A rare snowy owl perches on a bald eagle flag pole topper in front of Union Station in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) @APNews #SonyAlpha #snowyowl #owl pic.twitter.com/ASNzmhaOWy
— Carolyn Kaster (@CKaster) January 14, 2022
The Danish intelligence has accused Russia of forging a 2019 letter to Senator Tom Cotton, claiming to be from Greenland's foreign minister & alleging there'd be an independence referendum.
Tom Cotton claims to have given Trump the idea to buy Greenland.https://t.co/9GDbPfMJq5 pic.twitter.com/15CtcxpkXK
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) January 15, 2022
SRSLY:
Danish intel says "Russian influence agents" forged a letter from Greenland's foreign minister to a US senator in 2019 saying it would hold an independence referendum https://t.co/n3er5qgC1v
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) January 13, 2022
Harvard Law graduate Sen. Tom Cotton got the NYTimes to publish his op-ed ‘suggestion’ that Greenland should sell itself to the United States. (Which would be like Puerto Rico deciding to sell itself to Denmark: Neither party would have any interest in the idea, even if there were a reason beyond ‘Repub Senator wants to position himself as an out-of-the-box thinker prior to his presidential run in 2024’.)
Some weeks later, Sen. Cotton’s office received a catfishing lure from, it is averred, Russian agents… which the TFG Administration seems to have responded to, predictably:
Saturday Morning Open Thread: New Type of Affinity Fraud?Post + Comments (217)