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A YouGov poll found that 46% of Danes view the US as a major threat, surpassing concerns about North Korea and Iran but trailing Russia (86%).

Additionally, 78% oppose selling Greenland to the US, though 72% believe Greenland should decide its own fate.

The poll follows heightened tensions over Trump’s repeated claims that acquiring Greenland is an "absolute necessity" for US economic security.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has sought European unity in response, warning of shifting relations with the US.

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[–] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 1 points 25 minutes ago

Not going to lie if I was Danish I'd probably be feeling Anti American enough to start giving China the mining contracts instead. That way if Trump does invade he's not only going against Nato but also China.

That said it should probably be in the hands of the Greenlanders themselves but not sure a referendum is wise looking at the likes of Brexit etc.

[–] los_chill@programming.dev 8 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

What is the real reason trump wants Greenland?

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I feel he saw how big it was on a typical map and thought "I can double the size of America. All we have to do is kick out these no-name unimportant suckers who happen to be there"

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago
  • sincerely, every imperialist nation to ever exist.
[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Rare earth minerals, exclusive arctic economic zone... and a theoretically easy territorial expansion to ensure his unconstitutional reelection.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Also he is stupid. That's probably an important reason.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

That's always important to keep in mind!

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 hours ago

Also, prime real-estate for when the ice caps melt.

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

An excuse to access the war purse strings.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Mostly as a distraction while he pillages the government coffers and sells off foreign interests to Russia and China.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 68 points 10 hours ago (10 children)

Can someone poll Americans cause I vehemently oppose the purchase and subjugation of Greenland. And I also vote Trump gets run over by a train.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Get a train and do it yourself.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I get started then lose focus and start watching anime. See, this is why Americans need immigrant labor.

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[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago

As an American, I agree, who the fuck cares of that orange turd wants it. He's a monster

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So more than half have not been paying attention?

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 33 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I live in Denmark, and was at a farm store, where the attendant said that musk did not do a nazi salute. I then jumped in and said "well, let's see your do that", which she did, and none of the others reacted to a girl in her late teens doing a nazi salute. You have no idea how many supports AfD and Trump has in Denmark...

Where i work, there's about 120 employees. 5 of them loves Trump, and one even proudly wears a MAGA hat. It's a fucking shit show in the country side.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Do the schools teach history well in Denmark? Part of the problem in the USA is that people simply don't know the history of Nazism and the Holocaust.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

I'm Norwegian, so the educational system is basically the same. Though, I'm not sure about today, but growing up in the 90's, we learned a lot about WW2, including pictures of when our elementary school was overtaken by the Nazis, so you'd think they'd be aware of it.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

It's a fucking shit show in the country side.

So just like the US then.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

PROPAGANDA. WORKS.

Goseph Gerbils is laughing in his hell

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

People are people and people are stupid.

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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Did you get a video? You know, so in the future nazi sympathisers get what they rightly deserve?

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

How the hell do only 78% oppose?

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

There's always about 25-30% insane people in every population. It's roughly the same percentage of Canadians who are SOMEHOW pro-US invasion of Canada

It's insanity

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

It’s roughly the same percentage of Canadians who are SOMEHOW pro-US invasion of Canada

Yeah, I noticed some of those users when blocking a bunch of magas elsewhere, and it was very o_O to see, too.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 hours ago

The article doesn't show the full data but there's probably a good chunk of "don't know / not sure" in that 22%.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 8 hours ago

YouGov is a poll that pays points pr. poll. These points can be used to buy actual products or gift cards worth real money. Lots of people click through them without reading the questions.

They sometimes add "click option 2 to verify that you've read the question", but even then it's likely that some percentages just click the right option by chance. On a short poll like this, they probably didn't even do the check.

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