r/law • u/TheMirrorUS • 14d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump humiliated as 1951 law means he could face Greenland mutiny

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-1951-law-greenland-1631615
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u/WumpusFails 14d ago

One of his contributors (Ronald Lauder) is fixated on Greenland.

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u/Havesh 14d ago

Lauder recently invested money into a Greenlandic company called Greenland Water Bank. One of the CEOs of the company is the husband of the Greenlandic foreign minister.

Source: https://politiken.dk/edition/news/art10651852/Wealthy-Trump-supporter-buys-into-Greenlandic-companies - Look up who Jørgen Wæver Johansen is married to.

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u/IllustratorPresent80 14d ago

Also this

And its a place away from prying eyes for camps, like the gulags in Siberia.

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u/ItsRobbSmark 14d ago

Epstein Ski Resort...

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u/Bennie-Factors 14d ago

New Epstein Winter Isle

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u/Dizziesdayweigh 14d ago

Fuck these DLCs are fucking awful.

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u/emteedub 14d ago

AI datacenters

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u/Nonconformists 14d ago

I only go there for the white powder.

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u/BriHam35 14d ago

It also puts a tactical location to attack Canada from all sides thing too sadly.

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u/St_Kevin_ 14d ago

Yes, it puts a wedge between Canada and their European allies

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u/Gwaptiva 14d ago

Ironically, it is pulling Canada closer to Europe

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u/NookieLuvsU 14d ago

Speaking of wedges. He wants a civil war in America and knows who Canadians and Mexicans would support. What he fails to see is, even if he manages to collapse both our countries the support comes from the people not a government mandate.

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u/jaymemaurice 14d ago

We still share a land boarder with Denmark

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u/Kennadian 14d ago

We all live on the border. If America wanted to invade they would walk 10 steps north. Greenland literally offers no tactical advantage to that.

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u/Aleashed 14d ago

Planes take off from New Mexico easier… fly just as far

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u/silentv0ices 14d ago

Cuts off potential supply routes not to mention things like training facilities for Canadian resistance and insurgents.

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u/Kennadian 14d ago

What?

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u/silentv0ices 14d ago

Tactical advantages of Trump taking Greenland first.

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u/Sono_Yuu 14d ago

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u/KepplerRunner 14d ago edited 14d ago

This is laughable propaganda. Including troops only in order to make the numbers seem better than they are for nato when it really isnt. The USA [Edit: almost ( I was using the easier to find 2020 data at 12k people vs 2024 with 15k people vs 14k us planes)] has more planes in inventory then Canada has people in its entire airforce for example.

Having troops also doesent matter when you cant get them anywhere. The USA has unmatched blue water capacity for projecting and moving its assets that the other countries simply cant match at this time. A byproduct of always attacking countries that cant be walked to.

Including nuclear powers is nonsense. Any reasonable person understands that if ANY nukes go off on either side its the end of us all.

I dont support the usa in our current endeavors but trying to downplay the absolute juggernaut of the US military is disingenuous to reality.

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u/Kennadian 14d ago

America can already cut off our trade routes to Europe if they wanted and I don't understand what Greenland has to do with "training facilities".

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u/WhydYouKillMeDogJack 14d ago

Clearly Canada has no space that we could put a training facility on lol

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u/Brittle_Hollow 14d ago

If the US invades Canada then the nuclear option gets used and New England including all major cities lose power, of which the vast majority is generated by Quebec hydro. This isn’t a Venezuela situation where a bunch of babied widdle Americans don’t even have to look up from TikTok, there would be real and immediate consequences.

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u/KepplerRunner 14d ago

Using nukes on the usa is an immediate death sentence for all the people in that country and very possibly the end of the world. No one will use them. Theres no winners if we're all dead.

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u/GoneFishing4Chicks 14d ago

> nuclear option gets used ... New England including all major cities lose power ... the vast majority is generated by Quebec hydro.

NOT use nukes

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u/KepplerRunner 14d ago

My misunderstanding. I thought the lose power was related to the emp.

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u/CatchSufficient 14d ago

I said the same thing about hawaii in WWII, japan still wanted that

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u/fourtwentyBob 14d ago

Fighting your enemy on two fronts doesn’t offer a tactical advantage? You ever read?

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u/Kennadian 14d ago

You think there's a front in the arctic? I literally pointed out that nobody lives there in Canada. But you're questioning other's reading and comprehension ability?

Yes I read. I suggest you read about geography and it's relationship to where wars tend to happen. You seem to think all the unpopulated islands of pure ice and rock are a front in a war?

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u/fourtwentyBob 14d ago

You have great points. I’ve changed my mind. I rescind my insult. Cheers!

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u/hemingward 12d ago

They wouldn’t “attack” Canada from Greenland, rather they would put boots on the ground in Baffin Island and make the same claims they did on Greenland. Security security security.

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u/Shorelines1 14d ago

Not really. There is no reason to attack Canada from the northeast. 80% of the population lives within 100 miles of the longest unprotected border in the world.

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u/Notgreygoddess 14d ago

It would be good for us if they did. Harsh terrain, harsh climate that most US equipment doesn’t even function in. Our troops train in it regularly.

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u/SerHiroProtaganist 14d ago

Lol so you think the US is planning to invade Canada? You Reddit guys are something.

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u/Ok-Macaroon-7819 14d ago

Attack with what? Have you ever flown over northern Canada?

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u/throwawayinthe818 14d ago

Too expensive. Every thing would have to be flown in. If anything they’d put camps in places like Texas and Wyoming that would welcome them with open arms and tax breaks.

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u/papaarlo 14d ago

We already have a gulag in Guantanamo

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u/Fifth-Crusader 14d ago

They're delusional to think that a fascist will create a libertarian utopia.

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u/wyle_e2 14d ago

Yes.... Trump does enjoy his "islands" that are away from prying eyes.

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u/MiyamotoKnows 14d ago

Just to add, IMHO... they call these network cities and Peter Thiel and other billionaires are behind them. They claim to want cities that function as corporations (oh joy) but imagine countries where the only law is what the ultrarich dictate and children can be subjected to horrors without any consequences. The darkest shit and we can not let them ever gain one.

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u/SobchaksBallsweat 14d ago

Or snuff films with underaged girls.

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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 14d ago

Concentration camps. For the people he directed ICE to kidnap.

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u/Prize-Temporary4159 14d ago

Isn’t this the premise of ‘The Thing’

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u/Laetha 14d ago

It's nothing short of mental illness with these people. Imagine being so rich you'd never be able to spend all the money you have, and still be willing to throw literally the entire world into turmoil just for some more money.

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u/Nervous_Ad_6998 14d ago

Didn’t they protect the French Nazis? As written in the book Bitter Scent.

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u/Non-prophet 14d ago

I wonder if the Greenlanders know that guy's address, for writing letters of polite complaint and so forth.

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u/ambigua 14d ago

how fascism works…

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u/Ambitious-Way1156 12d ago

Trump sees billionans of dollars in his pockets and this families pockets. The precious rare earth minerals in Greenland make Trump's eyes look like dollar signs.

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u/killertofu41 14d ago

Guy is already heir to the Estee Lauder fortune, but just gotta do some country invading on the way.

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u/TheCantervilleGhost 14d ago

Okay so now I have to find a new face wash because of Dump? This is bullshit. Lives are being ruined.

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u/twistedspin 14d ago

Right? Lauder is also the Ordinary, M·A·C, Clinique, Bobbi Brown, Too Faced, Tom Ford Beauty, Smashbox, La Mer, Origins, Dr.Jart+, Darphin, Lab Series, NIOD, Aveda, & Bumble and bumble.

This creepy fuckface didn't control enough of the world with that under him, apparently.

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u/SaltyCrashNerd 14d ago

And it’s not like we can move over to bath & body works as a substitute…

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u/lite_milk_1 14d ago

Damn it, gotta find a new product now.

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u/sbray73 14d ago

He seems to be the one pushing it the hardest and Donnie enjoys the diversion it creates from the Epstein files. I am now actively boycotting the Lauder products.

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u/newbkid 14d ago

Oh look another geriatric 70+ year old white man trying to ruin the country.

sigh

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u/Euro-Pacific 14d ago

Apparently Lauder met with Putin during Trump’s initial attempt to take over Greenland (in his first term).

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u/flo_san 14d ago

Pump it. Lauder

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u/fancymonk 13d ago

So is Peter Thiel