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.”

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    Bro your own administration is undermining itself. Thats what happens when you stack the deck with rapists, thieves and drug addicts.

    We are on fire and the ones charged with extinguishing it are too busy blaming the people outside yelling “FIRE!”

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    This absolute imbecilic Russian operative has been using a single-word password, “shraddha” for her devices for years… And now Russia has their spy in the central seat overseeing all intelligence assets in the USA. Fucking absurd.

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        No, she’s an elected official. Deep State was always just a reference to the bureaucrats that kept the government running, with institutional knowledge, regardless of which political appointee was assigned as the head of the agency. It was always a positive term.

        It was only recently that Republicans coopted the term to paint them as some shadowy cabal group running the government behind the scenes to some nefarious ends

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          She left her elected position in 2021 and was nominated by Trump to her current role.

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        Maybe deep state means anyone that actually knows what they’re doing. Like how woke now means anyone with empathy.

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          I think I’ll let them have the word woke because it was practically meaningless anyway. They’re the “woke right” with their policing of speech, their attempts to rewrite history, etc, etc etc.

          Edit: they do everything they accused the “woke left” of but for real… I saw they were even getting concerts cancelled because the performer wasn’t supportive of the Israeli genocide

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            Woke is understanding African American history. It’s not practically meaningless. The far right just uses it as a boogeyman, and none of them know what it means.

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              I know what it meant, but it’s been slopped up worse than “fake news”. The right wingers wrapped it up with cancel culture and made it into a fake ass ideology called wokeism.

              Now they’re doing all of the shit they claimed wokeism was doing and then some. I give them the label woke right because their charictature of “woke” now describes them accurately, and they also hate the label.

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      If the deep state that these losers have referred to for decades was even a little bit real, we wouldn’t even be close to the situation we are in now.

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    Greenlanders: you should really invite a division or 5 of Danish forces (maybe a joint EU mission? Get France and Germany and Poland and Sweden in there, and tell the UK they can come too) for extended exercise and potentially semi-permanent basing arrangements.

    As an American: our government is clearly becoming an existential threat to you. I hate it. I am begging you to act accordingly.

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      As a non-American: your government is clearly becoming an existential threat to us. We hate it. I am begging you to act accordingly.

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        Would that we could. “We the People” are the enemy of the State and they treat us accordingly. Of course, the easiest type of enemy to defeat is one that does not know they are your enemy, and they spent billions of dollars over decades to ruin our education systems and shove propaganda in our faces to ensure that we never find out that we were their enemy all along.

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        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.

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          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.

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

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                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.

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    as well as an examination of local attitudes regarding “American resource extraction."

    Ah yes, the actual reason “we need Greenland for national security.” Feeding corporations. Fucking scum…

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    How the fuck are you supposed to counter-spy against a regime this socially impaired and stupid? Do you have to run your op as a Xtian vegetable cartoon or do you just hang out with them while they’re executing dogs in the gravel pit?

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      Reminds me of the old quote

      A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine.

      But even stupider

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      Sometimes if they’re feeling like they want to follow the laws of the land and spy on themselves, they ask other aligned countries to spy on them in exchange for the US spying on them and then they exchange details.

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        That means you have no friends

        Friends don’t spy on friends. Friends respect their friend’s right to privacy

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          To stretch a metaphor: Spying on friendly nations is assumed by everyone, and is a huge part of why we’re still friends. If you can be sure your friends are in fact your friends, doesn’t that mean your friendship will be stronger? Especially if your friends have nuclear weapons.

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    What the fuck are we spying on? You could probably just have a nice lunch with every person in Greenland for less money than it’ll cost to replace that jet that fell off the air craft carrier the other day. And that was the second jet.

    Plus, we have a whole Alaska. We’re not going to lack access to the Northwest Passage. (NB: this is assuming there’s any logic at all. I have no idea why Trump is obsessed with Greenland. It’s probably because the Mercator projection makes it look bigger than it is and his assistants show him maps in the daily briefing or whatever.)

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      If I had to guess, there are probably some valuable natural resources under the ice that are going to become more accessible with global warming. It’s a resource grab. Same thing as trying to get Ukraine’s minerals.

      Edit: Yep I should have searched before I replied.

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        Yeah. I knew it had to deal with something like that. Thought maybe it was just for the land (same with Canada) once Florida and the like go underwater, but it’s about destruction for more wealth… as always.

        Actually, probably both… though one has more immediate results.

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      Communications. The US IC’s goal is to spy on everyone.

      This was made clear by the top secret documents from the whistleblowing in 2013.

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    I’m guessing these journalists will be arrested until they reveal their sources for the leak. Since that is a thing the DOJ is okay with.

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    Agent X7kR report. Day one Amaalik met Aqqaluk next to the dock. Had a discussion about the newly installed stoplight and the importance of being the first town with one. They were added to the technology inclined surveillance list. Hans had påleg toast.

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      påleg

      Pålægschokolade (“chocolate to put on bread”) are thin slices of chocolate (or vekao) that are used as a topping (in Danish, pålæg) on bread, such as rugbrød or white bread, similar to how chocolate spread is used in many countries. It is common in Denmark.

      I see why they’re spying