Military Analyst Malcolm Nance on X:
CONSEQUENCES FOR DUMBASSES: You are an F’ing idiot. If we invade Greenland we go to war with 31 nations. NATO stays together but without us. Its HQ is in Brussels, not the Pentagon.
Our global reach across the Atlantic will end with our closest refueling base in Israel or Egypt. 100,000 American soldiers will be forced to board civil airliners and sent home or be taken as POWs/Detainee sWITHOUT WEAPONS OR EQUIPMENT.
Canada will close its airspace and sea space. US Ballistic Missile Defense at Pettufik and Fylingdales ENDS, which means we see nothing except what space sensors can see. US Intelligence is reduced to Fort Meade, Ft Gordon and Colorado Springs and Hawaii. CIA spies will be rolled up by their former friends in HOURS. NO ONE WILL SHARE ANYTHING WITH US. ALL GLOBAL SHIPPING WILL BE CLOSED TO US.
Denmark operates the largest shipping company in the world. SIX OUT OF TEN global shipping companies are in Europe … Worlds Biggest container ships? DENMARK! Australia, NZ, Canada are Commonwealth so they will cut ties with us or be neutral too.
PS Denmark & locals tun all life support and generators at Pittufik and Canada resupplies it … all 150 US Spece force personnel would become POWs to guys on sleds. FYI They have troops there now and 35,000 Caribou hunting rifles. FYI France and UK have nukes.
Hundreds of them so you cannot intimidate them with that. Oh and they collapse the US economy by sanctioning us and selling off 2.3 Trillion in US treasuries simultaneously. Also no Botox, Ozempic or insulin. Its made in Denmark.
Branislav Slantchev, University of California, on X:
To the idiots blabbering blithely about Greenland and “US doesn’t need NATO,” do us all a favor and check what US power projection requires and what losing our presence in Europe, with all the bases and logistical infrastructure to support global deployments, would entail.
Next check what it would cost us to man all the resulting gaps in the Atlantic and Arctic defense, and explain where we’re going to build substitute ports and bases if we wish to retain a foothold in the Middle East. I know you people seem to think that the U.S. magically teleports entire brigades thousands of miles away or that aircraft carriers can just float around for years on their own, but this is truly unserious bullshit.
If you thought America was spending “too much” on defense because of NATO, just wait until you learn what we would have to spend without NATO to maintain even a fraction of our global influence. Losing NATO — which is what will happen if we attempt to coerce Denmark (read Article I) — will be the surest and fastest way to global decline.
Now, if you are Russia or China, you would surely welcome this. But if you are an American, you wouldn’t. The administration is either bluffing or they are incomparable idiots the likes of which we have never seen in our history, or we will have to revisit that kompromat idea that I have always resisted.
Nance is more than bit over the top but it’s clear that the negative consequences for the U.S. of any unwelcome action on the part of the Trump Administration on Greenland would be severe.
Thank gods some GOP elected officials are not craven sycophants. Some hope for the Hew Ess Ay and the (western) world order. Still a frightening situation,
Mike Johnson is on record saying he thinks the War Powers Act itself is unconstitutional. Josh Hawley just did a 180 on Venezuela:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5689193-hawley-republican-venezuela-bill/
Call me skeptical that I doubt the Republicans have backbone.
Among the consequences left out: economic ruination for the us followed by even lower record approval ratings for the cheeto Caligula (what’s the poll equivalent of increasing the hot part of the range on heat maps by adding new colors?) followed by the 25th amendment, followed by both parties in all 3 houses getting replaced by the Green Party and socialists?
OK the last part will never happen; people in the US are too besotted by the news and media equivalent of Huxley’s Soma. The new bread and circuses: chips and unreality shows.
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