During his visit to Greenland, Vance added, “We can’t just ignore the president’s desires.”
yes. yes we fucking well can.
You can’t JD. The rest of us absolutely can.
I still want to know about how a member of leadership from a foreign country could visit a host country, insult the host, attempt to make a propaganda film to support the forced annexation of that country, and repeatedly state their intentions to take the country by force if necessary and not have it be considered a declaration of war.
Seriously, if this were literally any other time in human history or any other country involved, bombs would have been dropping by now.
Yes!
I feel it comes down to money as always. The modern world works on markets, not nationalism.
It’s why these ideas get floated around without consequence. Business just ignores the ideas it till it impacts the bottom line. Then they make whatever changes are best for them, very seldom are the changes made for principles or morals.
The US knows this. They attack Canada without declaring war to convince businesses to invest in the US instead of Canada. It works for the most part, tragically.
“Everybody hated the Nazis but not enough had a problem doing business with them though.”
Edit: Canada will be alright. We’re bringing down interprovincial trade batriers. It’ll help gets projects done all across the country. Out word is gold as well. We keep our promises, unlike the US who don’t realise how destructive breaking all their agreements really is. It makes sense to invest in Canada. We just have to show that to the rest of the world.
Denmark has a movement to buy California from America. As an American citizen, I fully endorse this concept.
LOL. California is more likely to buy Denmark than the other way around.
Denmark can pay the USA in ozempic pills.
What in the fuck even is this Greenland thing? There is obviously no way that any one would have ever taken it seriously so why even put it out there?
Is this reaction fog of war they are injecting into the media narrative to obscure the fact they are running disappearance/ concentration camps?
Sometimes I think they’re trying to scare up NATO spending, but they’re doing it in an entirely pyrrhic way.
Mostly I think they have a 1970 RISK level understanding of the world and do not understand how alliances work.
They talk about geopolitics like they’re 14 and think everything is zero sum, lacking even the most basic elements is game theory and economics.
They talk about geopolitics like they’re 14 and think everything is zero sum, lacking even the most basic elements is game theory and economics.
Yeah. I know some of those types. The almost always misunderstand the moment and deploy some of the worst strategies.
Europeans are finally increasing their defense spending. Asking them nicely for the last decade didn’t work.
It’s between a potential trade route for the US and Russia as well as an increasingly important route for military vessels and eventually high amounts of trade as populations move further north due to global warming, which they obviously believe in when they plan their own future actions.
Hmm. You think this might be an extension of Russian foreign policy?
So instead of “What does Trump gain from this?” we should be asking “What does Putin gain from this?”.
That is one of those things I’ve never really been able to fully wire in. Why is Trump seemingly so perpetually willing to enact (and somehow aware of) Putin’s will? Its totally out of character for him. Trump is incredibly predictable. Maybe one of the most predictable people there is. Whatever serves Trump, most directly and completely, whatever elevates him above all others; this is the thing he will do.
And yet he always defers to Putin. I’ve never fully understood this. I know we can all speculate, blah blah, peepee tapes, blah blah we all hate Trump sure.
But it still doesn’t match. He’s a guy who doesn’t keep promises. He doesn’t pay his debts. He’ll lie, cheat, steal, anything, to set the situation up to serve himself. Why is he keeping this one? Why is his loyalty/ sycophantry to Putin beyond reproach?
Maybe they’ve got something really, really big on him. Something he values beyond all else – even money, even fame, even attention, even power, since those seem to be all he loves.
Maybe Putin convinced him years ago he will bump off Ivanka if he doesn’t obey, or something.
Something he values beyond all else – even money, even fame, even attention, even power, since those seem to be all he loves.
This is exactly why I struggle with the assertion. I literally can-not come up with anything he loves any more than himself. He’s not a loyal person; he has no loyalty in him: its a purely one way street, loyalty is only a thing shown to him, not something he ever shows to someone else. He would sell Ivanka, or anyone in his family, and has, for a mere peppercorn.
Which is why I come to the conclusion that the explanation is insufficient. There is something being missed here, even if we don’t know what it is. And until we can identify that something, we wont be able to build a strategy that splits Trump off from the real source of his power: Putin.
Perhaps his admiration of despots like Putin, and his seemingly desperate desire to become like them, to be considered an equal by them, is the thing that drives him. It could be that he just truly, truly wants to be like Putin, so does anything he can to impress or aid him.
If that’s true, then there’s really nothing anyone can do. (Well, nothing I can mention, that we all know full well, without being on some lists).
I had a kindergarten teacher who grew up in Romania suggested a similar interpretation to me. I should have her over for wine and pick her brain on the matter.
I do think it matters to understand the mind, however horrendous, of someone like Trump. There is plenty to do. Lots of work ahead of us.
‘There is obviously no way that any one would have ever taken it setiously’ is exactly how we came into the shitstorm that is the trump administration. Twice. The public needs to hold politicians to their word, no matter how absurd. If they can’t be serious when addressing their base, how serious can we expect them to be when dealing with allies and adversaries?
‘Bro, your wife is so hot I dream of sleeping with her all the time’
‘Hitler wasn’t so bad, he was acting in the interest of the country’
When does it end? Both those statements deserve a swift punch in the face.
No one is rejecting the seriousness of whats going on. If you dont get that, then spend more time developing context for the comments you are responding to.
Greenland is a strategic position, especially with glaciers melting off.
Russia wants his puppet to take it over for them.
Panama. Greenland. Canada. Gaza.
It truly feels like Trump is desperate to cement his place in history with a territorial expansion. I honestly think these seeds were planted by Putin to destabilize Euro-American (and NATO) relations.
I mean look, it’s so disgusting, but because of Bidens failure to restrain Israel, the political structure for whatever ambitions he has in Gaza have weight.
But Canada? Greenland? Panama?
Look maybe he could strong arm Panama. If it was all he did with the US military in it’s entirety.
But Canada? Like, give me a break. Even with the entirety of the US military they couldn’t do this. And what the world’s going to just stand by?
And Greenland? why? For what purpose? To what ends?
It really doesn’t make sense.
Except maybe what you are saying.
Is he trying to copy Putin?
Typical bully behavior, beat up on the small kid, who cant defend himself. We used to be the big kid who stood up for the smaller bullied kids. Now we’re the bully. It makes me sick.
Leave our European siblings alone already
