• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know what kind of authority Greenland / Denmark would have to expel all US personnel from Greenland, but given there are US military bases there, I imagine there might be some contractual issues.

    As an alternative, at this point, I think they should be blockading those bases, and searching any vehicle going into or out of it for supply reasons. Also institute a no fly zone over their base so they can’t just air drop stuff in.

    No net new personnel going into the base (staffing swaps maybe… like 1 in 1 out). No new weapons allowed.

    If Trump was going to try something, you don’t want them being able to prep those bases to assist with the assult any more than they already can, and you want them locked down with defences in their pathway before anything starts.

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      I don’t know what kind of authority Greenland / Denmark would have to expel all US personnel from Greenland, but given there are US military bases there, I imagine there might be some contractual issues.

      Ask Cuba how that went.

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    Wonder if conservatives knew they were voting to destroy all America’s allegiances. Or if their brains were incapable of thinking that far ahead.

    I’m gonna go with option 2.

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      1. they don’t know what that word means
      2. they don’t care what that word means
      3. they think america doesn’t need anybody but america
      4. fuck anybody that is not america
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      Most stopped processing after “make America great again”. They really were thinking shit would just magically get great without any care as to the how and for who

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    Apart from all the deflection and Putin and Gilded-Age foreign policy policy theories, which may well be right, I think President Dingleberry also found out that Greenland is 1% larger by area than the Louisiana Purchase, which would make him the president that most embiggened America. How can you you deny MAGA if he literally made it greater (in size) than any president prior to him?

    It’s also possible he has only ever looked at a Mercator and thinks Greenland is literally the size of Africa or South America.

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    Change my mind: Literally zero people want Greenland to be part of the US except Donald Trump and the people who have trained themselves to always agree with Donald Trump.

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      They don’t even have a fucking reason. Oh, it is an important strategic location? Good thing we already have a base there!

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      The people who have trained Donald Trump to agree with them. They want oil, minerals, land, etc.

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      I believe the accelerationists want Greenland to join the US. Those guys are eager to see a nuclear war kick off.

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      Greenland is the suicide capital of the world.

      I’m pretty sure a lot of people are instinctively against US acquisition because they’ve been trained to think colonialism is always bad and what Trump does is always wrong.

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        Looking at history, colonialism has always been bad for the indigenous people.

        Similary looking at history, what Trump does has always been wrong.

        Also fuck you, if you think you know better whats good for Greenland than people who live in there.

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        they’ve been trained to think colonialism is always bad

        There isn’t a single colonial project that was/is benevolent. So yes, colonialism is always bad. Also fuck off with the “acquisition” euphemism. What the USA is proposing is simply stealing somebody else’s land.

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        Greenland is the suicide capital of the world

        You wanna pump those numbers up by subjecting them to US health care?

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        Are you actually arguing that the US should take Greenland? What in the actual fuck?

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        Trump may not always be wrong but it’s certainly in the high majority of things he does. Currently I can’t think of anything he has done that is actually positive.

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    Ffs. . . Putin is giggling in glee at the payoff from his agent in the White House, and all the time/effort spent on troll farms and blackmail.

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      Same with China, as Russia and US fuck around with this stupid shit, China’s going ham on Large Scale clean/free Energy, Chip Design, Robotics and Space Exploration…

      World is getting smaller, and goof thinks Greenland is going to be some kind of magical barrier?

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      I mean sure, that is a large part of how we got here, but I honestly wonder if this still plays any role right now. A month ago the media called him unhinged, he’s gone beyond that now and is just unwell. Not that I have a shred of empathy.

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    The only reason Trump is doing this is to get the USA out of NATO for Putin. The reason he works for Putin is because Putin has some very compromising pictures and videos of Trump, involving children and possibly pee

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      The only reason Trump is doing this is to deflect everyone’s attention from the Epstein file fiasco. The diversionary war theory is a real thing.

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      The pee tape, the prostitutes peeing on him in a russian hotel room? I often hear this, it must be real

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        It should be clear by now no one will hold him accountable for anything he’s done

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          Yeah, Putin could release 100% verifiably true proof that Trump rapes kids every Tuesday… And nothing would change. Trump would continue raping kids every Tuesday, while republicans circle the wagons, Trump fires any investigators who try to dig into it, and maybe the democrats would write some strongly worded letters (to be read by nobody). Fox News would report that it’s all a hoax made up by the evil dems (if they reported on it at all) and Trump’s voters would believe every word of it.

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    We have an authoritarian dictator in the white house surrounded by constant drip adderall’d sycophants. Most of us are scraping the barrel to get by because we are overworked and paid shit.

    This is all by design. We are just expendable peons to them.

    Tech bro billionaires getting unlimited investment for AI and other nonsense are working on plans for Greenland.

    Wake the fuck up people. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

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      Wake the fuck up people. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

      Nothing meaningful will change until that statement is more true than it is now. The reality is that most of us are still comfortable enough to not want to risk what we’ve got.