A huge international scandal is unfolding in Greenland right now. The Danish allowed the Americans to build nuclear powered bases and hide up to 600 nuclear warheads under the Greenlandic ice sheet during the Cold War and never admitted it to Greenlandic authorities. Now it has become clear that the waste from these projects will soon come out of the ice with tens of thousands of tons of dangerous radioactive waste. The Greenlandic government has threatened to secede from Denmark and sue Denmark and USA in United Nations courts.
>Project Iceworm was the code name for a top-secret United States Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The ultimate objective of placing medium-range missiles under the ice— close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union— was kept secret from the Danish government. To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century, was launched in 1960.
The Greenlandic population feels betrayed and that Danes don't care about Greenlandic people. 70% of the Greenlandic population now wants independence. Two months ago, a committee in charge of organizing the future separation of Greenland from Denmark was founded. The Greenlandic PM has said that Greenlanders are "sick and tired" of Danish claims that "Greenland can't live without Denmark" which are "coloured by Danish interests".
>70% of the Greenlandic population now wants independence
So what, like 5000 people?
Noah Allen
This isn't about the US, you have no real reason to care, it's the Danes that are fucked. The total land area of the Kingdom of Denmark will shrink by over 90% if Greenland secedes, and virtually all valuable resources within the Kingdom of Denmark will be lost to the newly founded Greenlandic state.
No, around 40.000 people
Asher Ross
>Danish -civil war of 2017
Tyler Martinez
>tfw the complete and utter destruction of D*nmark is finally at hand
Sebastian Anderson
Is there a rivalry between the danes and you people or is it just you?
William Hall
>greenland will secede Finally Now we dont have to give money to those snowchinks anymore
>The total land area of the Kingdom of Denmark will shrink by over 90% if Greenland secedes, and virtually all valuable resources within the Kingdom of Denmark will be lost to the newly founded Greenlandic state. Top kek
>A huge international scandal is unfolding in Greenland right now Huge as in known for years, by anyone interested, which is no one. They can leave if they want. Godspeed stupid fridge indians.
Ian Morales
Lmao Greenl*nd is a society of complete retards who keep demanding more autonomy Denmark saying they don't need no dane, then fucking everything up and begging them for moni. If anything most Danes will probably be glad if it happens.
Jeremiah Fisher
Fugging based :D
Fuck D*nmark, maybe we can finally have Hans forever!
Jacob Howard
Protip: Greenland made Denmark BILLIONS in oil money
Colton Johnson
except Denmark has been favoring Greenlandic independence for years
The cost of hanging on to Greenland far outweighs the benefits. The problem is that Greenland's population is so small that it's hard for them to do certain basic things, such as provide higher education. They do have a university, but it's a very small one obviously, and most Greenlanders currently go to Denmark to study. There are plenty of issues of this nature, which complicate independence.
Don't get me wrong though, I would like for Greenland to become independent. We would finally have a new North American cuntry, and it would be cool for an aboriginal population in the New World to have their own cunt. Not to mention traditional Inuit culture and mythology are pretty neat. Also, there might be ways for them to establish favorable bilateral relationships with the USA and Denmark; basically, in exchange for allowing the USA to have Thule Airbase and for allowing Denmark certain geopolitical advantages in the Arctic, they could get some shekels or maintain deals allowing Greenlanders to study in Danish universities, for example.
Asher Cruz
Protip: All the oil fields, so far exploited, are far away from Greenlandic waters.
Gavin Martin
>A huge international scandal is unfolding in Greenland right now. no I googled it and nothing came up?
Camden Miller
Will the Danes let Greenland secede or will they use force like the Union did to keep Greenland?
Asher Morales
We'll gladly pay reparations if they join us as the 51st state
Jeremiah Anderson
>Now it has become clear that the waste from these projects will soon come out of the ice with tens of thousands of tons of dangerous radioactive waste. What is this horseshit? Did the warheads shatter under the ice and leak out the payload? How did 600 warheads translate into tens of thousands of tons of radioactive waste?
Lets assume that all the warheads are W78s that weight roughly 330kg. That would be 198 tons, not even close to a thousand let alone tens of thousands.
The fuck is this shit?
Leo Robinson
Oh I heard about this already.
Also, the independence will be short lived.
Chase Peterson
>mfw I get to move Greenland
Luis Morales
>this is what finns actually believe
Owen Davis
Eskimo trying do math on their fingers, while also using the Danish way of counting.
Brody Gonzalez
Icelandic propaganda
Nathaniel Davis
Become independent and then what? Drink until they pass out?
Gavin Collins
americans fuck up yet again
AHAHAAAHAHAHAAAAAHAH
Greens should confiscate those nukes just like China did with their submarine
Samuel Cook
Independence is inevitable. The danish language has been abolished, they have gotten more and more autonomy. They have been moving towards independence for many years.
The only problem is that they still rely on Danish charity for a lot of their GDP.
Sebastian White
Hasn't Denmark conceded most of the powers it had over Greenland by this point? It seemed like Greenland was already on the way to independence, and now it's just accelerating.
Ethan Campbell
So would the dispute over Hans Island then be between Canada and Greenland?
The Eternal Leaf obviously just views this as an opportunity to seize clay.
1. americans made a base called "camp century" in northern greenland in the 50s-60s
2. the purpose was to store ballistic missiles and aim them at the ussr, of course
3. the base was very large and advanced, spanned across 3km
4. there was a secret project called "project iceworm" which never actually happened 4a. the plan was to expand the camp for many kilometers in every direction, have tons of underground tunnels which stored more ballistic missiles 4b. never happened because did not make sense geologically, too risky
5. usa abandoned the camp eventually in the late 60s, took the nuclear reactor (which powered the camp) with them
6. what remains at the site is ~200k liters of diesel, and an unknown amount of other waste
7. it made sense at the time to leave all the waste there because it was all buried under ~12m of ice, away from civilization. global warming was not a thing at the time either
8. now it is under ~35m of ice, even better
9. the problem is, it is getting warmer now and scientists believe the retraction of the ice will be irreversible by 2090.
10. apparently denmark was not notified of the remains nor the plans to expand the operation
tldr: usa didn't clean up their mess, it could become a problem in 80 years
Kevin Morris
11. Stupid Greenlanders who thinks the grass is greener on the other side.
Ethan Sanders
about time ireland colonized iceland and greenland i reckon
Colton Morgan
You guys can't even get northern ireland and want to seize greenland and iceland lol
Grayson Rogers
why don't you shut up you dirty spic
Carson Price
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Robert Green
Can Denmark maybe give greenland clay to Sweden?
Bentley Morgan
Wena nido
Brayden Phillips
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Jace Sanchez
HOW WILL JACKSEPTICEYE EVER RECOVER
Gavin Collins
So it's just business as usual in Greenland then.
Joshua Cox
It was a civilian science drone
Cameron Murphy
You forget that other matter can be contaminated with nukes too. When a nuckear powerplant is shut down, only a small part of the radioactive waste is formed by the actual fuel.
Jacob Young
do denmark and iceland have a conflict with each other? i love iceland and i need to know.
Justin Jackson
Nah it's just a phase. Iceland will come back once they grow up.
Joseph Baker
>Dani in denial
Lincoln Williams
is there a reason for it though?
Hudson Turner
i thought an icelander discovered greenland? why does denmark own it?
Anthony Lopez
Chile bringing the bantz
Nathan Fisher
RARE A R E
Justin King
no one really knows
Because Iceland is danish
Thomas Wood
how new are you?
Ethan Diaz
Iceland and Greenland were Norwegian clay until Denmark took us by force after the plague killed off most of our population, and when the Swedes took Norway, it wasn't specified that Greenland and Iceland would follow, thus remaining under Denmark.
Jackson Cook
(ignore flag btw, am just on holidays)
Evan Ross
I, for one, will definitely fight as a volunteer in the Inuit Seal-Cavalry to smash the evil Danskjävlar during the war for Greenlandian independence.
Jonathan Rogers
those abandoned early warning radar sites in greenland are 2spooky4me
David Gomez
All 30 Greenlanders are in favor of seceding? That sounds pretty serious.
Cameron Long
Europe is USA bitch, more news at 11
Alexander Campbell
They actually rejected Norn Iron when they asked to join (and as far as I remember Brits were fine with it).
Liam White
Ah yes.. the death of the danes. We have all been waiting for this
William Thompson
Nice, can we have our colony back?
Easton Thompson
leafs will no doubt use the political unrest to gain foothold on that rock
Jace Howard
Around a dane only pain
Adam Ward
why would greenland try to sue the USA? What did we do wrong? we have a right to store weapons in different countries..
Grayson Sanchez
From what I've gathered, it seems that every Scand nation hated the Danes for Albion-tier perfidy throughout the centuries
Oliver Brown
It was the waste from the nuclear power plants for the US military camps that leaked not the warheads. They just dumped it in the ice and didn't think any further.
Hunter Green
Danes are imperialist swine and should all be killed.
>Under the rule of the Danish monarchy, Iceland suffered greatly. In the year 1550 Iceland was forced to disown Catholicism, which had been its Christian faith, and adopt Lutheranism, which, being a state religion, gave the Danish monarch greater power. Due to poor harvests, epidemics, the oppression of the Danish government, which enforced, among other things, a trade monopoly with Iceland, and volcanic eruptions, the greatest of which in the recorded history of mankind occurred in Iceland in 1783, the population of Iceland in the year 1800 was only 38000, half of what it was in the year 1100.
>In the 19th century a long battle for independence was fought with the Danish government, mostly in the political arena of Copenhagen. Iceland's most prominent champion was Jón Sigurðsson, a national hero, who was both a statesman and a scholar. Although Iceland kept gaining ground from the late 19th century, it was not until the 17th of June, 1944, that Iceland regained its full independence and established the current Republic of Iceland.
Aaron Bennett
Iceland was ruled by Denmark in the same way as Greenland until 1944. Some people still harbour resentment.
Colton Robinson
We din du nuffin
Gabriel Allen
>d*nm*rk
Angel Edwards
Better learn North American English.
Noah Hughes
nobody gives a fuck about greenland anymore, all of those atlantic-niggers do nothing but coming to denmark and become alcoholics anyway
Mason Evans
They have their own language.
David Rivera
Ah, fuck.
Ok, our mess. We need to clean it up.
William Torres
Are you danes the evil guys in the scandi soap opera?
Ayden Thomas
The world speaks English. That's just a fact.
Jeremiah Young
>What is a second language Nice going, lard
Jose Thompson
But if they leave, you'll lose any claims you might have had to the arctic ocean and it will be between USA and Russia
Robert Brown
Canadian Hans Island now
Ryder Young
Fuck the D*nish! Free Greenland! Free The Faroes!
Elijah Carter
I support their secession 100%
Landon Parker
This can be applied to 90% of the world's problems.
Liam Campbell
If Greenland secedes will it be the only country in the americas with a native official language?
Gabriel Allen
We shall plant our seeds in their clay, and water them with their blood. We shall sweep across Greenland with the ferocity of a strong wind. And when the breeze settles, and the Greenlandics beg for mercy, we'll just say "Surry, eh."
Grayson Wilson
I think there's Bolivia, Paraguay and Guatemala that uses native languages as official
Jack Jenkins
No, Paraguay has Guarani as an official language.
Juan Price
>antok att islenderan noken gang kjem tilbake at dem fjell-lose danskan
Leo Hernandez
We will melt it in front of your very eyes with blow dryers.
Evan Young
How is Greenland actually viable as an independent country? It will just become a wasteland full of alcoholics just like Indian reservations in the US do.
Evan Sanders
Why bother with snowmartian?
Leo Phillips
Please let Greenland join the US, then we can finally surround Canada on all three sides.
Leo Harris
>tldr: usa didn't clean up their mess, it could become a problem in 80 years
Why don't we just... clean up the mess?
Nathaniel Cook
>tf;tp Oh man
Ian Moore
>the Greenlandics
Greenlanders People from Iceland are also called Icelanders The languages however are called Greenlandic and Icelandic respectively.
Benjamin Johnson
>the US >taking responsibility
hoho
Ian Evans
TIL the plague only affected Norway
Jeremiah Lee
They will probably start a project to pay people to move there, or it will become a white Haiti.
Daniel Phillips
What about North America?
Colton Mitchell
>Greenland >White
Nolan Bennett
Thanks for the clarification Icelander bro. You guys are alright.