It is so profoundly strange to experience my country, Denmark, being threatened by The United States — especially when you think of how much Americans and Danes have in common.

Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁

@randahl

Not to mention Denmark responded to NATO’s Article 5 after the US was attacked on 9/11 and sent troops to Afghanistan.

Sablebadger

@randahl we (citizens of the US) don't get it either.

el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

@randahl
please don't remind the USA for how long Denmark fought Germany in WW2, or it will reinforce their resolution.

Ole Wolf

@randahl Living in the US for a few years taught me that Denmark and the US entertain vastly different worldviews.

Randahl Fink

@elCelio please don't forget that 85,000 Danish resistance fighters fought the Nazis for 5 long years.

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@randahl 95% of American people have no issues with either Denmark or Greenland.

This is strictly another case of the Trump administration being alone in promoting this idea. It's bullying:

a.) Goading: It makes US domestic opposition feel like they have no influence over public policy and are powerless.

b.) Robbery: It involves theft of minerals (latest robber-baron pet hobby) and brazen violation of sovereignty

c.) Terrorism: It introduces the threat of withdrawing the USA from NATO.

DJ [REDACTED] 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

@randahl In Denmark there is likely not a significant percentage of the population that believes chocolate milk comes from brown cows. In the US, on the other hand...

Sablebadger

@dcdeejay @randahl there is a significant education problem in our country. The powers that be want it that way, because ignorant groups are easier to control with fear. I hate it.

Rasmus Lindegaard

@randahl @elCelio tbf i think most Danes are ashamed of that particular part of ww2, the shortness of the fight. But when that's said, please consider: we managed to save 95% of the Danish Jews from the Holocaust, and as Randahl stated: just because our politicians waved the white flag very quickly did not mean the Nazis did not have a lot of problems with the populace sabotaging them as often as they could manage.

Rasmus Lindegaard

@randahl @elCelio my father's father was a young boy then; the Nazis had barn to which they drove confiscated hay in horse drawn wagons.

The boys made sport of slipping unto the loads, and striking a match, just to roll off before the drivers noticed the arsen.

JimTheWhyGuy ❌👑

@randahl Most Americans would rather forget that the Nazis held a huge rally in NY Madison Square Garden in 1939, and that there were several Nazi-oriented summer youth camps in Wisconsin - actually, across several states! - before we joined WW2.

zane25

@randahl

America has gone mad. We have too many crazy and off people. Shameful people.

Heidi Li Feldman

@randahl It is ridiculous and shameful. As a citizen of the U.S., I am appalled and more sorry than I can say. @mastodonmigration

Djembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪

@randahl
I abhor what my country has become. I also believe that many USAn veterans would volunteer to fight for Denmark, if it came to that, because I am not alone in my abhorrence.
#StandWithEurope

@iveyline

@randahl Trumps threats are a disaster. What an idiot of a man.

Randahl Fink

@allanb that seems very accurate.

Frans de Graaf

@randahl The world has changed since the twentieth century. Europe now faces a new geopolitical reality.

Where the transatlantic bond was once the cornerstone of security and stability, we now see the United States itself struggling with internal polarisation and unpredictable foreign policy.

Europe, with over 450 million inhabitants and one of the largest economies in the world, is a global player and must now shape its future as an independent global force.

Randahl Fink

@djembro Europe should seriously hire 100 US veterans and place them in Nuuk the next 6 months.

KanaMauna

@randahl

It is profoundly strange as an American to experience this too.

Nömenlōony

@randahl it's absolutely blowing my mind that they would even try this. It's an attack on the EU and it's a direct call to war. Trump really is deranged.