So let me get this straight - a foreign company landed their gear on Greenland without authorisation and is starting to drill for oil without permission. And the government's response is a strongly worded letter?

Why would you not just send the local police to shut it down, impound the ship and expel the people running it? Surely thats trespass, vandalism of public property, theft, illegal importation of goods etc.

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andsoitis 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> So let me get this straight - a foreign company landed their gear on Greenland without authorisation and is starting to drill for oil without permission

No, you didn't get it straight. When you re-read it you will see they have not started drilling, but are preparing to start once they get permission (their application is currently under processing).

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bb123 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Thats what I meant by "starting to drill".

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andsoitis 11 hours ago | parent [-]

> Thats what I meant by "starting to drill".

In your mind "starting to do something" is equivalent to "getting ready to do something"?

That's weird.

For one, getting ready means you have NOT started to do the thing.

Why confuse the two?

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forestrywat 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Not equivalent, inclusive of. Starting to do x can absolutely include getting ready to do x.

When I'm starting to go to bed, I usually take the dogs out one last time, go turn the lights off, etc.

When I'm starting a new team, that might mean selling execs on the idea that I need headcount, finding space for them to sit, etc. all of which are also getting ready.

> For one, getting ready means you have NOT started to do the thing.

Started and starting are very very different.

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		> When I'm starting a new team, that might mean selling execs on the idea that I need headcount, finding space for them to sit, etc. all of which are also getting ready. But would you say “I’ve started hiring”?

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pvaldes 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is a provocation to test the Danish reaction and to make people forget about Iran.

Is also a real risk of a faux flag operation to force the US army to enter the area "in defense of the US citizens that were just doing their drilling job and were unfairly attacked".

See: Rachel Maddow: Is this how we invade Greenland?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGpC91qs8yA

This is a direct stab to NATO in the heart. And EU market is being closed for USA at full speed.

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ck2 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Greenland is a haphazard country of many little islands without connected roads

there's no local police to swoop in and arrest foreigners

that's actually how Landry is getting with it under Trump's support

Denmark must send in their military and destroy all the equipment like they were preparing to destroy runways when Trump was going to invade (this is still a stealth invasion)

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andsoitis 11 hours ago | parent [-]

> this is still a stealth invasion

what is a stealth invasion?

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amanaplanacanal 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd guess an invasion that's pretending not to be an invasion.

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tremon 11 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not an invasion, it's a special drilling operation.

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forestrywat 10 hours ago | parent [-]

That's either very very naive or a joke about how it's absolutely an invasion, but the admin will call it something "inoffensive". Hard to tell these days.

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mrtesthah 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>”They could grant permission for oil drilling, even though the planned wells appear to fall within a conservation area protected by the Ramsar convention on wetlands. Or they could refuse and, some worry, give Trump a pretext to advance his imperialist agenda.”