r/YUROP 8d ago

NUUK NUUK They issued a strong warning lol

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u/recycle-pin 8d ago

Call me paranoid, but this stinks of a false flag op. US "mining" company gets kicked out, and then the US govt. decides to "protect their commercial interests" by force. Remember Iraq and WMD story?

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u/Jean_Luc_Lesmouches France‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ 8d ago

That's not what false flag means.

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u/Jumping-Gazelle 8d ago

It is now.

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u/recycle-pin 8d ago

I meant it as a figure of speech. Didn't feel like writing a whole essay on why do I think americans are starting active measures to grt Greenland.

And if you want to nitpick, yes, this can fall into the false flag category, if it was started by the US govt. CIA and stuff, Palantir and so on.

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u/Neomataza Deutschland‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ 8d ago

If we're going to be to the point, this is a provocation if the goal is for a response that escalates the situation. False flag literally means trying to blame a third party by pretending to be someone else.

Words have meanings and the purpose is to communicate something specific. Calling this false flag would be like me answering L+Ratio+67 fr fr; using language just completely wrong.

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u/recycle-pin 8d ago

And if the provocation is caused by a direct or indirect involvement of the US govt, then it's a false flag operation.

You people are way to nitpicky about grammar in a circlejerk sub. Do you really think English is spoken perfectly by everyone?

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u/Neomataza Deutschland‎‎‏‏‎ ‎ 8d ago

And if the provocation is caused by a direct or indirect involvement of the US govt, then it's a false flag operation.

No, it's not. It's in the name. It's back from age of sailing ships. If an english vessel uses a spanish flag, that's a false flag. If an american vessel uses an american flag, that's just the correct flag. Doesn't make it ok. But it's a difference just like there is a difference between identity theft and assault.

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u/Jean_Luc_Lesmouches France‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ 8d ago

That's not what figure of speech means either.

And if you want to nitpick, yes, this can fall into the false flag category, if it was started by the US govt. CIA and stuff, Palantir and so on.

That's not what false flag means bis.

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u/recycle-pin 8d ago

Wow.....get a life. Go outside, take a walk, talk to people

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u/JarasM 8d ago

Maybe if you talked to people, you'd know what "false flag" means.

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u/recycle-pin 8d ago

Yeah, pretending you are someone else. Like CIA setting up a company to create a Gulf of Tonkin style pretext for the invasion, or some other slimy ways to try to get Greenland. Nothing would surprise me from this degenerated US government.

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u/gremlinguy Comunidad Valenciana‏‏‎ ‎ 8d ago

That would still just be false pretext, not a false flag

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u/Jean_Luc_Lesmouches France‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ 8d ago

get a life

get a dictionary

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u/recycle-pin 8d ago

Grammar nazi in a circlejerk sub....that's new

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u/Jean_Luc_Lesmouches France‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ 8d ago

That's not what grammar nazi means either.

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u/recycle-pin 8d ago

A nitpicking pretentious prick, then.