BAR: Racist, Imperialist U.S. Vassal Denmark Now Cries Over Greenland
Posted by sashimi on January 21, 2026, 11:19 pm
Margaret Kimberley, 21 Jan 2026
Lede: Donald Trump and other U.S. presidents are gangsters who will sometimes steal from their own crew. The Greenland heist is but the latest example, as the Denmark colonizers cry that they were robbed after assisting the head criminal in charge.
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Donald Trump is committed to making his dream of claiming Greenland, a colony of Denmark, as a United States territory. Trump is moving full speed ahead despite the fact that many indigenous Greenlanders want to be independent of Denmark and that Denmark opposes this seizure. There is no domestic or international law that allows this forced expropriation to take place, but no matter. The United States has eviscerated international law for years and usually with the help of NATO allies like Denmark.
Trump claims that Russia and China will snatch Greenland if the U.S. doesn't, despite the fact that neither country has shown such an interest. Trump wants Greenland because billionaires want it too. During the first Trump administration in 2018, "... a prominent businessman [Ronald Lauder] he knew had suggested that the U.S. buy Greenland ..." Lauder is not alone in coveting that enormous Arctic island. Tech billionaires Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and others plan to use Greenland as a source of rare earth minerals and as the site for dystopian "freedom cities" which would operate outside of law and regulation.
The Kingdom of Denmark is unhappy, to say the least, as are other European countries, but they all must be scrutinized for the behavior they exhibit towards other nations that are targeted by the U.S.
The U.S. began its regime change and asset-stealing effort against Venezuela in 2019 by designating an "interim president," Juan Guaido. In order to legitimize what was illegitimate, the Trump administration asked allies to join in recognizing Guaido. Denmark was among those going along with the dirty deed. "Denmark recognizes the President of the National Assembly ... until new free and democratic elections take place." Of course, Venezuela already had free and democratic elections but when the puppeteer demanded compliance with regime change, Denmark went right along.
There are many examples of Denmark's commitment to being a junior partner in U.S. imperialism. Anders Fogh Rasmussen served as the Prime Minister of Denmark from 2001 to 2009. Just a few months after leaving that office, he became the Secretary General of NATO, serving in that role until 2014. Rasmussen led NATO during the 2011 regime change plot against Libya, and proclaimed the mission "successful" and himself "proud" to have played a role in that nation's destruction.
Trump's determination to take Greenland from Denmark is one that anti-imperialists must oppose. His gangsterish stance, "If we don't do it the easy way we're going to do it the hard way," is shocking to the conscience of anyone who believes in international law or ethics or basic human decency. Yet Denmark's history and politics must be examined as well. That country is no paragon of democracy and justice in its domestic policies or in its international relations as a loyal U.S. proxy.
Leftists in the U.S. are often advised to look to social democratic governments such as Denmark as a guide for governance. But when the Global South immigrant population grew to the kind of tipping point that makes white people uncomfortable, those same social democrats enacted racist legislation in order to police those people, determine where they live and even how often they can interact with their own children. Called the Ghetto Package, the 2018 legislation designated neighborhoods as "ghettos" or "tough ghettos" if their population was more than 50% non-European. The law decreed that public housing could make up no more than 40% of housing stock. Immigrants from nations such as Iraq, Syria, and Somalia were impacted as they were forced out of their neighborhoods through evictions and demolitions. Of course, gentrification followed as private investors renovated the empty housing and immediately raised rents.
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Immigrants were not the only victims of Danish racism. Greenland is the ancestral home of Inuit peoples who share the struggles of indigenous peoples throughout the western hemisphere. They face job discrimination, higher incarceration rates and even the loss of their children, who are removed by Danish authorities.
In the 1960s and 1970s, 4,500 Greenland women and girls as young as 13 were forcibly sterilized when Intrauterine Devices (IUD) were inserted in their wombs, often without their knowledge or consent. Some were permanently rendered infertile, others suffered from a variety of medical conditions. The current Danish prime minister apologized in 2025 for this genocidal practice, but words ring hollow when terrible harm is done to oppressed people.
Now, indigenous Greenlanders are caught in a dilemma. They do not want to be part of the United States, but many of them now fear that efforts at an independence movement will put them in the hands of Trump's billionaire cronies.
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Of course, the U.S. has no right to Greenland but neither do the colonizing Danes. It is wrong for the U.S. to do the bidding of the ultra-wealthy elite who want to grab Greenland and the fact the state operates on their behalf should not end condemnation of these practices. But Denmark and other European nations cannot be allowed to play the victims when they are also the victimizers. They are happy vassals one day, joining the coalition of the willing in the Iraq invasion, but shedding tears when the mafia chieftain takes their stuff. No one should accept Denmark's claims of innocence. In regard to Greenland, there is indeed no honor among thieves.
Posted by t on January 22, 2026, 12:29 am, in reply to "Link:"
I, for one, remember Denmark being the first nation to recognise Kosovo. Effing ijits. No value. Deserves erasure, as in significance in world affairs.
Ha! The biter bit....nm
Posted by Keith-264 on January 22, 2026, 12:32 am, in reply to "Re: Link:"
nmThe last working-class hero in England. Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ??? - 4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ???-4 December 2025
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is spinning in his grave. LOL.
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on January 21, 2026, 11:19 pm