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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is zero point in "taking" Greenland. It's already part of NATO. We have a military base there. Denmark has said the US is welcome to expand its military presence in Greenland. They have also said the US is welcome to compete for mining deals and concessions.

But taking Greenland by force would be the end of NATO. The US will lose its military bases in Europe. 100,000 US troops will go home. A very successful trans-Atlantic alliance will be gone.

Europe, the UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand will form a separate alliance, isolating the US. And naturally, a US seizure of Greenland will lead to the end of the US dollar as the reserve currency. No one will be buying the $39 trillion of debt the US currently has outstanding. Interest rates will soar in the US. Unemployment will skyrocket. And the US will stand alone in its modern great depression.

And for what? Trump seems determined to change the US from the only global superpower in the world to being nothing more than a regional bully - like Russia or Iran. Taking Greenland makes no strategic sense whatsoever. The costs to the US are enormous. And there's no coming back from it. If the US makes that move, the entire security and trade structure that has served the US very well for 80 years is gone.

I am sometimes surprised by the breathtaking stupidity of Republicans. But taking Greenland goes even further than that. There really needs to be a thorough investigation into Trump's ties to Russia. A move like taking Greenland destroys American national security. And only Russia and China benefit from that.[/quote] Ending NATO would save the US gobs of money, especially bringing back the 100,000 troops as you say. The US doesn’t need NATO, we are not the ones landlocked with Russia, that would be Europe. So, I don’t think Europe is walking away from NATO on behalf of Greenland. Most of what you argue is completely unsupportable.[/quote]

Europe is not walking away because NATO as we know it would seize to exist when one member attacks another.  You are talking about Greenland as if it’s an undiscovered land but it is Denmark.  You are declaring war on Denmark, part of Scandinavia - Arctic warfare veterans, neighbor to Germany, in the heart of Europe, member of the European Union.  Europe would have no choice but to stand with Denmark, and Canada, and half the Pacific would join them.  You know who will offer aid then to get rid of the aggressor?

“When an ally attacks another ally the enemy of my enemy becomes my friend.”  We have seen this movie before and those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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