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riversedge

(80,040 posts)
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 08:35 AM Jan 17

Stephen Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland... Under e

Troops from the EU countries have landed in Greenland in support of Denmark--and Stephen Miller is having a BIG meltdown because of this. Too bad!!



Stephen Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…


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Stephen Miller says the US should take over Greenland because Denmark “cannot defend Greenland”

“Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory”

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Stephen Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland... Under e (Original Post) riversedge Jan 17 OP
I live for the day he's in handcuffs malaise Jan 17 #1
Indeed. That would be a delightful day!! riversedge Jan 17 #10
i rellish wen their leader is iether dead or in jail. AllaN01Bear Jan 17 #27
And aa muzzle! 2naSalit Jan 17 #35
Creepy ghoulish fascist. Joinfortmill Jan 17 #55
STFU............... Lovie777 Jan 17 #2
Except it's not us against Denmark anymore, dipshit BeyondGeography Jan 17 #3
Is he really that stupid? Native Jan 17 #36
Yes. Criminally stupid. Justice matters. Jan 17 #50
Denmark lost 43 soldiers in Afghanistan Seinan Sensei Jan 17 #42
So I guess we should just take all the countries too small to defend themselves against the US Ocelot II Jan 17 #4
Starting with the Nordic land of Minnesota underpants Jan 17 #12
Bring it on! Ocelot II Jan 17 #13
(Oh, oh- That sounds serious!) Conjuay Jan 17 #14
Only the white ones. milestogo Jan 17 #20
Unless maybe they have oil or valuable minerals. n/t Mister Ed Jan 17 #51
Sounds like Hitler-Nazi policy to me!!!!! Jack Valentino Jan 17 #63
He just made that up. Srkdqltr Jan 17 #5
Yes. He is. underpants Jan 17 #11
Stephen Miller is a tiny man with a tiny d*ck who will not be able to defend himself when Trump is gone. sop Jan 17 #6
talk about tiny! Stephen Miller is a tiny man with tiny hands and samnsara Jan 17 #7
Napoleon Complex incarnate no_hypocrisy Jan 17 #8
Fuck off miller. spanone Jan 17 #9
Quiet, pee wee piggy SheltieLover Jan 17 #15
Someone want to remind the mini-weasel Conjuay Jan 17 #16
Denmark has friends. And they like Denmark more than they like Trump's America. Baitball Blogger Jan 17 #17
No. One-dimensional... The Madcap Jan 17 #21
Okay. One dimensional. Baitball Blogger Jan 17 #23
Denmark ranks #2 on the happiness scale, Finland ranks #1. OGBuzz Jan 17 #31
Conservatives can think? mwmisses4289 Jan 17 #59
Stephen Miller is a tiny man, with a tiny brain and a tiny heart Quiet Em Jan 17 #18
Same argument will be used to seize our homes, property, & businesses delisen Jan 17 #19
Grim overview but sadly accurate peggysue2 Jan 17 #44
But always OTHERS than themselves will be sent to eat little fish. Justice matters. Jan 17 #53
In 1938 he would have said the same thing about Czechoslovakia. yellowcanine Jan 17 #22
Yo are so right. Trump would have totally appeased Hitler. delisen Jan 17 #24
And Miller is a tiny nazi prick. OGBuzz Jan 17 #25
This man is an evil brutal psychopath who is extremely dangerous. Irish_Dem Jan 17 #26
Law? Liberal In Texas Jan 17 #28
When he was an infant, Mblaze Jan 17 #29
Is this idiot not aware of NATO? radical noodle Jan 17 #30
Yep hurple Jan 17 #40
Stephen Miller is a traitor. Kid Berwyn Jan 17 #32
Trump and the dumbasses around him do not understand . . . AverageOldGuy Jan 17 #39
From this day on, The Miller Doctrine Disaffected Jan 17 #33
Another de facto rule Picaro Jan 17 #34
I believe if the circumstances of Millers life were just a bit different... biocube Jan 17 #37
Memo to Stephen Miller: AverageOldGuy Jan 17 #38
NATO, however viva la Jan 17 #41
By this stupidity D_Master81 Jan 17 #43
Mini-Nazi-Me Wicked Blue Jan 17 #45
Probably some "big" football players moondust Jan 17 #46
Stephen Miller completely understands the Nazi ideology. Norrrm Jan 17 #47
Denmark should acquire nuclear weapons though. Greenland is very valuable. Wanderlust988 Jan 17 #48
Miller should read about what happened to ancient Athens when it alienated its allies. dedl67 Jan 17 #49
This guy is stupider than trump SSJVegeta Jan 17 #52
Fascist Pig. Joinfortmill Jan 17 #54
My neighbor has a better house than I do. Thunderbeast Jan 17 #56
Where the fuck is Congress? Scrivener7 Jan 17 #57
And the world can dump their US bonds. Dawson Leery Jan 17 #58
I would feel sorry for the Greenlanders. Looked it up, and the Greenland population is allegorical oracle Jan 17 #60
Miller may be an example of what happens if too many swirlies are administered Buns_of_Fire Jan 17 #61
or Not Enough, during his latter years.... Jack Valentino Jan 17 #64
If it looks like a nazi and quacks like a nazi, then it's probably stephen miller struggle4progress Jan 17 #62
Hey Tiny Nazi *****head... You're STUPID.. Cha Jan 18 #65

BeyondGeography

(40,937 posts)
3. Except it's not us against Denmark anymore, dipshit
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 08:40 AM
Jan 17

Basically every other NATO member besides Trumplandia will be throwing in with Denmark the way things are going. Not that I expect that to change his calculus, but it should. Because the fallout for America will be enormous if we go through with this.

Seinan Sensei

(1,439 posts)
42. Denmark lost 43 soldiers in Afghanistan
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:45 AM
Jan 17

They lost more military personnel per capita than any other nation fighting in Afghanistan

Ocelot II

(129,730 posts)
4. So I guess we should just take all the countries too small to defend themselves against the US
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 08:41 AM
Jan 17

if that's the only criterion? Which is just about all of them. I guess he forgot about NATO.

Ocelot II

(129,730 posts)
13. Bring it on!
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 09:11 AM
Jan 17

Vi er vikingenes barn! Vi skal drikke akevitt fra fiendens hodeskaller og danse på likene deres! Ikke drit i Minnesota!

Jack Valentino

(4,626 posts)
63. Sounds like Hitler-Nazi policy to me!!!!!
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 10:04 PM
Jan 17

and if people like Trump and Miller succeed in wrecking NATO,
no doubt Putin will take advantage of that by swallowing up countries
like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania---

if he can find the troops to spare from his less than successful Ukraine war
to do it!

underpants

(195,568 posts)
11. Yes. He is.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 09:04 AM
Jan 17

Miller’s claim that “every understanding of law” requires nation-states to be able to defend their territory or risk losing it turns international law and international relations on their heads. The use of force against sovereign nations is illegal under international law, unless the force is being deployed in self-defense or if the U.N. Security Council has authorized it.

The principle that nation-states should respect each other’s territorial sovereignty is not new, and was famously expressed in the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years’ War.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/stephen-miller-warps-international-law-to-justify-greenland-annexation-to-control-a-territory-you-have-to-be-able-to-defend-a-territory/

samnsara

(18,740 posts)
7. talk about tiny! Stephen Miller is a tiny man with tiny hands and
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 08:48 AM
Jan 17

a tiny head and tiny other stuff. Hell my 21 yr old grand daughter could take him down

Baitball Blogger

(51,896 posts)
17. Denmark has friends. And they like Denmark more than they like Trump's America.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 09:35 AM
Jan 17

Stephen Miller is an example of conservative's two dimensional thinking.

OGBuzz

(90 posts)
31. Denmark ranks #2 on the happiness scale, Finland ranks #1.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:15 AM
Jan 17

USA ranks #24. Electing a failed reality show host and BFF of the biggest pedophile in history has consequences.

Quiet Em

(2,636 posts)
18. Stephen Miller is a tiny man, with a tiny brain and a tiny heart
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 09:43 AM
Jan 17

and his behavior and ideas are completely indefensible.

delisen

(7,288 posts)
19. Same argument will be used to seize our homes, property, & businesses
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 09:48 AM
Jan 17

This will be the grounds for taking the property of individual American citizens.

Trump is manipulated, not just by Putin but also by the MAGA billionaires and the 2025 fascists and other authoritarians.

Their philosophy is big fish eat little fish, might makes right.

Trump is a parrot. He yells at Zelensky: Russia is big, Ukraines is little, you have no cards-you have to give Russia your land.
He yells at Greenland and Denmark: You are not strong enough to defend yourselves, we are big and strong enough to defend Greenland so you have to give it to us.

You have no cards, you have no choice. I am strong, you are weak. Might makes right.

The same plan is shaping up for private individual and small business ownership bt US citizens. The have eminent domain law, they are merging big business ownership and government. They intend to grab our land, our buildings.our water, our resources. To them we are not people, we are not citizens, we are prey.



peggysue2

(12,443 posts)
44. Grim overview but sadly accurate
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:52 AM
Jan 17

Miller and his ilk do not care about the rule of law. They believe in the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest which is cray when you imagine a Miller or Trump actually in a jungle attempting to survive.

Of course, this is drawn from the God complex the world's billionaires have developed--those with gargantuan wealth are superior in all ways and have every right to exert their will on the chattel (that would be the rest of us). Manifest Destiny--the strong have a duty to conquer the weak.

If you take this to its bitter conclusion, yes they would control all resources, everything. As for the rest of humanity? Zip, nada, tough luck.

Think of the movie Elysium, a dystopian narrative in which the wealthy live and thrive on a space station while the earth and the rest of humanity withers beneath them.

Then think of Peter Thiel's idea of floating cities commanding the seas, towering cities where only the rich live and rule, and then like mythical gods conquer death.

Crazy? Yes. Cruel and depraved as well. These greed heads have lost their souls.

This is what we're fighting. The rise of monsters.

Justice matters.

(9,556 posts)
53. But always OTHERS than themselves will be sent to eat little fish.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:01 PM
Jan 17

And risk getting eaten by bigger fish than they are, and this Fascist authoritarian doesn't care about them.

They just don't want to have to go eat little fish themselves.

They just want the money and the power to rule like tyrants.

Mblaze

(937 posts)
29. When he was an infant,
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:14 AM
Jan 17

Stephen Miller was much more succinct. He would just say "Mine" Mine" when he took another child's toy.

hurple

(1,354 posts)
40. Yep
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:27 AM
Jan 17

I was about to ask exactly this.

Denmark won't be defending Greenland. The world will. If we invade, we'll be at war with Denmark, and Germany and Great Britain and Canada, and ... almost every other country...

Kid Berwyn

(23,641 posts)
32. Stephen Miller is a traitor.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:17 AM
Jan 17

The United States has no better Ally than Denmark. Attacking Greenland would destroy NATO. That is a top priority for our sworn enemy.

AverageOldGuy

(3,562 posts)
39. Trump and the dumbasses around him do not understand . . .
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:24 AM
Jan 17

Two fundamental truths:

1. When you go to war, you want all your friends to go with you and bring their guns.
2. It's better to fight the war in someone else's front yard.

Picaro

(2,353 posts)
34. Another de facto rule
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:19 AM
Jan 17

This one has been around for thousands of years.

The rule? YOU DON’T ATTACK YOUR ALLIES.

OR YOU WON’T HAVE ANY ALLIES.

AverageOldGuy

(3,562 posts)
38. Memo to Stephen Miller:
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:22 AM
Jan 17
So Denmark has a small military -- then how about you draw your weapon, your rucksack, your basic ammo load, your rations, and then climb into the back of a C130, and wait for the command to STAND UP -- HOOK UP -- SHUFFLE TO THE DOOR --

You fucking pussy.

D_Master81

(2,397 posts)
43. By this stupidity
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:50 AM
Jan 17

There’s like 5 countries that actually “own” there land. Because if 1 of the world super powers invaded nearly any country they would defeat them. I can’t believe he actually said this out loud.

Wicked Blue

(8,721 posts)
45. Mini-Nazi-Me
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:04 PM
Jan 17


A few lines from Austin Powers movies:

"He fits easily into most overhead storage bins"

"Heel, Mini-Me! Heel!"

"That vicious little... chihuahua thing"

He also tends to dry hump random things.

moondust

(21,257 posts)
46. Probably some "big" football players
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:40 PM
Jan 17

would enjoy pounding little Stevie into a puddle of pulp just because they can. Okay, Steve? Might makes right?

Norrrm

(4,382 posts)
47. Stephen Miller completely understands the Nazi ideology.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 12:42 PM
Jan 17
https://www.bing.com/search?q=nazis+and+denmark&form=ANNTH1&refig=696bc65c131849e3aa5cc4e78d5dc2af&pc=LCTS

German Occupation of Denmark
Initial Surrender: Denmark was invaded by Germany on April 9, 1940, and surrendered almost immediately due to the overwhelming military superiority of the Germans. The Danish government chose to cooperate with the Nazis to maintain some degree of self-determination and avoid harsher measures.
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Wanderlust988

(753 posts)
48. Denmark should acquire nuclear weapons though. Greenland is very valuable.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:11 PM
Jan 17

I know they would be abhorred at the idea, but since they are a small country with limited resources, they are rich enough to buy weapons. They need some nukes.

dedl67

(192 posts)
49. Miller should read about what happened to ancient Athens when it alienated its allies.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:50 PM
Jan 17

It eventually lost the Peloponnesian War. But Miller is not nearly as bright as he seems to think he is, so there is little hope for him learning from history.

Thunderbeast

(3,799 posts)
56. My neighbor has a better house than I do.
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 02:10 PM
Jan 17

She is 94 years old and uses a walker. She is a pacifist who owns no weapons.

I have decided that I MUST HAVE HER HOUSE. Since she has no way to defend it, I feel justified in taking it since powerful people have always taken what they want. Justice, laws, and morality has always been for weaklings. THAT is the natural order. GET OVER IT!

allegorical oracle

(6,323 posts)
60. I would feel sorry for the Greenlanders. Looked it up, and the Greenland population is
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 03:33 PM
Jan 17

is 87.6 percent Inuit. And we all know how much djt and Nosferatu Miller love indigenous people.

Buns_of_Fire

(19,055 posts)
61. Miller may be an example of what happens if too many swirlies are administered
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 04:17 PM
Jan 17

during one's formative years.

Personally, in his case, I don't think of it as a prank. I think people would honestly be trying to flush him away.

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