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.
Given that the Republicans just voted to allow Trump to unilaterally wage war in Venezuela, I have my doubts.
TBF, attacking Venezuela like we did has a lot of historical precedent. The US has a long history of deposing inconvenient Latin American leaders.
But engaging in an unprovoked war of conquest against one of our oldest allies? Collapsing our most important defensive alliance? This is an entirely different animal. There’s no precedent for an invasion of Greenland.
I thought the other times were CIA special ops where they “plane-crashed” some leaders for not allowing corporate plunder.
Exactly. The US has a history of making inconvenient Latin American leaders disappear. The means vary, but the impact is the same.
When was the last time we violently deposed a Western European head of state?
Hitler?
Hitler declared formal war upon the US.