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After Venezuela, Trump’s sights are set on Greenland

Hot on the heels of Donald Trump’s illegal invasion of Venezuela and capture of president Maduro, the US president is now reportedly eyeing up Greenland. Actually, it’s not just Greenland, is it? Here’s a running total of the countries that Trump has threatened just this year:

It won’t stop with Venezuela – as Greenland may be next

Of course, this is far from the first time that the US dictator has threatened Greenland. However, the shock invasion of Venezuela has made the prospect of annexation far more real:

For his part, Trump has ramped up threats against Greenland with claims that the US needs to claim the territory “for defense”:

The “guardrails” have been gone for a long time now – I don’t know where you’ve been looking:

Apparently, Greenland is “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships”. The obvious solution, of course, is to surround it with even more American warships:

It’s not about military strategy

If anyone cares to ask Denmark – of which Greenland is an autonomous territory – they’ve made it absolutely clear that they don’t want to be annexed by the US:

Of course, Trump isn’t asking – and he’s not threatening to buy Greenland, either:

It “makes absolutely no sense” to talk about the US ‘needing’ to invade Greenland on a military-strategic level because this is not about military strategy. Just like Trump invaded Venezuela for its oil, he’ll invade Greenland for its rare earth minerals:

While we’re on the subject, a lot of commenters on social media picked up on far-right political advisor Katie Miller’s inflammatory image of Greenland overlaid with the US flag:

Cowardice in the face of tyranny

Hell, even the Lib Dems’ Ed Davie picked up on it. He also slipped in a swipe at Starmer’s utter cowardice in refusing to condemn Trump’s attack on Venezuela:

And, speaking of the utter cowardice of Labour politicians in the face of US empire-building, MP Mike Tapp couldn’t even bring himself to state that America shouldn’t invade Greenland:

Genuinely pathetic, even for a party where disappointment has become the norm. Speaking of which, Owen Jones pointed out the blatant hypocrisy of Europe’s “military alliance” with a country that flouts international law:

The fact that Greenland is a territory of Denmark does not matter. Denmark’s status as a NATO member does not matter. The will of the people of Greenland does not matter.

As long as Trump is permitted to do whatever he pleases, both within and without US borders, he will continue to do so. And, as Starmer and the cowards in the UK’s parliament have so succinctly demonstrated, Trumps ‘allies’ are too terrified of him to utter so much as a word of condemnation.

Featured image via the Canary

By The Canary

This post was originally published on Canary.