Global News

Where is his suit? Does he not respect the office? /s

USA does not intend to do a good damn thing for people in Greenland.

Absolutely right. These tiny "buy european"-protest are great, but won't change anything. We're too few. The EU needs to step up against these imperialist yokels. Should he get Greenland by force, nothing would happen. He could just do it and he knows.

I remain convinced this is the beginning of Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia.

Frensh nukes in greenland maybe.

<...> when did he become yet another warmonger president?

He always was. You must be living under the rock to believe that lie.

Syria attacks in 2019, drones strikes in 2020, failure to leave Afghanistan in 2020.

Not sure if this is sarcasm but if you're serious, you fell for propaganda because Trump has been a warmongering asshole the entire time.

That last sentence gives me the sad notion you actually thought he might do some good. He was never ever going to do anything good or anything he promised to the public.

To be fair even without distortion it's still huge.

An interesting take. Read somewhere that the reason Trump want's Greenland and Canada is so the US is bigger geographical than Russia. Was said as a semi-joke. But at this point I'm not ruling anything out.

This absolutely is a reasonable explanation why Putin had such an easy time convincing him.

No, it’s more to do with securing the arctic corridor as climate change opens up new areas for exploitation.

Greenland has an incredibly high proportion of indigenous, so not vikings. It also lacks much foliage at all, much less dense foliage. And it has a relatively tiny population.

That said, a war of raw imperial acquisition would launch the US into a civil war before a soldier set foot on Greenlandic soil i think. And, yes, I recognize that there is a base already there.

Greenland has less than 60.000 inhabitants. That will be difficult

While it does take an act of congress to declare a war, the US has deployed troops, at the direction of the president, in all sorts of engagements for decades without declaring war. The last time Congress declared war was WW2. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and so much more were directed by the president.

Yes, the executive branch under MAGA control will abide by rules and norms, obey the law, respect institutions, and heed court rulings. Checks and balances are holding strong!

We are safe from Fascism, so don’t worry!

They don’t have to define it as a war. Previous administrations have opened the route of not declaring war but still engaging in boots on the ground assaults. The precedent has been set, long before he entered office, and reinforced by every modern president.

There are no rules anymore.

I recall Prez can deploy troops for up to 100 days or some bs. I remember my elementary teacher saying its rare congress wouldn't extend operation.