#Trump’s memo states that the #DOD should be provided jurisdiction over lands including the #RooseveltReservation – a 60-foot-wide swath of land along the #border – for #military purposes including border wall construction & installing detection & monitoring equipment. The memo excludes Federal Indian Reservations.

#Trump’s memo, sent to #Interior Secy #DougBurgum, #DHS Secy #KristiNoem, Secy of #Defense #PeteHegseth & #Agricultural Secy #BrookeRollins, states that the #military must “take a more direct role” in efforts to secure the border & calls on the secretaries to act to provide the #DOD “use & jurisdiction” over certain #FederalLands “to enable military activities” on military installations.

While #Trump’s demands elicited international outrage & a rebuke from #Denmark, WH ofcls have in recent weeks taken steps to determine the financial ramifications of #Greenland becoming a #US territory, including the cost of providing government services for its 58k residents, the sources said.

During the #Biden admin, the #US military & #NATO had both started to treat #GlobalWarming in the Arctic as a matter of real #military concern. Whether that will continue under #Trump is an open question [is it?]. Even as Trump has tried to erase US-govt action on #ClimateChange, when he talks about #Greenland, he’s tacitly acknowledging that rising temperatures are rapidly changing that part of the world—& US interests there.

Their aim, #JDVance said in a video, is to check up on #Greenland’s security, because *unnamed other countries* could “use its territories & its waterways to threaten the United States.” And these are real concerns for the #UnitedStates, rooted in #ClimateChange: As #PolarIce melts away, superpowers are vying for newly open #ShippingRoutes in the #ArcticOcean & largely unexplored #mineral & #FossilFuel reserves.

#Trump's latest comments come ahead of a Fri visit by #JDVance, & his wife, to a US base on Greenland. 2nd lady Usha Vance had been set to to visit the Greenlandic capital, Nuuk, & a dog sled race, but the plans were scrapped amid the pushback.

#Trump has warned that the #US will "go as far as we have to go" to take control of #Greenland.

Trump has repeatedly said that America "needs" Greenland for its own #NationalSecurity, despite a strong backlash from the people of Greenland & #Denmark….

#geopolitics #USexpansionism
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-administration-tariffs-live-updates-2051335

A draft of the #ExecutiveOrder designating #fentanyl as #WMD was distributed likely sometime last week to US Departments of #Commerce, #Defense, #Justice & #State.

Those agencies met on Friday, per a read out of the meeting Kabas reviewed, to discuss concerns.

"We don't want to be part of the #US for obvious reasons; #healthcare & #Trump," said Tuuta Lynge-Larsen, a bank employee & Nuuk resident, adding that this election was especially important. "We don't like the attention, to put it short."

The island holds substantial natural resources, including critical #minerals such as rare earths used in high-tech industries, ranging from EVs to missile systems.

“…I think the fear of the #US #imperialist approach has lately become bigger than the anger towards Denmark," said Julie Rademacher, a consultant & fmr adviser to #Greenland's govt.

Reuters spoke to…Greenlanders in Nuuk, all of whom said they favored #independence, although many expressed concern that a swift transition could damage the economy & eliminate Nordic #welfare services like #UniversalHealthcare & free #schooling.

#Demokraatit, which favours a slow approach to #independence from #Denmark, secured 29.9% of the votes w/all ballots counted, up from 9.1% in 2021, ahead of the opposition Naleraq party, which favors rapid independence, at 24.5%.

Since taking office, #Trump has vowed to make #Greenland - a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark - part of the #UnitedStates, saying it is vital to #US #security interests, an idea rejected by most Greenlanders.

#Trump caused widespread international criticism after repeatedly proposing to empty the #Gaza strip of all #Palestinians & turn the area into a resort.

He proposed taking ownership of the Gaza Strip & redeveloping it, after saying earlier that Palestinians should move out of the region.

"The US will take over the Gaza Strip & we will do a job with it too," Trump said during a joint conference w/ #Israel’s PM Benjamin #Netanyahu last month.

This is NOT HYPERBOLE

WAKE UP

PAY ATTENTION MOTHER FUCKERS!

#Trump #Gaza #Isreal #Hamas #Palestinians #Usexpansionism #WhatsMineIsMineAndWhatsYourIsMine #Imperialism #Authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes
https://apnews.com/article/trump-netanyahu-washington-ceasefire-1c8deec4dd46177e08e07d669d595ed3