Greenland
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Yep. Good point. I'm sure President Trump would never, EVER do anything that even hints at failure to respect and abide by international law.
I think it depends on what the ship contains. Maybe it is full of illegal aliens that no one else wants, and Trump thinks they will become permanent residents and vote to join the US.
Danish soldiers flown to Greenland in January were prepared to blow up key airport runways over fears that US President Donald Trump could invade the Arctic island, Denmark's public broadcaster DR says.
Citing sources in the Danish government and military, and also among European allies, DR says blood supplies were also brought in to treat the wounded in the event of fighting.
The Financial Times newspaper said two European officials later confirmed the report. The Danish defence ministry told the BBC it "has no comment".
A senior Danish military official, speaking anonymously, told the BBC "only a limited number of people would have been aware of the operation for security reasons".
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Citing sources in the Danish government and military, and also among European allies, DR says blood supplies were also brought in to treat the wounded in the event of fighting.
The Financial Times newspaper said two European officials later confirmed the report. The Danish defence ministry told the BBC it "has no comment".
A senior Danish military official, speaking anonymously, told the BBC "only a limited number of people would have been aware of the operation for security reasons".
Denmark planned to blow up Greenland runways if US invaded, reports say — BBC News
Denmark's public broadcaster reports that the US operation to seize Venezuela's leader sparked fears it would act against Greenland.
Greenland is a major source of fentanyl.Danish soldiers flown to Greenland in January were prepared to blow up key airport runways over fears that US President Donald Trump could invade the Arctic island, Denmark's public broadcaster DR says.
Citing sources in the Danish government and military, and also among European allies, DR says blood supplies were also brought in to treat the wounded in the event of fighting.
The Financial Times newspaper said two European officials later confirmed the report. The Danish defence ministry told the BBC it "has no comment".
A senior Danish military official, speaking anonymously, told the BBC "only a limited number of people would have been aware of the operation for security reasons".
Denmark planned to blow up Greenland runways if US invaded, reports say — BBC News
Denmark's public broadcaster reports that the US operation to seize Venezuela's leader sparked fears it would act against Greenland.
Trump’s quest for a ‘Greater North America’ is in full swing
What Trump has recognised is that one way to retain hemispheric hegemony is to re-establish control of strategic chokepoints.
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The “Shield of the Americas (plural)” that’s mentioned in the Donroe Doctrine thread. Have to wait and see if Hegseth starts bragging about blowing up boats around Greenland.Greenland is a major source of fentanyl.
Trump’s quest for a ‘Greater North America’ is in full swing
What Trump has recognised is that one way to retain hemispheric hegemony is to re-establish control of strategic chokepoints.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was announced as it’s Envoy on March 7th…by Marco Rubio.
This entity is just two weeks old and has been background behind other news.
It’s your link, about the gathering that took place at one of Trumps golf courses.
Unless I’ve got my wires crossed, the event actually took place on Saturday March 7th, & it was the unveiling of the “Shield of the Americas” with only
“Don’t want to be invaded and face a regime change? Join the club!!”
Allegedly. Shield is about control of…what? The eastern hemisphere? You think the 17 countries with “right” leaning governments don’t have drug issues?
And yet Greenland has nothing to do with drugs...
Is Cuba a sizable drug threat?
Is it? Apparently there are drugs in Cuba along with poverty, but it is enforced so tightly that I can’t see many risking being even remotely associated with narcotics in that society because they have no sense of humour for it whatsoever. Enforcement beyond beyond in our reference of comparison. Does it exist? I’m sure it does. Is it “sizeable?” I’m sure it’s not.
I think the drugs thing (being anti drugs) for the Western hemisphere in this political situation is just a unifying concept. It’s a way to have a common enemy, & any government or sovereign nation can potentially be that common enemy. Any of them can be demonized when required depending on the political demands and the way the wind is blowing.
The hell it doesn't. Greenland is a major link in drug shipping between Hither and Yon!
Trump envoy arrives for Greenland visit
Visit comes after international tension over U.S. president's repeated claims to the territory
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Published May 17, 2026 • 1 minute read
U.S. President Donald Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump has in the past threatened to seize Greenland. Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI /AFP
COPENHAGEN — U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Greenland landed in Nuuk on Sunday for a visit of several days to the autonomous Danish territory, local media reported.
Governor of Louisiana Jeff Landry arrived for his first visit in the role and is due to take part in an economic forum in the Greenlandic capital on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Organized by the employers organization Gronlands Erhverv, the Future Greenland event will bring together investors, political and business leaders to try to encourage investment there.
Landry’s visit comes after international tension over Trump’s repeated claims to the territory, which sparked alarm not just in Greenland and Denmark but across western Europe.
Landry arrived accompanied by around 10 other people and drove off in a convoy of five cars, the local daily Sermitsiaq reported.
U.S. ambassador to arrive Monday
The U.S. ambassador to Denmark is due to fly in to Greenland on Monday.
“Together, they will meet with a wide range of Greenlanders to listen and learn with a goal of expanding economic opportunities, building people-to-people ties, and increasing understanding between the United States and Greenland,” said a U.S. embassy statement sent to AFP.
Trump appointed Landry to the post on Dec. 22.
In January, Trump backed down from his repeated threats to seize Greenland, after which Copenhagen and Nuuk held a first meeting in Washington.
Trump has repeatedly argued the U.S. needs to control Greenland because of national security concerns, claiming that if the U.S. does not take the Arctic island then it would fall into the hands of China or Russia.
Last Tuesday, Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said talks between the territory, Denmark, and the United States had yet to produce an agreement, even if there had been progress.
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Visit comes after international tension over U.S. president's repeated claims to the territory
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Published May 17, 2026 • 1 minute read
U.S. President Donald Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump has in the past threatened to seize Greenland. Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI /AFP
COPENHAGEN — U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Greenland landed in Nuuk on Sunday for a visit of several days to the autonomous Danish territory, local media reported.
Governor of Louisiana Jeff Landry arrived for his first visit in the role and is due to take part in an economic forum in the Greenlandic capital on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Organized by the employers organization Gronlands Erhverv, the Future Greenland event will bring together investors, political and business leaders to try to encourage investment there.
Landry’s visit comes after international tension over Trump’s repeated claims to the territory, which sparked alarm not just in Greenland and Denmark but across western Europe.
Landry arrived accompanied by around 10 other people and drove off in a convoy of five cars, the local daily Sermitsiaq reported.
U.S. ambassador to arrive Monday
The U.S. ambassador to Denmark is due to fly in to Greenland on Monday.
“Together, they will meet with a wide range of Greenlanders to listen and learn with a goal of expanding economic opportunities, building people-to-people ties, and increasing understanding between the United States and Greenland,” said a U.S. embassy statement sent to AFP.
Trump appointed Landry to the post on Dec. 22.
In January, Trump backed down from his repeated threats to seize Greenland, after which Copenhagen and Nuuk held a first meeting in Washington.
Trump has repeatedly argued the U.S. needs to control Greenland because of national security concerns, claiming that if the U.S. does not take the Arctic island then it would fall into the hands of China or Russia.
Last Tuesday, Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said talks between the territory, Denmark, and the United States had yet to produce an agreement, even if there had been progress.
Trump envoy arrives for Greenland visit
U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy to Greenland landed in Nuuk on Sunday for a visit of several days. Read on.
UK launches hi-tech mission to study Greenland ice melt
But because of the hazardous environment, where blocks of ice "calve" or fall off unpredictably, scientists have struggled to study the melt up close.
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Anna Malpas
Published Jul 16, 2026 • 3 minute read
The RRS Sir David Attenborough, moored at port in Harwich, eastern England. Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS /AFP
Harwich (United Kingdom) (AFP) — A team of international scientists sets sail Thursday from Britain for Greenland to study its rapidly melting ice using drones, mini-submarines and autonomous swimming robots.
Greenland’s ice sheet, made up of millions of cubic kilometres of freshwater, is melting rapidly due to global warming, and scientists believe it could disrupt key Atlantic currents that control the world’s weather.
But because of the hazardous environment, where blocks of ice “calve” or fall off unpredictably, scientists have struggled to study the melt up close.
The RRS Sir David Attenborough polar research ship, named after the famed British naturalist and television presenter, was leaving southeastern Harwich with dozens of international scientists on board.
The £20-million ($27-million) project, led by the British Antarctic Survey, is funded by the UK government.
For around five weeks, the scientists will sail in fjords that fringe southeast Greenland, studying glaciers from all angles.
They will fly drones with high-resolution cameras and lower autonomous robots that can dive hundreds of metres to the seabed and screw themselves to the ice wall.
“Marine robots can go right up against the ice… where people cannot go because it would be completely unsafe for them,” said project leader Kelly Hogan, a marine geophysicist.
The team wants to capture granular details because scientists still “don’t really understand how the ocean water melts the ice”, said British marine physicist Mark Inall.
Scientists see signs that huge volumes of melting Greenland ice are affecting the powerful currents that move hot and cold water around the Atlantic and help to regulate the climate.
The current UK climate change model for the next century forecasts disruption of one such current, the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre, within decades, affecting regional fisheries and marine life.
“Our best models at the moment say these changes could happen as early as the 2040s,” said Hogan, a scientist at the British Antarctic Survey.
But she told AFP these simulated scenarios are known to have inaccuracies and the expedition aims to “get the melting Greenland ice sheet really well represented in the models”.
“We are directly feeding into the UK’s best model for climate prediction, so I think we can make a real difference to that,” she said.
An ocean scientist who specializes in modelling data, Paul Holland, also from the British Antarctic Survey, will be on board to work directly with the findings, as the “problem is so urgent”.
“We don’t have time to just wait for scientists to do all of this and then wait for the climate modelling centres to catch up,” he said.
– ‘Huge uncertainty’ –
Holland cited the potential role of the melting Greenland ice on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a vast ocean current system that functions as a kind of conveyor belt, regulating the global transfer of heat from the tropics into the northern hemisphere.
Scientists broadly agree the AMOC is weakening because of accelerating Greenland melt-off, but debate persists over how fast this is happening and whether the system could collapse this century.
A shutdown would have dire consequences, including much harsher winters in northern Europe and higher sea levels around the North Atlantic.
For Holland, there is “huge uncertainty”, but “we know for sure that increasing greenhouse gases is making these worse outcomes more likely”.
“We can still make a difference in terms of the precise impacts and the exact likelihood of AMOC shutdown,” he said.
Some scientists have suggested the AMOC’s collapse is already inevitable, but “that is not at the moment the consensus view,” said Inall.
“It seems like the AMOC is slowing down, and that’s probably going to continue,” US glaciologist Erin Pettit told AFP.
“But exactly how much impact (this) will have is part of what we’re hoping to figure out.”
torontosun.com
But because of the hazardous environment, where blocks of ice "calve" or fall off unpredictably, scientists have struggled to study the melt up close.
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Anna Malpas
Published Jul 16, 2026 • 3 minute read
The RRS Sir David Attenborough, moored at port in Harwich, eastern England. Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS /AFP
Harwich (United Kingdom) (AFP) — A team of international scientists sets sail Thursday from Britain for Greenland to study its rapidly melting ice using drones, mini-submarines and autonomous swimming robots.
Greenland’s ice sheet, made up of millions of cubic kilometres of freshwater, is melting rapidly due to global warming, and scientists believe it could disrupt key Atlantic currents that control the world’s weather.
But because of the hazardous environment, where blocks of ice “calve” or fall off unpredictably, scientists have struggled to study the melt up close.
The RRS Sir David Attenborough polar research ship, named after the famed British naturalist and television presenter, was leaving southeastern Harwich with dozens of international scientists on board.
The £20-million ($27-million) project, led by the British Antarctic Survey, is funded by the UK government.
For around five weeks, the scientists will sail in fjords that fringe southeast Greenland, studying glaciers from all angles.
They will fly drones with high-resolution cameras and lower autonomous robots that can dive hundreds of metres to the seabed and screw themselves to the ice wall.
“Marine robots can go right up against the ice… where people cannot go because it would be completely unsafe for them,” said project leader Kelly Hogan, a marine geophysicist.
The team wants to capture granular details because scientists still “don’t really understand how the ocean water melts the ice”, said British marine physicist Mark Inall.
Scientists see signs that huge volumes of melting Greenland ice are affecting the powerful currents that move hot and cold water around the Atlantic and help to regulate the climate.
The current UK climate change model for the next century forecasts disruption of one such current, the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre, within decades, affecting regional fisheries and marine life.
“Our best models at the moment say these changes could happen as early as the 2040s,” said Hogan, a scientist at the British Antarctic Survey.
But she told AFP these simulated scenarios are known to have inaccuracies and the expedition aims to “get the melting Greenland ice sheet really well represented in the models”.
“We are directly feeding into the UK’s best model for climate prediction, so I think we can make a real difference to that,” she said.
An ocean scientist who specializes in modelling data, Paul Holland, also from the British Antarctic Survey, will be on board to work directly with the findings, as the “problem is so urgent”.
“We don’t have time to just wait for scientists to do all of this and then wait for the climate modelling centres to catch up,” he said.
– ‘Huge uncertainty’ –
Holland cited the potential role of the melting Greenland ice on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a vast ocean current system that functions as a kind of conveyor belt, regulating the global transfer of heat from the tropics into the northern hemisphere.
Scientists broadly agree the AMOC is weakening because of accelerating Greenland melt-off, but debate persists over how fast this is happening and whether the system could collapse this century.
A shutdown would have dire consequences, including much harsher winters in northern Europe and higher sea levels around the North Atlantic.
For Holland, there is “huge uncertainty”, but “we know for sure that increasing greenhouse gases is making these worse outcomes more likely”.
“We can still make a difference in terms of the precise impacts and the exact likelihood of AMOC shutdown,” he said.
Some scientists have suggested the AMOC’s collapse is already inevitable, but “that is not at the moment the consensus view,” said Inall.
“It seems like the AMOC is slowing down, and that’s probably going to continue,” US glaciologist Erin Pettit told AFP.
“But exactly how much impact (this) will have is part of what we’re hoping to figure out.”
UK launches hi-tech mission to study Greenland ice melt
A team of international scientists sets sail Thursday from Britain for Greenland to study its rapidly melting ice using drones.