The United States is a global superpower, and its military trains for war in every domain. During my years as a military educator, I saw American officers wrestle with any number of scenarios designed to challenge their thinking and force them to adapt to surprises. One case we never considered, however, was how to betray and attack our own allies. We did not ask what to do if the president becomes a threatening megalomaniac who tells one of our oldest friends, Norway, that because the Nobel Committee in Oslo refuses to give him a trophy, he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of Peace” and can instead turn his mind toward planning to wage war against NATO.
As my colleague Anne Applebaum wrote today, Donald Trump’s threatening message to the Norwegian prime minister should, in any responsible democracy, force the rest of the U.S. political system to act to control him. The president is talking about an invasion that would require “citizens of a treaty ally,” as she put it, “to become American against their will,” all because he “now genuinely lives in a different reality.” And yet neither Congress nor the sycophants in the White House seem willing to stop him.
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The terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies involves the US giving up all claims and intents on the island of Greenland as part of the deal that saw the US gain the Virgin Islands.
So there is a 109ish year old law.
I only wish treaties were upheld as laws are but we have a long history of treaties being broken and no trial took place other than a trial of arms. If only we had an international court, unanimously agreed upon by the nations of the world.
One of the core reasons I’m positive the US is irredeemably cooked is that “liberals” continue to believe that the rule of law applies to a fascist oligarchy who has ignored and violated the greatest laws of the land; not just recently, but for most of their lives.
The 50+ year corporate-fascist-alliance coup is in it’s final hours, yet still. Remember, the Democrats didn’t release the Epstein files either, because they’re financed by the same sociopathic/psychopathic pedophile elite.
Someone asked for an illegal order, one was provided and you didn’t read the context and instead pretended people think the rules existing means they cannot be broken.