Denmark watched the United States kick in the doors in Caracas and deployed its military ten days later to make sure Greenland wasn’t next.
That’s what the world learned two days ago when Danish broadcaster DR published an investigation based on more than a dozen official sources. Copenhagen endured Trump’s threats throughout 2025. He sent the vice president against their wishes in March and ran a covert influence operation all summer. After Thanksgiving he appointed the governor of Louisiana as a special envoy whose stated mission was “to make Greenland a part of the U.S.”
Everyone said it was bluster, Trump being Trump, until January 3, when American special forces captured the president of Venezuela in his own capital and flew him to a jail cell in Brooklyn. The deputy chief of staff’s wife posted an American flag over Greenland with one word: “SOON.”
Denmark immediately deployed its military to defend Greenland. Soldiers carried explosives to destroy their own runways and blood from national hospitals to treat the wounded. Under a fake NATO exercise, France sent mountain infantry, special forces, a frigate, and tanker aircraft. Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway sent their own soldiers. Any American attack would mean firing on five allied nations at once.
Trump spent a year threatening to take Greenland and today called every one of those countries cowards on social media because they won’t help him clean up the war he started in Iran. This should be the only story in America tonight and most people will never see it. Tell the people in your world who are understandably shying away from all the bad news these days. Make them understand that Europe was prepared to go to war with the United States sixty-seven days ago.
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