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Gotta love having a president that has to be warned by allies NOT to invade other countries. This is SO great!
Oh and since not everyone gets it…/s.
I say we let him have it. No, seriously! Just like we should let Musk have his Mars mission.
Give 'em a little certificate. “Look, you now own the thing! Good job!”
…Drop them off to survey their spoils…
…and frickin’ leave 'em there to be forgotten forever.
I love it!
ELI5 how is Trump any better than Putin? Both seem to be following the same playbook of intimidation and unlawful invasions, showing utter disrespect to international law.
That’s exactly what Putin wants. He wants the US to behave as he does so that he can say, “see? The US is no better than me.”
Distraction
He’s even more unhinged than the first time around
He has rallied the Christofascists around him with four years to reorganize, has escaped all punishment for his first insurrection, has the support of Putin once again, has the world’s richest Nazi on side and funding him, and is emboldened.
… Warn America
If the USA attacks another NATO country, article 5 requires that the rest of NATO all pile on. None of those countries could individually do much, but you’d be loosing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and trillions of dollars to possibly take an icy rock with a population of 56000. It’s fucking stupid.
In one fell swoop the US would be dismembering itself from its most important geopolitical allies and secondary trade partners. There is absolutely no win here for the US unless NATO balks at US intimidation and decides to let Greenland go without a military response, which would open the door for more US bullying for lunch money. NATO must resist with force. Greenland is not worth the consequences, no matter how many minerals or shipping routes control there are in it. I suspect Trump will try the intimidation to the last moment possible, but i have big doubts that he will actually invade or be allowed to invade and intimidation never worked well against Europeans.
Which is why Trump will also be working hard to undermine NATO in any way he can.
…besides the fact that two of those other NATO members have nuclear weapons, which severely complicates matters.
No-one is getting nuked over Greenland. That’d be retarded even by trump’s standards.
Greenland is resource rich, and holds like 2/5ths of the Northern Passage opening up.
I’m the guy usually defending diplomatic talk. It’s nothing like how we talk and interpret one another’s words.
OTOH, I’m screaming at world leaders to grow a pair.
“Fuck around and find out you you little trust fund bitch. Please, fuck around.”
High time the world stands up and says, “Nah. Fuck off America. We’ll take what comes.”
Signed, an American.
History repeats itself.
