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Consequences... I mean yeah, if you want to see things negatively. Personally, I prefer not to hold perspectives rooted in negativity.
Well, if you actually watched the videos, you would find that the U.S. does not need NATO for anything. They actually desperately need us. Otherwise, their entire system crumbles. Which is why the reasonable nations are willing to work with Trump. Heck, at the WEF, he pretty much looked at the room and said, "Everyone here has either been liberated by, or defeated by, the United States." For the sake of globalism, you are now too weak to even protect your own backyard. Now, once again, we have to play your bodyguard. But it won't be free, nor will it be cheap. So give us Greenland, and we will take care of the rest, so you can continue to flaunt your social programs because we are flipping the bill for your defense."
Yes, consequences. Markets were tanking, again, and USAs traditional allies have lost fundamental trust in the nation as a whole that is not coming back anytime soon. You have literally gained nothing with this method that you couldn't have otherwise. But you've certainly lost things you otherwise wouldn't have.
Because for decades, the world has taken kindness for weakness. And the U.S. nolonger cares about what Europe thinks when their heads are shoved so far up their "blessings not curses" that they can no longer recognize that they are their own worst enemy.
They are just repeating what the media told them to think.
Well, they're acting like Trump committed another Holocaust, when all he did was talk.
Well, he has always been about keeping all cards on the table. Even if a forceful invasion is a card that is far removed from the stack in case of an emergency. The problem is that our European allies are so weak that just having that card still on the table causes them to crumble and concede. Why? Because they brought ir on themselves.
Complete liberal emotional hyperbole intended to radicalize their voting base. Completely void of actual facts. Mark my words, if Greenland becomes a U.S. state, there would be no bloodshed except by the hardened leftist playing the "useful idiots" in their attempt to oppose Trump.
And then backed down on that threat. You know this as a fact.
He said he'd take Greenland by any means. And when asked, he refused to rule out using force. So it has been an option.
This is just crazy....
He no longer felt the threat was necessary because the threat accomplished what he wanted, a seat at the negotiation table. The texts from the PM of Finland proved it and even Italy is willing to help facilitate it. So who actually backed down?
If Trump splits NATO by annexing Greenland, then he loses the current NATO advantages in the Atlantic gap. He can attempt to counter this by deploying extra naval assets to make up for the lost NATO assets but these would no longer have the land anchors of UK and Norway thus America will be more vulnerable. Thus he opens an alternate route to the one from Greenland for an attack on the USA and increases the cost of US defence at the same time. Building Golden Dome, with Greenland as a part of it, will not counter the threat of a Tsunami bomb in the North Atlantic. Your just saying no does not refute this fact and is a matter of wishful thinking.
So now you think they will take this childish buffoonery as strength?
Of course they're not going to tell the unstable guy with a huge military and nuclear weapons that he's damaging his country's relationship with them. But we can still observe the way that countries are responding to Trump and America in general, and compare that to the past. There is no question that America's relationship with the rest of the world has been damaged significantly by Trump. Perhaps it will not be permanent - we'll see what happens in three years, after his term is up - but unless there are significant changes in our national attitude and/or our electoral system, they're always going to have to operate with the idea that another Trump-like leader could assume the presidency in the future.
I don't think that's true. if a Democrat like Gavin Newsom were elected president next, I don't think anyone will see him, or the U.S as coersive anymore.
