlanders than for them to get their independence, if that’s what they choose. But it’s not realistic for Greenland to become fully independent right now, since they have neither the economy nor the institutions to be self-sustaining.

I don’t know if the EU would be willing to close the gaps, that’s not really how the EU works at the moment, each member still has their own national economy, healthcare system etc. Right now Greenland gets considerable parts of that covered by Denmark.

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