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[quote=Anonymous][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]

This is my view, too. I am so terrified.

No one in my small family has cognizable claims to citizenship in another country. We have nowhere to go if this happens, and the US is effectively destroyed from the inside out. This would be a disaster for hundreds of millions of people, who lack liquid 6 or 7 figure assets to purchase property in an allied nation or culture.

I think I misunderstood Trumpism in Trump 1. I did not fully accept that[b] he wanted to make moves inimical to the country itself[/b], not just to Democrats or blue states. He is a vassal to the countries that have paid his debts and hold his most serious sexual and financial secrets. I am terrified that he will succeed, because no politicians are effectively opposing, and I do not believe the military will either.[/quote]

He has made this clear for quite some time, certainly more than 8 years. This is why people keep referring to the "Leopards Eating Faces" party.[/quote]

You’re responding to me and I don’t really agree; it seemed in 2015 that he’d be standard-issue corrupt, plus racist, plus xenophobic. Meaning, susceptible to bribes, and willing to do the most for various business giants in exchange for power and payments. I was always against him and extremely alarmed, but no, I did not foresee attempting to destroy NATO, because I assumed that business conglomerates and even the oligarchs of today would not want our country totally without allies. For me, this end was not predictable. I did not have the imagination for this.[/quote]

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