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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    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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    Undermine the President by politicizing? Isn’t the president’s job to be political and to do politics? Isn’t the dumb reason he wants Greenland political? I hate these retards.

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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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    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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              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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        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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    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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    Iron Sky is some real life wkuk history channel type bullshit that’s happening right now but it’s the Uwe Boll version.

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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 whistleblowing in 2013.

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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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    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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    politicizing

    You work in politics and are openly discussing invading an ally to expand your colonial empire. By it’s very nature this news is politics and that’s your fuckin’ fault.