Make it make sense, you ask?
Oh, it makes perfect sense.
Anyone who thinks the President-elect’s huffing and puffing about Greenland, Panama, Canada and Mexico, is just trolling from a moron, well, they’re not wrong, but when the Moron is President of the United States, you can’t expect people not to take it seriously.
Above, although I get it that the Meidas Touch podcast is breathlessly partisan, they are taking seriously things that the mainstream media seems desperate to normalize and sane-wash.
Particularly interesting that a former Trump security advisor casually affirms an intention to control Greenland, and candidly admits the rationale is…Climate Change.
No one knows if Trump is serious, but the best time to kill a bad idea is in the brainstorming phase. Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede flatly rejectedeven the idea of negotiating — “we are not for sale and will never be for sale” — just as Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had in 2019 when Trump first proposed buying the territory. Trump appears to want Greenland badly enough that, as crazy as it sounds, he might start an economic war, or worse, to get it.
Such a war would violate the commitment that the U.S. (and dozens of other countries, including Denmark and the Soviet Union) made in the Helsinki Accords of 1975, which settled the post-World War II boundaries of Europe. That agreement obligates its signatories to refrain from “any demand for, or act of, seizure and usurpation of part or all of the territory of any participating State.”
Vladimir Putin, who has made no secret of his desire to assert Russian hegemony over Eastern Europe, would relish seeing Trump put those boundaries back in play. Already, commentators on Russian state television have applauded Trump’s proposal as heralding the imminent carve-up of the world into “spheres of influence.”
A Trumpian grab for Greenland over the objection of Denmark, a NATO member, would be the end of NATO, since no alliance can survive when its leading power violates the territorial integrity of another member. Since “might makes right” is a two-way street, China could use a Greenland power play as further justification for invading Taiwan by pointing out that the U.S. has as much claim to Greenland as it does to the Cathedral of Notre Dame, while Taiwan once was part of the Chinese Empire. In the modern era, the only country to violate Denmark’s sovereignty has been Hitler’s Germany, which is not a state that America should ever want to be grouped with.
What possible connection to climate change is Trump imagining? He thinks he can order the ice to stop melting if US owns the land?
The Arctic Ocean will become strategically much more important as it opens up, and Russia and China will do all sorts of naughty things when that happens, and Greenland access is the key to that. Or something.
[The forecast I remember from many years back is that Iceland will become “the Singapore of the North Atlantic” with respect to shipping routes.]
No, the rationale for Greenland is not, “climate change.” The rationale is strategic, as in militarily important to western mutual defence against expansionist Russia and China. In all these cases – Panama, Canada, and Mexico – this consideration plays a major role. I didn’t hear or read anything on this site or the ones you reference about this reality and the very real global threat they pose. To you. To all of us in the West.
And so the geopolitical reality in which we collectively live denied by so many voters and the media that continues to be fully dedicated to promoting Trump Derangement Syndrome, it would be irresponsible and dangerous to pretend this growing threat isn’t real when Russia continues to increase its military presence far beyond both the US and NATO’s arctic capabilities and China continues its efforts to buy it’s way into ever-expanding influence into key and critical areas of infrastructure in the Western hemisphere. Did you completely forget about the Munroe Doctrine in your rush to vilify all things Trump? Funny, that. Did you criticize these mentioned governments that collectively have failed spectacularly to remain good allies on vital strategic files?
Of course not. It doesn’t fit the Derangement narrative.
You seem only too willing to give up a balanced perspective or insightful knowledge-based commentary when it comes to the incoming Trump administration and lately have turned the derangement spigot to full throttle.
Laugh Out Loud
Trump is a Putin puppet – he’s given top secrets to them and US intelligence assets in Eastern block countries have died as a result. Putin has Kompromat on Trump and uses it. You completely lack understanding of what is going on – well no surprise there as you seem to support Trump.
We need to back to the glory days of american imperialism, doing coups d’état in the americas. Those were the days. So what if Greenland, Canada, and Mexico have democratically elected governments.
What’s far more important is the threat the US poses to all of us in the world. Not just Hair Twittler der Gropenführer but Republicans & the bipartisan lunatic caucus. And let’s not forget that the Resident Select of the US is all for helping Putin & other dictators. Wants to build a clubhouse, maybe in space, & hang out watching losers like you suffer & die.
Munroe is spelled Monroe.
Thanks for the spelling correction. My bad.
Historically the US has been able to achieve what Robert O’Brien was talking about with limited American bases rather than taking over whole countries or territories.
BTW, since the election of Trump I’ve actually been counting on China continuing its dominance of clean energy tech, rather than watching thoughtless assholes like the Project 2025 crew undermine any progress in the US. I guess you could say I’m a “planet before country” type person.