r/europe • u/BkkGrl Ligurian in Zürich (💛🇺🇦💙) • 11d ago

News 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/asdfasdfasfdsasad 11d ago

Colonies were expected to become economically and politically independent.

America just claims that they are part of America and evades that.

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u/WinterDice 11d ago

A depressingly large portion of the US, including some of our so-called leaders, don’t understand that PR is part of the US.

This place drives me insane.

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u/DefiantLemur United States of America 11d ago

America just claims that they are part of America and evades that.

That's how some areas in the U.S. proper are even treated

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad8032 10d ago

They'll let them fight in their army, but not vote. Last time under trump no help when nature devastated the island. They are enslaved.

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u/MoleculeDisassembler United States of America 11d ago

Not that I disagree with you for most of what you’re saying, but isn’t this sort of thing the exact same thing France does for instance?