Senate Republicans are vowing to block any effort by Trump to seize Greenland by military force, as Trump officials on Wednesday refused to back off their demands to control the island during a meeting with top diplomats at the White House.
Republican senators are flummoxed by Trump’s insistence that he’s willing to use military force to seize control of Greenland from Denmark, something they fear will destroy the NATO alliance and give Russia a bigger advantage in its war against Ukraine.
Two Republican senators, Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), plan to travel to Copenhagen on Friday to assure the Danish prime minister that there would be strong Republican opposition to any effort by Trump to use military force to seize Greenland.
Random trivia:
In WW2 Greenland rejected Danish sovereignty because the nazis had captured the Danish government.
The US stepped up and filled the vacuum so that Canada, Norway, or anyone else would claim it, then just let them go back to the Danes after WW2.
Anyways, that’s why Greenland has been so cool with US military bases, and we just threw all of that goodwill away.
This will result in a lower US presence over there for decades, if it ever comes back.
It’s really breathtaking just how quickly the American hegemony was dismantled.
Yes and no… It literally took decades of meticulous propaganda and division sowing from online Russian (and other) operations, gradually increasing the divide, funding the fringiest groups, boosting the NRA, corrupting every forum, comment section and thread with bots, blackmailing every pedo they could find into going into politics and then backing other pedos… It took a lot of hard work for Putin’s wet dream to come to fruition like this! (I’m gonna puke)
Not really…
Our one advantage was we were one of a handful of industrialized nations whose manufacturing power wasn’t bombed to hell and back.
Plus, we still sent a shitton of young men to die, so after the war we had a small labor pool which is why factory workers could get a job at 16 and retire at 60 with a full pension.
But our population rebounded, workers became cheap, and then we just sent all of our manufacturing overseas to help corporate profits.
This was always going to happen eventually, it seems sudden but the process has been going on for 40 years at least. Like, it’s been ending for as long as it was going on at this point, there’s nothing quick about it.
And heartwarming