Hear me out. The title of the screenplay is Revenge of the Danes. It's the story of a plucky squadron of frigates and gunboats in the Royal Danish Navy who use a combination of high technology and good old-fashioned ingenuity to sneak up on the US military base on Greenland. The Americans fight back bravely, but in the end they're subdued and the Danes take over. Soon everything goes dark. NORAD is missing its most crucial early warning site and the Pentagon is in chaos. This goes on for 24 hours, along with attempted escapes by the American captives and a romantic subplot between the Danish mission commander and a beautiful American astrophysicist. Finally, Donald Trump gives in to the Danish demands: He appears on television and publicly promises to never bother Greenland again. Everyone celebrates with a nice plate of warm aebleskiver.
In Revenge of the Danes 2: The Pølsa Diktat four nuclear-armed US supercarrier groups descend on Copenhagen. But it turns out the Danes still have a few tricks up their sleeve....
What do you think? Box office boffo?
Given our new DoD boss, the part about pentagon chaos fits
Yeah, throw in a drunken pretty-boy SecDef who can't run the department competently to save his life, and have him suffer a 1980s teen-comedy-style humiliation at the end of the movie!
He will do OK if all he does is do the ceremonial duties and doesn't meddle with how the place runs. If he staffs with Project 2025 types the pentagon will become chaos city.
The population of Greenland is 60,000.
If Trump really wants Greenland a deal is definitely possible at an affordable price - just make an offer of a few hundred K to a million dollars to each Greenlander.
That would be a hard deal for them to refuse.
Interesting how stupid people assume everyone else is just as stupid.
I don't think that is fair. Kevin is not stupid but he has a mild case of TDS.
And here you are proving him right. great job! 👍
It's so weird that a racist little pissant like you just can't take a hint. Go. Fuck. Yourself. You're not wanted here.
Buy a Trump bible. Take it home. Read it. Then choke on it and stop wasting air.
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Greenland should agree to an exorbitant price but demand the funds are paid by Donald and President Musk, personally.
Why should Greenland care who pays?
If Trump and Musk pay personally (in Trump Coin and DOGE?) then they works presumably own Greenland. Idea is to add Greenland to the US.
Trump coin? ROTFL. Why not in Lego blocks. Atleast they are tangible and worth something other than hype surrounding a worthless hype man.
Marcy Wheeler suggested the Danes get $100 billion, a downpayment, just to start negotiations about Greenland.
Then Denmark uses it to start hiring all the scientists whose NIH grants were frozen.
"Steal America's scientific expertise while Trump is yelling at icebergs".
+1.
This may in fact all just be about Novo Nordisk's trade surplus with the United States. Trump HATES trade deficits.
Angry guy on internet wakes up each day to discover what new opinion Donny has given him to take on as his own. Imagine going thru the year never having to form your own thoughts. Just repeat what youre given. Tomorrow something new will come downstream and you will eagerly absorb and transmit.
what a life
lol. Your fan boy attitude is humorous if it weren't so pathetic.
Hummm, TFBS (Trump Fan Boy Syndrome). Yep, it’s definitely a thing and MF has it.
Yup. It would sure be nice if this blog had some means to indicate approval or disapproval of a comment without writing another one.
Like a little thumbs up/down thingie.
Better -- far better -- a "Block" button.
I have a lot of friends in Iceland who fear, once Trump really realizes what Greenland is like, he will turn his attention to Iceland, where there really are enough tourists, hotels, restaurants, and car-rental places to support a casino. Plus cheap electricity, so long as the Svartsengi power plant survives the shield volcano beneath it.
Icelanders have longed feared a 2nd American occupation.
Next time you fly though Keflavik Airport, spend a day or two and make sure you visit the museum in the town of Keflavik.
To be honest, this has the feel of the Game of Risk, and Trump plans on owning the Americas, and views Greenland as a part of that land mass.
What he really needs to get to win is Kamchatka.
After six casino bankruptcies you want to give donnie another chance at bankrupting a casino? What do you think that would do to Kef?
Don't stop at Casinos. Remember the airline and the university.
I heard a rumor that his interest in Greenland was that, with a new airport there, it would be a good place to build a casino. I also saw that he sent Don Jr. there to scope it out, and they sent him packing. Didn't even let him go shoot a baby seal first, let alone a polar bear.
Hence the worries I've heard from friends in Iceland that they will be next on his radar: after all, like the Panama Canal, Americans built KEF. (That's what I recommended visiting the museum for, it has a great exhibit on the American Occupation of Iceland during WWII, before the nation got its freedom.)
Well, geophysically, it is.
But of course that's no reason to claim it.
Please don't feed the troll. It only leaves its droppings to get attention. Starve the troll.
There's less people living on the Hopi reservation. Do you think your buyout trick would to convince all of them to leave their homes?
Hint: the answer is no.
MF: How much would your mom ask to kick you out of her basement?
Before that could happen, Trump would need to squeeze an appropriation out of Congress. It's doubtful that an appropriation for the purpose of bribing the Greenlanders would pass either the House or the Senate; there are still a few Republican Congresspeople who think for themselves.
Why is Trump obsessed with Greenland? Ignoring my oft-stated belief that it's a mistake to expect Trump to act from rational motives, I tentatively conclude that he sees this as a metaphorical casus belli with the rest of NATO ( or "with NATO", as he would put it, never acknowledging any US responsibility for the actions of organisations of which it is the most influential member). We've been told he wants to withdraw from NATO. But he needs an excuse that might satisfy the dwindling number of Lindsey Grahams in his party. What could be better than "NATO doesn't work because the Europeans won't even agree to a common sense move like ceding Greenland to me!"?
Why the obsession? Because in his tiny brain nothing surpasses a great real estate deal. Greenland is bigger than Alaska. Trump would ever after be know as the most stablest of all genuises. And that's sayin' a lot!
And on a Mercator projection it's really really big. Yuge in fact.
If the US could get Greenland, that would bump it from the world's fourth biggest country in area to the second biggest, still over 2 million square miles smaller than Russia. Trump is obsessed with size, so that's a complete explanation all by itself.
"We've been told he wants to withdraw from NATO. But he needs an excuse"
And, no, sorry, no he does not need an excuse.
In his bitching about NATO, I don't know if Trump said it outright but before debating his love of Putin or adequate member contributions-
How do you have an alliance that buys its energy from the enemy???
Trump thinks alliances are for "suckers" so, sure, he disdains NATO. But he needs no new rationale for that: he's long maintained they're free riding off the US and so the financial burden isn't worth it. Also, the sad reality is NATO is probably already dead, for all intents and purposes. It's just that nobody wants to acknowledge it yet (does anybody seriously think Trump would send US forces to defend Latvia if that country were attacked by Russia? The question answers itself).
I believe the explanation for Greenland is far simpler: (1) it's a big territory (far bigger in Trump's mind because of the Mercator projection), (2) he knows it belongs to a small country that can't realistically stand up to US pressure if the latter is sufficiently ruthless, (3) and so he senses easy pickings that will transform him into Donald the Great.
He's a bully, and like all bullies he only picks on the weak. His attitude toward Canada and Denmark is the exact opposite of his attitude toward Russia and China.
He's also an increasingly cognitively-impaired simpleton: the Greenland thing is like something out of a bad 1980s comedy or even Mad Magazine. Only the joke's on us.
The Mouse that Roared ?
With Hegseth in charge, they would not need an air raid drill to win!
I wonder if the US military would obey the law and refuse the (obviously unlawful) order to invade Greenland.
/s
The prediction that NATO is dead or dying assumes it can't survive without the US. That is by no means obvious; in fact, I would say it's obviously false.
It's one of his new shiney object obsessions. Plus he's a huge narcasist who thinks he can do anything and surrounds himself with sychophants who reinforce this delusion.
He can turn around and flip it to Russia and his friend Putin. Think of the massive personal payoff he and his oligarchs will get from their Russian counterparts.
Interesting idea, but I think this is more about Trump's more base motivations --- self-aggrandizement, narcissism, and pursuing his own half-baked "great ideas" (like The Wall). Dude just sees too many Mercator maps and thinks how great it would be if I, Donald Trump, added that HUUUUUGE chunk of Greenland to the US, I would be acclaimed as a great man by history books!"
Maybe Trump thinks he's The Tick.
"Destiny is a funny thing. Once I thought I was destined to become Emperor of Greenland, sole monarch over its 52,000 inhabitants. Then I thought I was destined to build a Polynesian longship in my garage. I was wrong then, but I’ve got it now. I’m the destined protector of this place. I’m this City’s superhero."
I'm willing for him to find out if he's indestructible.
If Czechoslovakia was able to make a deal on Sudetenland with Hitler, I see absolutely no reason Denmark can't make a deal involving Greenland with Trump.
Cute
One of these days someone is going to call Trump's bluff. And then he's going to have to make a choice, back down, or commit to using force, which I cannot wait to see the "antiwar," do so. Remember, he inherited the Afghan War, and the the ISIS war, he didn't start them.Any military conflict now is purely on his own accord. Big difference
He'll come up with an excuse as to why he can't. His cult will believe whatever shit that comes out of his mouth. His sychophants will reinforce the shitty excuse turning a failure into a success through utter nonsense. Again because his cult will believe anything.
My feeling is that he can’t lose on this. If Greenland gets “purchased” by the U.S. he wins. If Denmark and Greenland agree to more bases, etc. (which they would have anyway) he will say that’s what he really wanted all the time and this was just a great negotiating tool. Same thing will work with Panama. His fan boys will celebrate their Leader and his genius.
Yeah, the funny thing is if he wanted more bases there (we do not need them, but whatever), all he had to do was ask. The Danes are very good allies and certainly would agree, assuming we promised to do reasonable stuff like not trash the place....
his fan boys don't know and don't care. even if the garbageman falls on his face and looks like a total fool that he is, they'll still be fan boys and he'll be their demigod as if nothing happened.
Well, he's been 'normalized'.
https://bsky.app/profile/nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Which post were you pointing at?
Thumbs up.
The people of Sudetenland wanted to be part of Germany. The Greenlanders, observing the fate of Guam/Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands adamantly oppose being part of the US.
No, they didn't.
If Hitler had been satisfied with the Sudetenland deal, the whole thing might have stopped there and the Fuhrer would have enjoyed a long life and dictatorship over an expanded Germany. But it was only about six months later that Hitler decided he wanted the whole thing and annexed greater Czechoslovakia.
That was the true beginning of Hitler's downfall, according to the excellent biography by Volker Ullrich.
Box office boffo for sure.
Is Greenland (or Canada) going to get two Senators and a congressperson? Will be interesting when the Rs figure out how that’s going to play out.
It'll be a territory with no representation.
Greenland would just be a conquered territory mit Gauleiter. You think the MAGAts would allow 60,000 overwhelmingly indigenous people to elect two senators and a congressperson who would almost certainly be indigenous and Democratic? This conquest may actually happen--I can easily see Drumpf triumphantly sending a few thousands troops to occupy Greenland, rename it Trumpland, and dare the Danes or NATO to do something about it. Like beating up a smaller, younger kid for his lunch money, this is catnip for bullies. Those who poo poo this (like I'm sure Kevin does) really need to take a good hard look at who is ruling this country now.
As for Canada (which unlike Greenland ain't happening, of course), WTF should they come into the Union as another ridiculously underrepresented California? It should join as roughly a baker's dozen of states (corresponding to it's current provinces and territories) or something close. Actually, I wouldn't be adverse to this for a number of reasons, but since I assume the large majority of senators and congresspersons would be Democratic the MAGAts ain't letting this happen. And anyhow, Canadians would have to dumber than Drumpf voters to join the US voluntarily.
The Canadian territories are territories because they don't have enough population to be viable provinces; they wouldn't be viable states either. However, they do have federal representation; one MP each. Probably, Prince Edward Island with a population of 158,000 would not be acceptable as a state either. The other nine Canadian provinces all have populations larger than Wyoming and so can be states.
As you say, it ain't happening, but IF Canada joined the US I would expect that Prince Edward Island would be merged with New Brunswick and Canada would join as nine states and three territories.
Canada would get 49 delegates
(probably a 41-8 democrat, republican split), with most states losing between 5 (California) to 1 delegate each. Obviously the states presently with 1 delegate would make out like bandits.
Well, this seems like the obvious smart liberal reply.
"Aren't we constantly told that America is a 'constitutional republic'? Can't be a republic without representation, so I guess Greenland gets two senators and a rep and Canada also gets two senators and a bunch of reps."
The Roman Republic didn't give representation to all of its provinces.
Perhaps you should talk to the people of Puerto Rico, or the Northern Marianas, or any of the other American territories.
Another interesting datapoint from the black community. Smith (ESPN) is a jackass, but there you go. Democrats don’t speak to him. 😂
During Friday’s appearance on Maher’s show, he scolded liberals for choosing not to campaign on issues that the American people were most concerned about, while admitting that Trump did, and was the closer candidate to the center of the political spectrum. “Here’s the deal: the man was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said, ‘He’s closer to normal than what we see on the left,’” Smith said.
“I think that in light of those results we have to look at this election as a referendum on the Democratic Party. And America’s saying we’re not feeling where you are, we’re not feeling where you tried to go, we want no part of it, we’re not having it – and they made their choice and we all have to accept it,” he said.
People don’t like democrats. Even the people we claim to help don’t like democrats. It’s curious. Maybe we should stop giving a flip about them.
Trump won the plurality of the popular vote by 1.3%. And that margin can easily be explained by the sketchiness of changing candidates after the primaries were over. This is only the second time since 1988 that the republicans have beaten the democrats in the popular vote. So all of your claims are mind boggling stupid.
I think the more interesting question is why do so man americans have no problem with the republicans telling lies so stupid they insult the intelligence of your average 2 year old but crucify democrats for the smallest lies imaginable.
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Or maybe it's a good time to, as they say, get out of town for a while, and let the GOP run things for a while...see what they can do
So you think some sports guy knows what Americans want, and knows what Democrats campaigned on?
What average American is guilty of dozens of financial felonies?
C'mon. This doesn't even pass the sniff test, and yet you post it here like it does.
He got under half of all votes - and only 30% of eligible voters to vote for him.
Stop calling yourself "a Democrat".
Adderall addict under the further influence of a ketamine addict acts irrationally? Who could have imagined, and stuff.
Needs alien space ship the American base has spent five decades carefully chipping out of the ice the brash Danish pilot can just jump into and fly off in, so altering the balance of power on Earth the American military is scared away and cowers on their side of the Atlantic.
Democrats are not popular. Democratic programs are popular. Why?
Could it be because there is a giant propaganda machine set to the purpose of slandering and demeaning Democrats all day every day. Spewing lies such as "they are eating cats and dogs" and "your kid goes to school and comes back with a gender change".
These are not exaggerations. They are bald-faced lies. And in lots of forums, they go unchallenged, because of the nature of both television and social media.
This is the problem we have to solve to keep a functioning democracy.
Yes.
+1 to emjayay's Yes, as demonstrated by the post above yours.
I say that Lincoln was wrong. "The mystic chords of memory" have long-since broken and have now unraveled into meaningless clumps of fuzz.
It's time for the hard-working states to cut the Meth-heads off and watch them slowly sink into the rising seas.
Will Revenge of the Danes be shot in English or Danish? I hate subtitles.
Well, since Anglish is sloppy Danish raped and ravished by alien words from all over the world, it might not be too hard to understand. But what about that dorky "o" with a line through it ("ø") Who came up with that?
[Rhetorical question: Wikipedia says "the Sami"]
A language that carries it's diacritical markings on the outside of it's clothing is not serious.
"It's the story of a plucky squadron of frigates and gunboats in the Royal Danish Navy who use a combination of high technology and good old-fashioned ingenuity to sneak up on the US military base on Greenland." The US base ha a grand total of 140 US troops stationed there (an additional 60 Canadian and Danish troops assigned to the US) and 450 contractors. Most are radar technicians and air traffic control specialists. It wouldn't take a squadron of boats, a single one would be sufficient. In fact, with Canada's cooperation, they could take over the air base simply by sneaking in loyal contractors (there are 400 of them.) This would actually be better as the base is accessible by sea for only ~1 month a year.
You would make a terrible movie scriptwriter.
Movies need to be made on a budget!
Wasn't that more or less the plot of "The Mouse That Roared"?
bingo
Make it a comedy, with American troops being commanded by a drunken SecDef, the Greenlanders displaying dogsled superiority, not to mention skiing better, Greenland's indigenous people serving as "code talkers", American weaponry freezing up in the cold, and throw in a bunch of "man to man" phone calls between the Russian leader and the American leader, who should be mercilessly caricatured. Make the leaders of Greenland and Denmark do-right heroic and Nordic good looking.
The cheesy romance angle won't actually be necessary if this is done right. Maybe add in some nuclear brinksmanship ... and over the brinksmanship. With errors, like Heggy accidently targeting DC.
Mar-a-lago would be a better target.
Good point! Or any other tRumpy estate. Maybe ALL of 'em! In an unstoppable sequence!
Agreed about the Disney princess palace at MaL, but the Greenlanders should look like what they are, heroic Inuits.
If, push comes to shove, Denmark should sell it to Canada, who have a better claim anyway. And they offer a decent health insurance system. Not to mention treaties with first nations. Much better fit.
Can't wait for t-Rump to be gone. Copied from FB
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
Probably the single best summation of Trump's bottomless pit of worthlessness I've ever read.
I think it was written back in Regime One. However:
"Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are."
They aren't. Mostly.
Whereas in America, we've become the opposite.
For example, from Ad Age:
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"In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump."
Haha, perfect.
Awesome. Correct in every observation.
+100!
And this was after we Americans elected him once, only by the grace of the electoral college. Now, he 's gotten a plurality of the popular vote, too.
Putting us Americans pretty close to the Convict Chief's level.
The empowerment of psychotic blathering should be classified as a national security threat everywhere.
No....DON"T LICK THE FLAGPOLE!!!!
I think that Hegseth should personally lead the attack, with troops made up of paroled 1/6 patriots (especially those convicted of violent assault of police), Neo Nazi's, white supremist, the KKK, the Proud Boys, and other able bodied male goose stepping MAGA supporters.
Of course they would need to wait until Hegseth stops drinking.
The Hamas version of this story was not well received by critics from the establishment press but popular in the Global South.
‘Move closer to Europe – not Trump’ voters tell Starmer in major UK poll,
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/25/move-closer-to-europe-not-trump-voters-tell-starmer-in-major-uk-poll
Trump will get Greenland. And I hate to say it, but it'll give him a legacy.
Basically I think he's so above the law now, he figures he doesn't need to pretend to be lawful anymore and can steal any stuff he wants. With Canada I doubt it'll work, with Panama not easily, but Greenland yes. It's protected by tiny Denmark which isn't even liked up there. And count on the Democrats to make life nice for Greenlanders once they're inside the USA. Those won't protest all that much. They need a protector state anyway. Fifty years from now people won't care about how it precisely happened. They'll erect statues of the man who put the stars and stripes over Greenland. Echoes of Ewo Jima.
Donald Trump is the most loathsome creature I have had the misfortune to hear of, but his conquest, acquisition or stealth of Greenland will alas give him a place in history. Now that the ball is rolling I don't see what can stop it.
Trump will get Greenland.
I don't think so. Greenlanders don't want to become part of the United States, and there's little or no support for transferring Greenland to the US in the Danish parliament (which is constitutionally required).
Seriously, how is this supposed to happen? I doubt even Donald Trump can pull off the neat trick of getting the Pentagon to plan an execute a plainly illegal war of conquest, and also get the necessary legislation through Congress to legalize an annexation.
The whole thing is bonkers.
"Greenlanders don't want to become part of the United States". True, but no one offered them any advantages yet. Also, it's not true that constitutional changes are required, see Wikipedia under "Danish Realm": "Greenlandic independence does not require a constitutional change; instead, should Greenland become independent, the rules in the constitution regarding Greenland becomes [sic] void." IOW Greenland would have to go through an independent phase but I think that's part of the plan anyway.
Also, it's not true that constitutional changes are required
Correct. I made no claim to the contrary. What is required, though, is the accession of Denmark's parliament.
Greeneland? Bobertiskan? Vancelandia?
Nope is MUST be Trumpland
Heck Mount Rushmore has no more "carve -able" stone left on it so his "facade" won't go up there - so he's got to secure his world wide legacy somehow
Yep - he'll get a lifetime of royalties for lending his name to this new country. Not to mention his name in every geography book printed and every map drawn after he succeeds!
Naming rights and royalties? God what a great world we live in eh?
The Felon's gambit has already achieved its purpose, it is another squirrel to distract everyone from the important stuff. That is the plan, release 50 squirrels, sow confusion, keep the opposition from coalescing on anything to gain power.
My hope is that any strongarm tactics against Denmark will help unite the EU (and UK) against Mango Mussolini, just like Putin helped with the enlargement of NATO and has increased military spending by many members.
My fear is that the Orange Shit Stain with the help of Putin could destroy NATO by a Russian invasion of some former Soviet NATO member, like Lithuania, and Trump refusing to honor Article 5.
Not just Europe. This is a very scary moment for Taiwan, too.
Greenland is in no danger. The feckless Trump could never put together a path to acquiring Greenland. The people living there would have to be on board, and they aren’t.
You are right about Taiwan. This is China's best chance to attack Taiwan and get no American military response. Bully Trump is a baby in reality. Ordering US forces to attack Chinese forces in defense of Taiwan? No way in hell. To deflect criticism, I can imagine Trump even saying, well Taiwan deserved it.
I expect that the Pentagon would go rogue if China moves against Taiwan and the ROC's look like they're going to lose. Ker-pow! to all the chip fabs.
Ever throw your dog the invisible stick? Do that a few times and the dog catches on.
The people who vote for conservatives never do.
I think "Trump's Greenland gambit" is insane and the sane response to it is to not take it seriously. Kudos to Kevin. That's said, it a sign of the times that many conversations going on now appear to be taking the so-called pros and cons with a certain amount of seriousness. This is the power of Trump's insanity. It spreads like a contagion.
Imagine you live in your home for many years. A new neighbor moves in next door. You see the new neighbor looking over the fence one day with envy in his eye. He tells you he likes your place, wants to buy it. You says thanks, but it's not for sale. The neighbor says, "If you don't want to sell it, I'll just take it. I'm richer and I have a posse that's armed to the teeth." How do you feel about that?
That's the situation the Danes and Greenlanders are in, and the situation we are in. The US under Trump is the rich new neighbor who says he'll take whatever he wants.
If you want, you can find analogs in the history of nations, which is why the world has evolved to a new international order that respects the sovereignty of nations. The ultimate enforcer of that order has been the United States. If the US flips its role, all hell breaks loose. Then it becomes not such a laughing matter.
Indeed. A founding principle of the UN is the renunciation of forcible changes to national borders — which is exactly what justifies sanctions against Russia and support for Ukraine.
Not a lot of sea room in the North Sea for four...
and the Kattegat and the Skagerrak are literally strangulating....
This post is the result of a bout of insomnia and extreme boredom, right? It's fairly pointless.
Trump decides to send an entire ethnic group to concentration camps. Then he attacks Denmark, triggering an automatic allied NATO response. But he's got folks in his axis, like Russian, China, and North Korean. A World War happens. Trump firebombs Dresden and nukes London. Hilarity ensues.
So how does NATO respond if sanctions and a forced sale fail to secure Greenland and Trump orders the US military to seize it?
And what happens to US citizens working and traveling in Europe? Or EU citizens working, studying or traveling here?