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Anglophile, Argentina and Japan enthusiast

[Acorazado de Plata 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇦🇷 🇯🇵 @AzurLaneFan47]

🇦🇷 ¡Feliz Día de la Independencia, mi amada Argentina! 🇦🇷

[Sarah Lenore @Sarahlenore]

Feliz Día de la Independencia 🇦🇷🤍💙
debería hacer la segunda parte..? 🫣
#argengringa

[Ada Lluch @AdaLluch]

Demasiada paciencia ha tenido ese policía.

Nadie debería estar por encima de la ley. Qué clasista es Irene Montero…

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

TRH Prince and Princess of Wales.💜

[Vicky Richter🇩🇪🇺🇸🇧🇷🇬🇧 @VickyR1chter]

🚨 DEMOCRACY HAS OFFICIALLY FAILED

The people voted. The majority chose RED.

I have therefore carefully considered the will of the people… and decided to completely ignore it. 😂

Life is no Pony Club and democracy clearly isn’t working either, so I’ve overthrown the democratic process and decided to remain blonde by executive decree. 👱🏻‍♀️👑

My hair. My dictatorship. My rules.

Now to rescue the approximately seven hairs still loyal to the regime. 😂😂

[Andrew Isker 🌳🪓 @BonifaceOption]

None of the BoomerCon “I love the Constitution more than life itself” people on here have ever actually read anything the men who wrote it said.

They have zero interest in 18th Century American political thought.

It’s all a LARP.

They wear the Founders as a skin suit to defend the Warren Court and Civil Rights revolution.

You want to know why we cannot have a Christian America?

Not because of the Founding Fathers.

Because after nearly 200 years, Earl Warren declared anything officially Christian by the government illegal and the Civil Rights Act banned any freedom of association for Christians.

THAT is “the Constitution” these people want to preserve.

[International Hockey Federation @FIH_Hockey]

😍😍😍

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Ok, we now have the actual text of the Greenland deal (https://t.co/VxZ1Q47jsh), so we can say how it compares to the existing 1951 arrangement and who, between Trump and Denmark, lied the most in their framing of it.

Long story short - which may surprise some - the Danes lied the most: Trump is pretty much correct in saying that this new deal grants the US control of Greenland.

Let's look into what changed compared to the 1951 deal.

1) This is now a permanent arrangement: whereas the existing 1951 deal only lasted as long as NATO existed, this one "does not have an end date and may only be amended by mutual consent."

It even survives a hypothetical future independence of Greenland: in that event, Denmark and Greenland must ensure that the independent Greenlandic state "affirmatively assume[s] all of the rights and obligations of the Kingdom of Denmark specified in this Agreement."

2) In the 1951 agreement, the US could set up bases only where both governments agreed, and only on the basis of NATO planning. The new deal locks in three bases: the US can "modernize and expand its activities" at Pituffik, its only base in Greenland until now, and "shall be allowed to establish an additional Defense Area at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig." Further bases beyond these 3 can be justified by the defense of "the American continent," a US interest rather than a NATO one.

Also, quite subtle but this is interesting: Article IV(iii) says that "the United States may establish additional defense areas in Greenland" and that consultations are then held "to decide implementation details based on mutual agreement." What this means is that the principle of a new base is automatically granted and only the implementation details require agreement.

Article VII also gives the US "the right to raise concerns regarding construction, or change of use" of any building near a US base, after which the parties decide together what to do. Which means that the US has a say over civilian planning around its bases.

3) On US military movement across Greenland, the wording change between the 1951 agreement and this new one is quite funny.

The 1951 text said (Art. V(3)): the US "may enjoy... the right of free access to and movement between the defense areas through Greenland, including territorial waters, by land, air and sea," but only "in accordance with general rules mutually agreed upon and issued by the appropriate Danish authority in Greenland."

The new one says: "the United States of America shall enjoy... the right of free access to and movement between the Defense Areas through Greenland, including the Territorial Waters, by land, air and sea."

That's it: "May" becomes "shall," and the US military movement no longer has to follow rules "issued by the appropriate Danish authority in Greenland." The US also gets something new on top: "undersea access to and movement within the Territorial Waters," i.e. submarines.

4) Non-NATO exclusion: non-NATO states are barred from military installations or a persistent presence in Greenland unless all three parties approve, giving the US an effective permanent veto. The 1951 deal had no equivalent clause.

5) Investment screening: this is entirely new. "States or investors from a state that is not a member of NATO, a NATO partner, or an EU member state" (i.e. Russia, China, India, the Gulf States, etc.), "shall not be allowed to have (i) control, (ii) significant influence, or (iii) access to non-public information...within Particularly Sensitive Sectors or Activities in the territory of Greenland (including the Territorial Waters), unless agreed between the Parties."

Again, it basically means that the US has a permanent veto over who can invest in strategic sectors in Greenland, as far as non-NATO or EU states are concerned.

6) Lastly, in stark contrast with the 1951 deal, the framing of the deal changes significantly: this new deal is largely framed around the US.

The 1951 agreement existed only "for the benefit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization." The new one lists the defense of "the American continent" as an objective, celebrates "the irreplaceable role" of the United States military as well as "the United States' indispensable historical and ongoing contributions to the security and defense of Greenland," and names the establishment of Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense system as a key goal.

So, to sum up:
- The US secured a permanent military foothold that even an independent Greenland would inherit whether it likes it or not
- The US now has veto power over any non-NATO military presence in Greenland, and over who can invest in its strategic infrastructure and resources (beyond NATO and the EU)
- Denmark signed away its say over the principle of new US bases, with only the right to discuss the "implementation details"
- Danish authorities no longer set the rules for US military movement across the island
- And all of it is now justified by the defense of "the American continent"

I don't know in which universe this even remotely "recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom and the Greenlandic people's right to self-determination," as Danish PM Mette Frederiksen put it (https://t.co/dHOavrPB3r).

Yes, the preamble of the text cynically "reaffirms" Danish sovereignty but, in my book, when you let a foreign country put bases on your soil, move its troops without following your rules and veto who else can come in, in perpetuity, after it spent two years threatening to take you by force, the word for that is anything but "recognized sovereignty" 🤷

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Japan hosts a memorial ceremony for the September 11 attacks.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Kozumi pledges Japan’s support for any American anti-terrorist efforts.

[Acorazado de Plata 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇦🇷 🇯🇵 @AzurLaneFan47]

@Olympics @FIH_Hockey

[The Olympic Games™ @Olympics]

Argentina's passion never ceases to amaze us. 🤯 This time, embodied by two-time Olympic medallist Carla Rebecchi. 👏🇦🇷🏑

Tag that person on your team who scores the most unique goals. 👇

#Olympics #Hockey

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘It’s imperative we stop a very stupid deal.’

Political Strategist and Podcast Host Tiffany Marie Brannon emphasises the importance and dangers of the Chagos Islands deal for UK and US national security.

📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604

[VMAC @realVMAC1]

@Polymarket @MGadsden1776 Let’s go!!! 🇺🇸 🤝 🇵🇱

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Polish President Karol Nawrocki declares any permanent U.S. military base built in Poland will be named “Fort Trump.”

[Monika @MBA8521]

@EricLDaugh https://t.co/QqKyncLeYn

🎉🇺🇸🇬🇱 Let’s keep winning!

[Acorazado de Plata 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇦🇷 🇯🇵 @AzurLaneFan47]

@EricLDaugh

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN — IT'S OFFICIAL: President Trump by stroke of pen has SIGNED the permanent security deal for US rights over GREENLAND, an absolutely historic moment with major consequences for decades to come

He was flanked by Denmark and Greenland leaders

America will IMMEDIATELY be able to increase our military presence, China and Russia are LOCKED OUT of both key investments and militarily, and the deal has NO expiration date

Greenland is permanently under the North American security umbrella, meaning this also has positive implications for Trump's missile defense plans

The deal is so good, even Denmark agreed and praised it!

Trump was serious about Greenland ever since before he was president. HE MADE IT HAPPEN, AGAINST ALL ODDS 🇺🇸🇬🇱

[tuseroni @tuseroni]

@YanksFan239 @reddit_lies Per capita, maid exceeds ALL gun deaths in the us...including suicide.

[Intelschizo @Schizointel]

Well, we're about to rename Boston to Atlantis

[PointlessHub @HubPointless]

Halo Studios was a fitting name because they did really just make Halo, the first game, called Halo, then exploded