its just absolutely fucking wild that this is even on the cards…or being discussed
I’m not a military guy, but would the Joint Chiefs follow the order to mobilize?
Trumps people? Yes.
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The US hasn’t officially been at war since WWII as that requires an act of Congress. But it does authorize military actions. It would be challenging to annex another country without declaring war. POTUS does have some leeway for military action without Congressional approval for limited periods of time. However even if the US managed to take full control over Greenland in short time, Congress would still have to approve the annexation. That would require a 60 person vote in the Senate.
Pulled from an article written by Copenhagen based WaPo journalists appearing in Sundays paper:
"Under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which holds that an attack on one is an attack on all, the U.S. is bound to protect Greenland. A 1951 treaty between Denmark and the United States gives the U.S. military pretty much a free hand to locate bases in Greenland and protect itself against attack.
“The United States can basically do what it wants in Greenland,” said Kristian Soby Kristensen, head of the department for strategy and war studies at the Royal Danish Defense College in Copenhagen. “I don’t know of a U.S. demand that hasn’t been met. When President Trump says the U.S. needs military control — well, in a sense it already has it.”
My 2 cents FWIW:
As for annexing or sovereign sale, or invading Trump keeps throwing shit into the wind. I’d lean somewhere along the line of his Iron Dome missile defense thinking and using Greenland as a hosting site as his opening argument to increase the US presence. The mining of resources and such might have to wait to maybe his reign in 2032.
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For some really strange reason, Trump thinks that since he won an election in the U.S he is popular everywhere and people outside your borders will bow down to him in the way as the Republican party and their followers.
It’s really strange.
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Hey, remember back in the fall when Trump was running on invading Greenland as one of his priorities and Trump voters were all like: “This is why I want Trump!!!”
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Yes, but we must abandon Ukraine or else WWIII is just around the corner.
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If US invaded Greenland I wouldn’t get my insulin. So yes I am a just a bit concerned…
Why would they let Ms Vance even into the damn country?
Is this like a special military operation?
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Is it really a war if you’re liberating them from the evil Danes?
I guess anything is possible these days
They are Vikings
Well, they were invaded, conquered, colonized and some Danes settled there so…Did them Danes bring anything, anything at all that is good to Greenland? Maybe US should decolonize them then. 
Or liberating Canada to move from one King to another?
It’s what Canadians want, even if they deny it.
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Wait, what does invading Greenland have to do with the US supply of insulin?
Where it’s made andhow Europe would respond
Wait, what does invading Greenland have to do with the US supply of insulin?
Denmark - major supplier of Insulin - NovoNorsk (and I am allergic to Lilly)
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No one ever knew that the world was really intertwined before now.
Oops, Canada refines 90% of the worlds supply of Cobalt-60, shame if the reactors needed a little down-time