# Trump now wants to use military force to take the Panama Canal and Greenland

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**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691 "2025-01-07T20:27:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691/1261 "2026-09-22T15:47:03Z")

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Oh, and the damn sofa is short for Status Of Forces Agreement 🙂

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691/1262 "2026-09-22T15:50:45Z")

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> [@Mikkel](#):
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> the damn sofa is short for Status Of Forces Agreement

JD Vance: _confused disappointed noises_

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**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691/1263 "2026-09-22T15:58:25Z")

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The agreement is [here](https://stm.dk/statsministeriet/publikationer/aftale-mellem-groenland-danmark-og-usa/)in all three languages. English is Engelsk at the bottom.

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691/1264 "2026-09-22T17:54:38Z")

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I’m certainly not as great an intellect as Trump - but I don’t read anything in that agreement that Trump said was there (that likely wasn’t there before - maybe the “non NATO restrictions” weren’t there before???).

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691/1265 "2026-09-22T17:57:02Z")

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