Vice President JD Vance traveled to Greenland to promote President Donald Trump’s claim that America has to have the Danish territory—and that Greenlanders would be more secure under U.S. protection.President Trump “has repeatedly suggested the U.S. should take over Greenland ‘one way or the another...
I still want to know about how a member of leadership from a foreign country could visit a host country, insult the host, attempt to make a propaganda film to support the forced annexation of that country, and repeatedly state their intentions to take the country by force if necessary and not have it be considered a declaration of war.
Seriously, if this were literally any other time in human history or any other country involved, bombs would have been dropping by now.
Declarations of war are formal documents delivered by a foreign minister to an ambassador and are legally binding.
Some prat running their mouth, even if they’re a senior governmental official, has never been a legal declaration of war.
You seriously think that any other world leader in history wouldn’t consider what Vance did a declaration of war because he didn’t file the right paperwork?
At the very, very least, he would have been militarily escorted out of the country and had his base seized.
You have a very melodramatic impression of diplomacy. War is very expensive.
It’s still a blatant attack on their sovereignty, whether you want to call it an “act of war,” or not. Denmark should be, at the very least, shoring up defenses. I would believe Trump when he says he needs to do this.
Denmark is currently investing heavily in seamines, ships to handle the seamines and underwater surveillance. Unfortunately I fear it’s too little too late, but only time will tell I suppose.
No matter what, the best bet is to make the invasion so costly it won’t be worth it for the US.
My only (possibly last?) hope is that, if he begins some kind of invasion, that it’s over whatever line that our military leaders have drawn in the sand in terms of obeying unlawful orders, and they refuse.
I’m not optimistic.
Which is why it’s been waged almost inconstantly for the entire history of the human race?
You seem to be purposely missing the point of the other poster when they say declaration of war and probably meaning an act of war
Yes!
I feel it comes down to money as always. The modern world works on markets, not nationalism.
It’s why these ideas get floated around without consequence. Business just ignores the ideas it till it impacts the bottom line. Then they make whatever changes are best for them, very seldom are the changes made for principles or morals.
The US knows this. They attack Canada without declaring war to convince businesses to invest in the US instead of Canada. It works for the most part, tragically.
“Everybody hated the Nazis but not enough had a problem doing business with them though.”
Edit: Canada will be alright. We’re bringing down interprovincial trade batriers. It’ll help gets projects done all across the country. Out word is gold as well. We keep our promises, unlike the US who don’t realise how destructive breaking all their agreements really is. It makes sense to invest in Canada. We just have to show that to the rest of the world.