I have questions about this because this whole situation makes no sense:
- Why does the US need Greenland if we can just station our own troops there anyway (we already do)? If we're actually worried about Russia/China, why doesn't NATO work with the US to keep a more permanent military presence there?
- Do we really think Russia or China would be dumb enough to try and take Greenland? That just seems like something made up. It would trigger article 5 and they'd get wrecked.
On one hand, I agree that Europe is full of lazy freeloaders that have relied way too much on US military protection and spending over the past few years. That's absolutely true, but seems like a separate issue.
On the other hand, I don't understand antagonizing your closest allies over something that seems completely made up. Most of the US came from Europe. We don't have a closer cultural connection with anyone else. Heck I'm Scottish if you go back a few generations.
This just doesn't make sense to me at all. I don't see the point.
At least I can make "The Princess Bride" references a lot right now. RIP Andre the Giant.
My guess is that Greenland has oil.
Yeah we know it has oil, the problem would be extracting it in those conditions. And there is barely any oil infrastructure there, so you would need to start from scratch in what is basically inhospitable artic tundra and sea ice. Would the juice be worth the squeeze at $60 a barrel?
Well let's see, Venezuela is 'uninvestable' according to the CEO of one of the largest oil companies, that didn't stop anything
Donald Trump has a small dick and has failed at everything he turned his hand to until he became the spokesperson for white supremacy, and that combination is tailor made to turn someone into a bully.
He wants to annex Greenland for the same reason he does anything - because ostentatious shows of force against people or nations that cannot fight back make him feel powerful. He's a schoolyard bully with the world's most powerful military at his fingertips, and a packed SCOTUS which will absolve him of any crime he chooses to commit.
It's the same reason he's constantly simping for dictators. He admires them, desires their praise (which is why they manipulate him so easily), and wishes to be one of them.
Settle down Tim Walz
A man who calls the Klan "very fine people" is a spokesman for white supremacy, full stop. There really isn't any other interpretation.
K so I was just going to hit you with the meme but are you actually this dense? You're still running with the blatant "very fine people" lie that was debunked 10yrs ago? I'm not even a Republican but the man even went so far as playing your silly denouncement game saying that the white supremacists present should be condemned totally.
Even SNOPES admits it's a lie!
This is why nobody takes vocal Dems seriously. Because goons like you make the whole party look like a joke taking your talking points from room temp iq tv hosts that get their questions from the candidate's PR teams. Good lord touch grass kid.
I think you meant to post this on Reddit...
This is all part of the 4D maga chess move guys, just relax
Trump has NPD coupled with an oatmeal dementia-brain, knows he likely will not live more than another year, and is trying to cement a bizarre imperial legacy for his embarrassing failure of a presidency. He is also trying to distract the country from the Epstein files at the expense of the post-WW2 security paradigm and stability of liberal democracy.
The Epstein files are so clearly running cover for Israel and it's not even funny. Trump's been Miriam Adelson's whipping boy all year. That said... didn't Joe Biden and the Democrats have a full 4 years to do something with it? They never even brought them up. This shit show is bipartisan.
Yes, Joe Biden was probably avoiding it to cover up for powerful Democrats. Who the fuck cares.
Donny the rapist and pedophile is currently President and sowing chaos in and outside our country and Biden is a vegetable that doesn’t hold public office. Everyone whose name appears in those documents should be aggressively investigated and punished accordingly.
Well this is a pretty bad take. Joe Biden didn't make the Epstein files a major part of his campaign. Donald Trump never shut up about them. It's not bipartisan. Or rather, I am sure that there were plenty of Democrats and Republicans caught up in Epstein's disgusting life. But only Republicans were making it out to be some grand conspiracy that the Democrats were hushing up, so it is perfectly reasonable to hold Mr Trump and his allies to a higher standard when it comes to asking them to release whatever files are out there.
"Worried about China" Like China will do anything in the fucking Atlantic. This has nothing to do with security. Trump is a huge fan of McKinley, and McKinley was the last US president to really expand US territory through the Spanish American war(we acquired small pacific islands, but nothing to the scale of PR or the Philippians since then). Trump wants to do another "manifest destiny" more than anything. Territorial expansion is proven to be one of the most popular things you can do as a leader if it doesn't lead to years of bloodshed and cost.
No, it's an excuse
Actually really not the case anymore. Since the Russia Ukraine war, Europe has seriously bumped up its defense spending, and when it comes to pure spending on army(discounting what America spends on "military" through military healthcare which is just provided in Europe as a base) and military at large, Europe basically equals the US in terms of pure spending. Only 1 nation(Belgium) isn't meeting its defense targets
Mentioned earlier. It has very little to do with resources, very little to do with geographic location, and everything to do with the action of expanding territory itself. I mean, really think about why Trump does what he does. He does everything for attention. He does everything to have some sort of legacy. Taking Greenland would be a permanent expansion of US territory, something he could point to as his legacy. Could we instead look to take smaller places with more resources, or invest in underwater acquisitions of resources? Sure, but that doesn't expand your borders.
I mean, seriously, look up everything McKinley did. It's insane how similar McKinley and Trump actually are. Trump clearly adores the previous leader and wants to be just like him.
Trump is an actual retard. There isn't much more to it.
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