That is exactly what the Russians said about Ukraine…
If you think people voted for Trump to stop new wars you’re the one that got fooled. Trump’s base just wants immigrants to suffer. They want to go back to the time when they were the privileged race. Trying to fight MAGA on foreign policy and economy is a waste of time. They don’t understand either. The left needs to finally understand this and stop falling for this distraction.
I don’t like these comments because it isn’t only ignorant, it actually derails one of the in roads we have to engage his base. There’s always die hards who will go down with the ship. But politics is all about fence sitters. Hell the whole fucking reason people protest is to raise awareness. Who do you think that awareness is for?
Derailing people who are pointing out that yes there are Trump supporters that hate these decisions only makes it harder to remove it at the end of the day for what benefit? To dunk on them?
Every right leaning group i go to I am seeing more and more staunch republicans and MAGA already laying roads to peel the fuck out. The algorithms are being weighed to the left again finally.
Also not wanting illegal immigration is not a crazy concept. The problem is it’s propaganda they’re buying telling them regular legal immigration is illegal.
I saw this take (on YT) just yesterday. The gist: the US has by far the greater military, but NATO without US has much more troops and equipment that are trained and working in harsh cold weather conditions. The US may take some ports and airfields, but small European and Canadian troops can defend the land and make it infeasible for the US to take any meaningful hold.
My cousin works as a geologist for a mining company and I’ve seen the conditions that they have to work in. Often in highly unstable areas with active militia trying to kill them. They have metre thick concrete walls around the perimeter and armed guards. Inside it’s like a small city, and every single person there needs to be there there is no one who’s playing tourist.
Trying to do that in the Arctic is an insane proposition. Concrete doesn’t set well in the cold, the roads are clogged for much of the year, and most industrial mining equipment is extremely sensitive and doesn’t work if it’s out of temperature range, or if it’s too windy, or if you sneeze on it.
Obviously America attacking Greenland would be devastating to global stability but it would almost be worth it to watch the absolute disaster that would be the attempts at resource extraction. It’s just like with Venezuela, no one is actually interested in attempting resource extraction other than Trump. The amount of upfront investment and technical hurdles to overcome are enormous and any profits (assuming there are literally any) are a decade or more away. Unless Greenland is harbouring a otherwise undisclosed vain of diamonds wrapped in 24 carat gold then I can’t imagine it’s going to happen.
I think Trump thinks that when the ice sheets melt it’ll be worth it. That America will suffer in the short term, but have access to a giant archipelago in the long term that’ll secure his legacy as an American hero. Unfortunately for him, his very actions might make it impossible for the US to capitalize on Greenland in any meaningful way.
I genuinely think it’s in the interests of all other powerful countries to stoke regional tensions over the next few decades and break up the union, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s how things go. As much as I hate this country and think the empire needs to be knocked down a few pegs, civil war would not be a good thing. Such a heavily armed country descending into instability would be violent on a never before seen scale, and that violence will not stay in its borders.
I can’t speak to the other issues, but you solve the concrete problem by making concrete shapes off site and shipping them in.
I’ve never been to Greenland but I have been to Iceland quite a few times and trust me the northern ice sheets are not a place for vehicles. Greenland is pretty much all ice sheet and is actually quite a bit further north than Iceland.
Nato has 2 other nuclear powers. One of them has a nuclear first strike warning shot policy.
Pretty sure you had more planes than Vietnam too, yet you still managed to lose that one.
He wouldn’t know, would he
If the United States had to be summed up in one word that would would be “overconfident”.
The level of arrogance that the US government has about its military simply based on its size is profound. Military size would be a highly relevant factor if your enemy was expected to engage on your terms. However for some reason this tends not to be the case and you end up spending the entire war defending your flank.
Look at Iraq, the US government sent thousands and thousands of troops in only for them to huddle in fortifications afraid to go out because of homemade explosives. Why didn’t the massively superior US military simply shoot the enemy combatants. Oh yeah that’s right because they couldn’t find them because the insurgents decided not to engage the US in direct combat. End result, essentially complete defeat.
Some things really never do change
And maaany more.
Funny how many US bases are on foreign soil and exist almost entirely at the pleasure of their host countries. Would be a real shame if all that airforce base infrastructure suddenly disappeared and shortened the tactical operating range of the us airforce.
Krasnov may get a bonus.
Yes. Why would Putin encourage 47 to tilt at windmills. It’s a fucking mystery
But would we just be fighting Denmark or would we end up fighting NATO. Not including former USA NATO member aircraft that’s something more than 10,000 combat aircraft. Which changes things a bit.
Of course they won’t.
The pussy bitch ass dumb fucks who votes for that orange shit stain will slink back to the shadows they crawled from and pretend like they were never a part of it.
Its Bush II all over again. The collective sigh of relief after he was gone. Obama getting elected. All forgotten in the matter of one election cycle.
I miss the days of Keebler elves for President, when at least we weren’t threatening allies or tearing up our constitution and every commitment we made
I’ll fess up that I thought those two things could possibly happen, but I didn’t vote for him on account of the insurrection, fraud, rapes,incompetence, beligerence, etc.
I mean, it wouldn’t be a shooting war. Probably?
What it would be is the greatest diplomatic incident of the century. The United Stakes would steadily become the next Best Korea, like Russia did.
If I defect to greenland and fight do you think Europe would take me?
I mean Ill probably die in a frozen tundra… or I could fight in greenland and make it worth it.
European universities have always been prepared to take in talented American academics who feel that they are being suppressed in the United States. This has been going on for a long time. Particularly in genetics where the US tends to be quite oppressive due to fear of the religious right.
They were equivalent. In the same way dark chocolate and literal shit were. But hey, people gotta virtue signal and not be told what to do. And double down. And protect their cash cows. Just murican things.
