No, it isn’t. The US, if the deal passes and reporting is accurate, now no longer has to seek permission or even notify Denmark or Greenland about military buildup on the island. They have veto power over foreign investment on the island. And this all holds even if Greenland decides to go independent. Denmark basically agreed to the terms that Canada recently refused when the US tried to strongarm us into a bad deal.
Mr Trump, in a social media post announcing the deal, said the agreement “gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many US concerns”.
He added that his administration would “immediately” begin the process of developing a larger military presence on the mineral-rich Danish territory.
In a statement, [Mette Frederiksen] said “the agreement recognises the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Greenland and Denmark and upholds both peoples’ right “to self-determination”.
If both of these things are true, this is a monumentally stupid move on Denmark’s part. It’s silly to think that Donald Trump is going to respect your sovereignty because he signed an agreement. Denmark would be essentially ceding Greenland.
That’s not the point they were making. They weren’t suggesting that they personally were looking forward to becoming a party apparatchik. What they are saying is that the structure of these parties incentivizes both the party to empower loyal but unqualified people, and for unqualified people to seek upwards mobility through the party. Then, as the party grows and more of those types of people are put in positions of authority, eventually the whole thing collapses from incompetence.
Hegseth didn’t read a book, come on now.
They’re doing full Space Nazi, huh? I guess that shouldn’t be a surprise.
The graphic says the design is “inspired by the discipline and functionality of the Starship Trooper uniform. Modernized for the guardians of the space domain.”
Right wingers are really the undefeated champs at not understanding satire.
Kind of a missed opportunity to not do this with a Mastodon instance.
Hey Canada, why are we not doing this?
Equivalent to getting two of these attached to your chest:
A labour friendly government would outlaw the practice so unions wouldn’t have to waste money and effort fighting this obviously unacceptable bullshit. Wish we had one!
While Muluh initially defended the staff member, thinking he had made a simple mistake, it was later discovered he acted purposely and with a racist motive.
She even had grace for this POS initially. I guess not having to worry about shady spotters is one of the nice parts of being on the weightlifting side of strength sports.
[Edit] She also nailed that lift. Absolutely robbed.
I’m sure he can tank ketamine like a champ.
She suggested that he was responsible for deaths and he didn’t handle that well.
Has California or Minnesota considered blackmailing the president?
Kinda sad I didn’t make their shadowban list.
Don’t worry, I wasn’t planning on adopting any raccoons.
It’s honestly adorable. I wonder if sometime in the future we end up with short spine syndrome raccoon pets because it makes them look cute to us and it becomes a survival benefit for that reason, haha.
That is a very uniquely shaped raccoon, though. Is he just chubby or something?
We cannot allow a torment nexus gap!
The official called the new side deal with the U.S. a parallel agreement to the 2012 Canada-Michigan agreement and said it stipulates that an amount equal to half the net revenues from the bridge will be paid into a U.S.-run economic development fund. The mandate of the fund would be to increase economic development and trade between Canada and the U.S., but it will be up to the U.S. how the money is spent, the official said. The official emphasized that the money paid to the United States would not come directly from the toll revenues but would come from Canadian government coffers in an amount equal to half the net revenues from tolls.
Of course not, that’s why I prefaced my original comment with
I’m going off the reporting I’ve seen thus far.