Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize. Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland.
Think about where this is leading. One possibility, anticipated this morning by financial markets, is a damaging trade war. Another is an American military occupation of Greenland. Try to imagine it: The U.S. Marines arrive in Nuuk, the island’s capital. Perhaps they kill some Danes; perhaps some American soldiers die too. And then what? If the invaders were Russians, they would arrest all of the politicians, put gangsters in charge, shoot people on the street for speaking Danish, change school curricula, and carry out a fake referendum to rubber-stamp the conquest. Is that the American plan too? If not, then what is it? This would not be the occupation of Iraq, which was difficult enough. U.S. troops would need to force Greenlanders, citizens of a treaty ally, to become American against their will.
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Europe for so long as just abdicated action to the US that the are incapable of acting in self interest.
The USA is planning on Europe doing something useless and symbolic like they do every-time the USA doesn’t step in.
They should have stood up to Putin to show they won’t accept war in Europe. They didn’t even stop buying fuel from Russia while Russia started an imperial land war with Europeans. Given how weak the reaction was to Putin, do you think US companies are even worried about a trade disruption?
Is it because this time it’s ‘REAL’ Europeans and not dirty poor Ukrainians? The USA is betting that Europe will complain, boycott, and eventually do business again once the occupation is complete.
The USA is threatening to invade Europe. Why would the US government think Europe would stand up to them? Why would the US congress think any real problem will come from this?