The U.S. is increasing its espionage in Greenland as part of Donald Trump’s campaign to take control of the island.

Donald Trump’s quest to conquer Greenland is becoming increasingly serious.

The intelligence community directed intelligence agency chiefs to conduct a spy campaign on the Denmark-controlled island territory last week, issuing a “collection emphasis message” for information pertaining to Greenland’s independence movement, as well as an examination of local attitudes regarding “American resource extraction,” reported The Wall Street Journal. It also tasked agencies to identify individuals living in Greenland and Denmark who support the Trump administration’s goals for the island.

Gabbard was not happy to hear that the news of the initiative had gotten out. “The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine the President by politicizing and leaking classified information,” Gabbard told the Journal in a statement. “They are breaking the law and undermining our nation’s security and democracy.”

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      What…?

      The EU and other NATO countries would never attack the US, unless it was in retaliation over the US attacking them first - and even then, it’d have to be a pretty insane situation for the EU to go further than conducting an area-denial strategy on and around their territory. The one instance I could see this being done is in response to the US outright nuking major EU cities; as insane as things are, I really don’t think that’s even a remote possibility at this point.

      • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        If the US strikes any NATO member, it’s an automatic declaration of war against the aggressor state, which in this case would be the US, under Article 5 of the NATO treaty.

        If it doesn’t result in an automatic declaration, that means NATO has failed, and isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. It’s a mutual defense treaty.

          • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            24 hours ago

            The DOGE kids got access to a network that deals with our nuclear weapons. One of them goes by the handle “Bigballs” online.

            • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              23 hours ago

              I know that. But I have serious difficulty believing that the entire chain of command would listen to that dipshit if he decided to tweet at Rammstein “lmao nuke Berlin” or something like that. None of our triad is set up to have 0-100 button-press nuke launches executed by a single person, and that’s by design.