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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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625 points zdw | 2 comments | 27 Sep 25 15:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ck2 ◴[27 Sep 25 16:44 UTC] No.45397371[source]▶
fun-fact: CIA is currently mucking around in Greenland trying to get rid of people against annexation

this is not going to end well

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j9l08902eo

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

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gruez ◴[27 Sep 25 19:09 UTC] No.45398563[source]▶
>fun-fact: CIA is currently mucking around in Greenland trying to get rid of people against annexation

That's a very misleading phrasing for what's essentially an influence operation. Your wording of "get rid of people ..." implies there's some assassinations/violence going on, but there's nothing to suggest that's happening. If Republicans/Democrats or even Russia was running an influence operation in the US, nobody would characterize that as "getting rid" of opponents or whatever.

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1. krapp ◴[27 Sep 25 20:52 UTC] No.45399227[source]▶
Every "influence operation" of this type by the CIA inevitably involves assassinations and violence. That's what the CIA does.
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2. gruez ◴[27 Sep 25 23:40 UTC] No.45400308[source]▶
Source that all/most CIA "influence campaigns" involved "assassinations and violence"? Moreover even if we take at face value that CIA always eventually resorts to assassinations/violence, it's dishonest to claim it's "currently" going on with no evidence of it. It's probably safe to say that most military campaigns involve civilian deaths, but it'd be irresponsible to claim right off the bat that the US military is "currently killing civilians" in the absence of a specific incident.