Vice President JD Vance traveled to Greenland to promote President Donald Trump’s claim that America has to have the Danish territory—and that Greenlanders would be more secure under U.S. protection.President Trump “has repeatedly suggested the U.S. should take over Greenland ‘one way or the another...
Declarations of war are formal documents delivered by a foreign minister to an ambassador and are legally binding.
Some prat running their mouth, even if they’re a senior governmental official, has never been a legal declaration of war.
You seriously think that any other world leader in history wouldn’t consider what Vance did a declaration of war because he didn’t file the right paperwork?
At the very, very least, he would have been militarily escorted out of the country and had his base seized.
You have a very melodramatic impression of diplomacy. War is very expensive.
It’s still a blatant attack on their sovereignty, whether you want to call it an “act of war,” or not. Denmark should be, at the very least, shoring up defenses. I would believe Trump when he says he needs to do this.
Denmark is currently investing heavily in seamines, ships to handle the seamines and underwater surveillance. Unfortunately I fear it’s too little too late, but only time will tell I suppose.
No matter what, the best bet is to make the invasion so costly it won’t be worth it for the US.
My only (possibly last?) hope is that, if he begins some kind of invasion, that it’s over whatever line that our military leaders have drawn in the sand in terms of obeying unlawful orders, and they refuse.
I’m not optimistic.
Which is why it’s been waged almost inconstantly for the entire history of the human race?
You seem to be purposely missing the point of the other poster when they say declaration of war and probably meaning an act of war