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spanone

(139,250 posts)
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 09:10 AM Yesterday

These fuckers are insane..Hegseth says the Pentagon has contingency plans to invade Greenland if necessary

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over Greenland and Panama by force if necessary but refused to answer repeated questions at a hotly combative congressional hearing Thursday about his use of Signal chats to discuss military operations.

Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee repeatedly got into heated exchanges with Hegseth, with some of the toughest lines of questioning coming from military veterans as many demanded yes or no answers and he tried to avoid direct responses about his actions as Pentagon chief.

In one back-and-forth, Hegseth did provide an eyebrow-raising answer. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., asked whether the Pentagon has developed plans to take Greenland or Panama by force if necessary.

“Our job at the Defense Department is to have plans for any contingency,” Hegseth said several times.

https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-greenland-signal-congress-295b03478d985678c4f2bf2eb5b513ba

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These fuckers are insane..Hegseth says the Pentagon has contingency plans to invade Greenland if necessary (Original Post) spanone Yesterday OP
As a territory of Denmark, Greenland is a NATO member. Lonestarblue Yesterday #1
Trump is insane. sop Yesterday #2
This is 100% gas lighting.... Don't pay attention to Trump's Fascist Shit Show that is crashing down around .... Botany Yesterday #3
Denmark & Greenland should start monitoring Signal to get a heads up on the details of the plan. surfered Yesterday #4
Denmark and Greenland not concerned Sneederbunk Yesterday #5
I wouldn't put too much concern in the statement... haele Yesterday #6
To be honest the Pentagon has plans for invading most countries in a file somewhere. Jacson6 Yesterday #7

Lonestarblue

(12,663 posts)
1. As a territory of Denmark, Greenland is a NATO member.
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 09:20 AM
Yesterday

Any attack on Greenland will trigger Article 5 of the NATO agreement obligating other members to come to Greenland’s defense, so we would have the US, also a NATO member, attacking another member for no reason other than the personal vanity and whims of a delusional president. And we need military plans for this?!!!!

Botany

(74,405 posts)
3. This is 100% gas lighting.... Don't pay attention to Trump's Fascist Shit Show that is crashing down around ....
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 09:30 AM
Yesterday

… him as we kill 300,000 of the poorest people in the world by stopping USAID and even letting food
we had already bought along with supplies to keep people from dying from diarrhea, a U.S. Senator
is assaulted for doing his job INSIDE OF A FEDERAL BUILDING, his North Korean style parade is
going to shit as they are trying to pay people with crypto to attend the parade, and he is losing all
his court cases so Stephen Miller aka Joesph Goebbels had Pete Hog’s Breath bring up an unneeded
war with Greenland & Denmark to gas light and distract from what is happening.

From Wiki:

Gaslighting is the manipulation of someone into questioning their perception of reality.

surfered

(7,283 posts)
4. Denmark & Greenland should start monitoring Signal to get a heads up on the details of the plan.
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 09:45 AM
Yesterday

haele

(14,288 posts)
6. I wouldn't put too much concern in the statement...
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 10:29 AM
Yesterday

The Pentagon has plans for every contingency, even intergalactic alien invasions, a tsunami that wipes out the East Coast, or massive swarms of biologically engineered giant rabid wolves.
The concern I have is that he'd actually follow it

Jacson6

(1,340 posts)
7. To be honest the Pentagon has plans for invading most countries in a file somewhere.
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 10:36 AM
Yesterday

They did this after the Grenada fiasco in 1983.

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