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    Großbritannien werde nicht zulassen, dass die USA ihre Stützpunkte für Angriffe auf Grönland nutzen, sagt John Healey

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    2. consulent-finanziar on

      This sounds less like a dramatic snub and more like a reminder that even close allies draw firm lines around escalation and optics

    3. Top_Statistician4068 on

      Your statement should have been our bases would be busy defending Greenland!

    4. Guilty-Top-7 on

      There’s noting to attack in Greenland. Just a bunch of natives trying to live their lives peacefully. They don’t have a standing army.

    6. crashorbit on

      On the one hand apparently climate change is a hoax. On the other hand Trump wants Greenland so that when the ice is gone he can shovel up the cobalt and lithium.

      Does that make sense to any of you?

    7. AccomplishedAct4667 on

      I dearly hope people stand up to a US bully breaking out right-of-conquest on sovereign territories within the European sphere with no reasonable casus belli.

      The only problem is that I didn’t see anyone standing up to a *Russian* bully breaking out right-of-conquest on sovereign territories within the European sphere with no reasonable casus belli. It does not build faith.

    9. Razkaii on

      I bet trump legit thinks obtaining Greenland is the key to getting Canada. “Look how silly that non-American patch on the map is. They should join us”

    10. Kasta4711bort on

      Exactly how would it work? I understand that Trump can put boots on Greenland. But to incorporate it, would it not require legislation? 

    11. Darvos83 on

      Trump just sees Greenland as a corporation that has assets his corporation (USA) wants. He thinks he needs to take them over before another cooperation (China, Russia) does. He is going to try buy the company from it’s shareholders (citizens) first

    12. bunnnythor on

      If the US moves beyond endless rhetoric about invading and starts taking concrete steps, the entire globe* needs to drop trade sanctions on all US goods and services, including/especially social media.

      *except Taiwan. Taiwan can’t afford to piss off the nation that is most likely to keep them from being invaded. They get a free pass here.

    13. Darkone539 on

      Obviously, kind of insane we have to say it though.

      diego garcia wasn’t used to bomb Iran because they warned they would have to say no.

    14. Elusive_Zergling on

      For anyone wondering who this geezer is, he’s our Secretary of State for Defence, a big cheese here if you will and if he said what is in the headline, then it’s happening.

    15. Kiwi_In_The_Comments on

      „Britain refuses to let US use bases to attack Greenland.“ I can’t believe that is a real sentence in 2026. We are living in a deleted scene from a Pierce Brosnan Bond movie.

      I am 99% convinced Trump only wants it because he uses a Mercator Projection map and thinks it’s the size of Africa. Someone get this man a globe before he tries to annex Antarctica.

    17. macguyver3000 on

      It’s good to see that another country is standing up to Trump. I wish our own democratic leaders would do that.

    18. TheVenetianMask on

      I mean, if the US moves to attack European territory there’s no logic in allowing military bases from them in Europe. Even if we know it’s a scheme from the pro Russia axis, at that point the US has crossed the Rubicon.

    20. nasoo06 on

      If you told me 10 years ago that ‚The UK refusing to let the US invade Greenland‘ would be a real headline, I would have assumed you were hallucinating…

    21. 0theHumanity on

      Uk has first right of refusal to Denmark. They literally have dibs if it were for trade. Trump is jumping a line he didn’t know there was

    22. Weekend_Criminal on

      How dumb does a person have to be to not see that this administration is doing nothing but weakening our country on a global scale every day?

    24. FoundationGreat7072 on

      Well, iceing cold is back on the menu, perhaps for the better as it`s hotter than here. As said earlyer, pick me up, this is gonna get interresting realy fast.

    25. DKDamian on

      It is encouraging to see other countries respond firmly and with conviction.

      It is discouraging to see Americans do nothing

    26. Skwerl87 on

      It’s crazy that the people that support this, are the same people that tried to convince us all that Trump isn’t a rapist

    27. rogozh1n on

      KICK US OUT! America should not have bases in NATO nations at this point. 70% of the nation opposes trump and we need the international community to force Republicans to wake up and do what they know is right.

      I hate that it is everyone else’s problem to fix us, but our power structure and system of government have been usurped by a hateful minority. Remember, trump won the election in ’24 with less than 50% of the vote. Many of them regret their vote now.

      Republicans in Congress mostly want him gone, but they don’t have the courage to do it. Help give them a reason. Embargo us. Stop all trade. We need it.

    28. Street_Random on

      As a Brit, I’d prefer UK bases were used to defend Greenland (or anyone else for that matter) against nazism.

      Especially if the leader of the nazis is a senile sex-offender.

    31. GIK602 on

      Companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc., are interested in building AI data centers in Greenland, so they will likely influence US’s strategy.

    33. shisui1729 on

      This fucker picks a country every day to fight. Venezuela – attack, Greenland – Capture, India – 500% Tariffs, etc., and it’s been only 9 fucking days in 2026.

    36. fijimann on

      They attack NATO we attack back. This is obviously the final line before servitude. It is also our sworn duty even if it doesn’t mean anything to countries without honour.

    37. Cristoff13 on

      Trump is picturing the US flag being raised over Nuuk, with himself as President presiding over the event. He wants this really bad. And he can’t stand it when people say no to him. That’s why he’s being so petulant about this.

      Hopefully soon he switches his attention to something else, before he does something rash like declaring on national TV he’s annexed the island.

    39. stevesmele on

      According to a 2022 book and various news reports, Ronald Lauder, an heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune and a long-time friend and political donor of Donald Trump, floated the idea of the U.S. acquiring Greenland.

      Ronald Lauder is a major Republican donor and has given substantial financial support to pro-Trump groups. In 2020, some Estée Lauder employees petitioned for his removal from the company’s board due to his political ties.

      Trump became fixated on the idea, viewing it from a real estate perspective and citing the island’s map size and potential resources as strategic assets. His administration reportedly conducted internal studies on the feasibility of a purchase or lease, and Trump even suggested trading Puerto Rico for Greenland.

      Reports in late 2024 and early 2025 indicate that Ronald Lauder has been quietly investing in Greenlandic companies, including a water bank and rare-earth mineral ventures, further intensifying scrutiny of his involvement.

      We know Trump lies every time he opens his mouth. His hoopla about the Russians and the Chinese is probably a red herring because everything he does is about him, and money.

      What a huge asshole he is, as are his sycophants.

    40. PotatoNukeMk1 on

      >Britain won’t let US…

      They do it anyway. Just wait for it… or do what is the right thing and tell them to fuck off NOW

    41. Randomcommentor1972 on

      Technically shouldn’t Britain be defending Greenland if it gets attacked?

    43. coffeetacocat on

      Thank you, please keep us safely boxed in untill we can properly correct these issues in the midterms.

    44. Harpalyce on

      The splitting up of the world into three great super-states was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century. With the absorption of Europe by Russia and of the British Empire by the United States, two of the three existing powers, Eurasia and Oceania, were already effectively in being.

      – 1984 (Part 2. Ch 9.) By George Orwell

    45. Capital_Historian685 on

      But the US can just use its bases in Greenland to attack Greenland. The 1951 Denmark-US Defense Agreement allows the US to have an unlimited number of troops in Greenland, so if the US wants to use assets from the UK, the US can just transport them to Greenland, and use them from there. Problem solved!

    46. PrimeHemalurgist on

      Uh, I’d hope not. In fact, I’d hope the entire EU and rest of NATO would do A LOT more than “not let us use their bases.” These monsters need to be stopped.

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