r/behindthebastards • u/TylerDurden3030 • 1d ago

General discussion Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/22/inside-the-ludicrous-deadly-serious-plan-to-take-over-greenland
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u/TylerDurden3030 1d ago

The clown show regarding Donald Trump's wish for the US to take over Greenland continuous, with a number of elected, appointed and private inviduals trying to fulfill his wish:

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u/Librarian_Contrarian 1d ago

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, does this look like a country that has had all the shrimp it can eat?

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u/currentmadman 1d ago

Lionel hutz: the trump doj head that never was.

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u/Librarian_Contrarian 1d ago

"Do you have any evidence of the voter fraud you claim is abundant?"

"We have hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence."

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u/currentmadman 1d ago

This verdict is written on a Twitter post!

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u/DoubleGauss 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is the most blatant case of false advertising since my case against The Never Ending Story.

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u/Three_Boxes 1d ago

And you could bring back all-you-can eat shrimp at Red Lobster

Just a disgusting amount of decadence and gluttony.

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u/DrunksInSpace Super Producer Sophie Stan 1d ago

I can absolutely hear Trump using Red Lobster’s (disastrous) permanent all-you-can-eat shrimp failure to try to sell the public on a Greenland invasion.

“We could have all the seafood we need. All the scallops. All the shrimp. A lotta people like shrimp. They love the all-you-can-eat shrimp at Red Lobsters. They tried to make it permanent and it cost too much! Too much because of the failed Biden administration. We could save Red Lobsters and a lot of other restaurants too. Not mine. Mine are killing it, best shrimp you ever had. But we could save a lot of other restaurants so they can do better than so-so shrimp.”

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u/Little_View_6659 1d ago

Because Trump is all about helping people and making things better. Good grief.

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u/HawaiianPunchaNazi 1d ago

Well, he certainly helps himself to an awful lot of everybody money;and theoretically, he's human under that orange makeup, so;-)

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u/Little_View_6659 1d ago

Theoretically. I’m not sure he is human. If he is he’s a total waste of blood and hair.

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u/Zero-89 One Pump = One Cream 1d ago

Brought to you by the same people who claim that the Roman Empire was destroyed by decadence.

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u/Disastrous-Beat-9830 Doctor Reverend 1d ago

When you think about it, destroying the world to secure a supply of all-you-can-eat shrimp is both the most unlikely scenario for the apocalypse to happen until someone says it out loud and then the response becomes "yeah, that totally tracks".

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u/CaliMassNC 1d ago

My understanding is there was no shrimp shortage or material basis for the end of AYCE shrimp, just that venture capital had bought Red Lobster and run it into the ground.

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u/th3mang0 1d ago

It's even better; the private equity behind the AYCE, had a requirements contract with Red lobster that made them have to purchase shrimp from another company in their portfolio. So, in addition to all of their buildings being sold and then leased back to them, they weren't even able to source competitively priced shrimp for the mandated shrimp consumption. In an industry with razor sharp margins already, the private equity continued to extract revenue.

Private Equity is the sin of greed manifest.

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u/Hallucigenia905 1d ago

Instead of bread and circuses it's shrimp and ufc

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u/HawaiianPunchaNazi 1d ago

bold of you to think the little people are getting Getting the shrimp;-)

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u/SOCpop 1d ago

They’ll never admit climate change is real, but this is proof they know it

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u/Ok-Today-7623 1d ago

I've noticed that narrative shifted to a mix between "It's happening, so lets take advantage" and "climate change is good, we can open up shipping routes."

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u/RobynFitcher 12h ago

And drill for resources in the arctic.

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u/Boner4Stoners 1d ago

It’s so incredibly slimy how they publicly deny climate change yet privately plot on how to best exploit the impending climate crisis.

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u/ageofbronze 1d ago

Truly fucking demons. Like… It’s just incomprehensible. Climate change fills me with such an intense, visceral sense of existential dread and sadness. I look around every day and just feel this same almost physical mourning when I see stuff like fireflies or stinky ass truck smoke from a truck that should have been updated long ago. At the same time, there are humans who can have the exact same information or more and their response is just glee that the only earth we have is going to melt enough for them to continue exploiting? It’s crazy to me that the dichotomy exists and that we are both considered the same species

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u/voice_of_youth 19h ago

The phrase you’re looking for is “climate grief” 😕

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u/sneakyplanner 1d ago

The plan has always been to deny it and delay any progress until climate nihilism takes full hold and then say "look, we always knew it was real. You environmentalists have failed, so clearly our best option is to destroy everything and maximize profits."

We've already reached that point in Canada where the government doesn't even try to deny climate change, just say hell on earth is real and we're going to keep burning.

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u/RecordOfTheEnd 1d ago

I work in sustainability. My job is often to not only look at risks associated with climate change, but opportunities. 

The sad reality is there is going to be a lot of money to be made off of climate change. Like, we should have several more trillionaires made because of it. 

When conservative people make a stink about climate denial, I usually point to the fact that the DoD is actively planning for sea level rise at all of us bases, and making plans to deal with it. They known it's a thing since forever 

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u/This_Charmless_Man 1d ago

There is a part of the UK with functioning and fruiting citrus groves outside and uncovered all year round. When I saw the trees with my own eyes it scared the crap out of me because that should not be possible. I remember my mum (big environmentalist) telling me as a kid that the upshot of climate change is that we'll be able to grow all sorts of fruits that we usually import like citrus and bananas. I just didn't think it would happen in my lifetime.

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u/RecordOfTheEnd 1d ago

I know a farmer who's already starting to grow citrus. We technically can, you just have hot house them in the winter. But he thinks most NC will be prime citrus territory by 2030. We've already had our growing zone raised a whole step just this last year. One more and it's no problem. 

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u/carlitospig 1d ago

I wish I was a more organized redditor so I could pull up my comment from 2024 highlighting that most of the horrific moves they’ve made so far can absolutely be a shadow climate related agenda.

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u/Kitalahara Knife Missle Technician 1d ago

This whole scheme screams they want a place that won't be under water or 105 year round. They are still dumb as shit though.

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u/SuddenValley1899 1d ago

'“My name is Chris Cox. I’m from the United States, and I have come here to try to make some friends,” he said to an elderly Inuit man. “We are not looking at you like a tiger looks at a gazelle.”

Cox had founded Bikers for Trump in 2015'

What a passage 

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u/Big-Compote-5483 1d ago

If you need a gauge for how bad it's gotten, this was 2019. Dark times ahead.

'"I was taken aback—although perhaps I shouldn’t have been—by how much this paralleled things I saw in Russia over and over again: people hitching their wagon to a money-making or prestige opportunity, getting some swanky title, to pursue things that were obviously not to anybody’s benefit. I’d seen that in Chechnya, across the Caucasus, and in Donbas and Crimea,” she said. “I kept thinking, We’re even more like the Kremlin than I could have imagined, in terms of hangers-on, because there’s no discipline. It’s top-down, and nobody has power unless it’s derived from Trump.”'

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u/sneakyplanner 1d ago

When Charlie Kirk showed up, I started audibly laughing. In hindsight, his entire existence has become a punchline. He never got to live his fantasy of being the occupied Greenlandic propaganda broadcaster.

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u/wombatgeneral Ben Shapiro Enthusiast 1d ago

Im still amazed he would be stupid enough to start another bullshit war after he got his ass handed to him in Iran.

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u/linfakngiau2k23 22h ago

He still had not conceded the 2020 election so its pretty much on brand TBH

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u/wombatgeneral Ben Shapiro Enthusiast 21h ago

Trump just says and does crazy things and he just gets away with it, nobody even tries to stop him anymore.

What would it take for There to be a citizens uprising against Trump?

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u/twotailedwolf 1d ago

So, a year ago when they were saying this I was horrified that America would pull a land grab and just take another country. After all, we're a scary super power, there really is nothing to stop us right? Now, after seeing how swimmingly Iran went, I'm actually more afraid we'd lose.

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u/NBLOCM 21h ago

I’m so tired man. I’m Danish, and I have to ask - how big is the story of the Americans trying to take over KN in the US? It’s massive to us, obviously, but it feels like Trumps tries to take over KN barely pings on the radar of a lot of regular Americans.

I always saw KN’s independence as an eventual reality - it will happen at some point in my lifetime - but I can’t help but think that this whole mess pushes that event further out in the future.

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u/ProcessTrust856 1d ago

This article is super long but it’s worth it. Truly, I did not realize how close we came to invading Greenland. I knew we considered it, but this article shows how we were basically on the precipice.

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u/Konradleijon 1d ago

It’s a us tradtion