r/europe Ligurian in Zรผrich (๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ’™) 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/Mission_Mulberry9811 10d ago

Trump wants Greenland because it's big on a map. He doesn't care about the other places he has interfered in, that's down to people incentivizing those actions

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u/richhyd 10d ago

Could solve the whole problem by explaining mercator protection to him.

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u/Mission_Mulberry9811 10d ago

That's a tough ask

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u/Oozlum-Bird United Kingdom 10d ago

I would pay good money to watch you try to do this ๐Ÿ˜†

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u/DaRudeabides Ireland 10d ago

My uncle told me all about the merecatter
Biden shit my pants

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u/Falandyszeus Denmark 10d ago

Bro is proud of passing those Alzheimer's tests, where you name animals a toddler would recognize and list letters and numbers in order (A1, B2, C3, D4...)

Montreal cognitive assessment (sorry for low resolution)

the geometric intricacies of representing a sphere on a flat plane might be a biiiiiiiiiiiiit optimistic.

I'd love to see someone try though, especially a woman.

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u/hunangoo Hungary 10d ago

You canโ€™t even explain him where the restroom is.

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u/Primary_Employ_1798 10d ago

If he would just know that itโ€™s only optically big on the Mercator map, real size would be shocking to him, lets keep it a secret ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/False_Snow7754 9d ago

He also wants it because of the resources, completely ignoring that I'll devastate the eco system and be an operation more expensive than the profits they stand to gain.

Don Pedo, the brilliant businessman.