US - Greenland Crisis Thread

[Legbiter]

It's 100% real.

[Legbiter]

If my elderly neighbor talked like this I'd make discreet enquiries on whether anyone was looking after him.

[garbon]

If my elderly neighbor talked like this I'd make discreet enquiries on whether anyone was looking after him.

Yes, totally cracked out.

[Sheilbh]

It's 100% real.

Yeah - Shashank Joshi of the Economist says sources confirmed it to him too.

[Legbiter]

The US at this point is a dog that has rabies. Prepare accordingly.

[garbon]

The US at this point is a dog that has rabies. Prepare accordingly.

That doesn't feel like the right analogy given a dog with rabies can be easily put down.

[bogh]

Yeah, more like a heavily armed, incredible rich grizzly bear with rabies.

[Syt]

Yeah, more like a heavily armed, incredible rich grizzly bear with rabies.

[Syt]

If my elderly neighbor talked like this I'd make discreet enquiries on whether anyone was looking after him.

Technically, the US has a provision in case a president is a complete nutcase, but I doubt they will invoke it for "DJT".

[Syt]

Also, if the US had said that with shifting international situation they want to expand their presence on Greenland (military and commercial), I doubt there would have been a hard no on that. Which makes this whole things so silly. I feel it's all about "legacy" for Trump - "This is the Trump Ballroom in the White House", "This is the territorial expansion under Trump" etc. He wants to be in the history books.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Also, if the US had said that with shifting international situation they want to expand their presence on Greenland (military and commercial), I doubt there would have been a hard no on that. Which makes this whole things so silly. I feel it's all about "legacy" for Trump - "This is the Trump Ballroom in the White House", "This is the territorial expansion under Trump" etc. He wants to be in the history books.

He'll be in the history books allright,  as the idiot who squandered us hegemony

[Richard Hakluyt]

I blame the Mercator projection; Greenland is very big but that projection makes it even biglier. Trump fancies a bit of map painting much like one of the denser 12-year-olds playing EU4.

His concept of "winning" is risible; American prestige and power weakens with his every move.

[Maladict]

He'll be in the history books allright,  as the idiot who squandered us hegemony

I was thinking which Roman emperor he resembled most in this respect, but I can't actually think of one that started from a position of relative strength and stability and then threw it all away like Trump has.

[Tamas]

It's 100% real.

Yeah - Shashank Joshi of the Economist says sources confirmed it to him too.

Omfg we are all dead.


Unrelated, completely:

https://youtube.com/shorts/4IcBQJYSfBg?si=uyiCyHW2nLrqu2d9

[Duque de Bragança]

He'll be in the history books allright,  as the idiot who squandered us hegemony

I was thinking which Roman emperor he resembled most in this respect, but I can't actually think of one that started from a position of relative strength and stability and then threw it all away like Trump has.

Nero ?