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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.
Listen, NATO only exists because of the U.S.. This goes all the way back to the the Marshal plan in which the U.S. practically rebuilt Europe under the umbrella protection of the U.S. after WWII. Since then, Europe has been complacent in their defense because NATO just assumed that we were just always going to cover their [blessings not curses] every time they started something. So Trump make a speech and reminded the entire western world that in the last 100 years, we have either liberated you or defeated you. Furthermore, we have invested 22 Trillion dollars since 1980 to protect you and have gotten little to nothing in return. Because of their self-imposed domestic issues, our NATO allies are not even capable of protecting their borders from a Muslim invasion. The only exception is Poland. Bottom line, NATO just got blasted in the face with a stark reminder as to why the U.S. does not enjoy the luxury of universal Healthcare, and it is because we are militarily covering their butts.
So again, you agree that he made the threat. An unbelievable action by Trump, to insinuate that he would invade another country and take it by force. If this was a chapter in some dystopian novel of a crazy near future then I'd think that the author had lost the plot. Why aren't you ashamed?
Again, you aren't recognising reality. All other countries wanted a diplomatic solution. You know, like normal people in power look to do. And which DIDN'T include anyone taking over the country. What news outlets are you reading that says anything different? And facilitate what? You have no idea If anyone has agreed to anything and if so what it could possibly be. What it won't include is Trump 'owning' Greenland. Or Iceland. What it might eventually include is permission, and I'll say that again, permission by Greenland and Denmark for the US to increase its military presence there. Which Trump could have had simply by asking, rather than threatening.
