The U.S. is eyeing Greenland while Russia continues to carve up Ukraine. I believe the US will place soldiers on Greenland in an attempt to annex it. I think it will likely happen before Trump’s term ends.
If (hopefully not when) the U.S. pressures Ukraine into accepting a bad deal with both Washington and Moscow for “peace”, will they leverage that outcome—along with the Greenland situation—to further erode European sovereignty?
Europe cannot realistically fend off the US on Greenland? And certainly not while being pressured by both Russia and the US on different fronts? I am so fucking glad Europe got nukes.
There are no checks. There are no balances. There is nothing stopping them…
This isn’t Trump’s vanity - this is the oligarchs, who do not care about nation states, carving up the globe as a resource grab.
The US will annex Greenland. The US will invade Canada. The US will kill protesters, starting with the students.
Concentration camps. Gulags. The disappearing of opponents and mass killings of the undesirables.
Europe will try to unify, but their democracies are already beset by oligarchs, from Putin to Musk, who are financing newly emboldened far-right fringe groups and political candidates.
Europe may rally and pull together.
Or, they may fracture from external pressure and splinter from internal dissention; that is the plan.
less than 5% of Americans support using economic strong-arming, and less than 1% support military force for Greenland or Canada (source below). Annexing is overwhelming unpopular for both conservatives and liberals. The people, including people in the military, will revolt if Trump uses force to annex any country. And the people of Canada and Greenland have made it very very clear: force will be necessary.
No comment from me about the rest. Expectations can be bad but keep them in check.
https://angusreid.org/canada-51st-state-trump/
They don’t seem overly concerned with public opinion or the possibility they might be removed from power by the vote.
likely, they are banking on us to revolt so they can deploy the military domestically.
If the whole thing seems like unchecked expectations - so did the dissolution of NATO prior to 2016.
I could see Trump taking this attitude until he meets his very first encounter with the actual degree of stress he’d have to suffer to execute it.
He would then immediately give up and blame, I don’t know, Egypt or something.
Trump has no willpower or self-regulation skills at all. He is not a planner, a leader, or a strategist. He’s not willing to work, ever, for any reason. A war is beyond his capacity.
And nobody willing to align with him is competent.