French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Sunday that “Europe and France stand by" Denmark and Greenland, insisting that Greenland “is not for sale” on a visit to Greenland’s capital, Nuuk. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the US seeks to take control of the semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

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    The fact that this visit feels neeeded is pretty worrysome, we’re not talking about some independentists polticians but about a powerful neighbour having view over Greenland

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      I think some people don’t really understand the gravity of the situation—that it’s not china or russia who want to occupy greenland, but our supposed ally, the usa.

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    What if we (the whole world) tell Mr. Trumpeltier the price for Greenland:

    It costs him the left half of all his houses. All his houses that he currently owns, and where he currently lives, and all the houses or appartements where he lives in the future, until his death: the left half will always belong to Denmark’s president then.

    No idea how much of it he would understand though.

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      Just tell him it’ll cost his toupee. His vanity will end the conversation.

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        Just tell him it will all be good, while you slip his pills in his snack during bingo night and tuck him in to bed; in the elderly home where he belongs.

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    French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot arrives at Greenland, begins his speech

    Today, you look at your once beloved neighbor and all you see is madness. Pure madness, megalomania, malice.

    French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot pauses to smile over his successful alliteration

    No one! No one has the right to take your freedom! And surely not the US!

    People applauding 10 minutes

    French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot begins to speak again

    So since we talking about freedom. So technically you’re still free if someone owns your land while guaranteeing for your freedom… How about we French invade your Greenland and mine the resources, while you still are free?