Nato countries send troops to Greenland

@swirlie The point is he , the usa should not even try. EU made the point today , if - all trade deals are off. Europe will intern 400.000 americans in Europe in concentration camps.

@Khenpal1
Why not just evict all Americans from Europe instead of putting them up in jail at tax payer's expense?

@Pretzel
The same thing happened during the War of 1812. The USA very stupidly declared war on what's now Canada and the silly asses tried to annex Canada 7 times and lost 7 times, thereby retreating south of the border once and for all.

This was no different than the US retreating from Panama when it lost it's invasion of 1989, nor when the US retreated from Vietnam when it lost due to gross incompetency at jungle warfare, nor when the US retreated from Iraq when it lost after discovering their US Intelligence was fake, nor when the US retreated from Afghanistan after it lost due to gross incompetency at mountain warfare.

The USA has lost every war it ever started in the last 214 years and only maintains a 61% average over that same time period in coming out the winner of any pre-existing war the US ever stuck it's greedy nose into.

Americans by their very nature are not warriors and never have been as evidenced by the US military's track record. There isn't a doubt in my mind that the US would back down from Greenland, no different than it backed down from the Brits during the War of 1812 when the US tried 7 times to annex north of the Canada/US border.

@Pretzel I'll have to watch it lol

@whowasthatmaskedman No I just heard about it now though I'll have to check it out

@swirlie The Duchy of Grand Fenwick.. Peter Sellers played several parts..😷

@SatanBurger [media=https://youtu.be/fU8UEinOZWo?t=10]

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow There has always been an understanding with NATO to equip with common armament based on the US standard, which generally means everyone buys American stuff..This is part of Trumps push to get all the NATO countries to spend more.. This will of course no longer be the case and Trump has again shot America in the foot, losing billions in Arms sales.//😷

@whowasthatmaskedman Yep. It is welfare for American weapons companies and it has functioned as an American foreign legion from day one.

This was never about the benefit of the the other members.

@swirlie Invading Venezuela, threatening Cuba, and Greenland, Trump just thinks he can take over any country he feels like. Didn't Hitler kind of have the same idea?

@independentone
No, there is a bit of a difference between Hitler of the 1930s and Trump of 2026.

The difference is that Hitler could not achieve his objectives alone because he was a virtual unknown in Germany prior to the 1930s. Hitler then partnered with Mussolini of Italy who was an extremely popular man among his fellow countrymen. Hitler on the other hand was a reclusive isolationist who was never popular among anyone except the very poor in Germany.

Hitler then piggybacked on Mussolini's inherent popularity and then deceived Mussolini into backing Hitler's NAZI party, which was a right-wing political party that represented factory workers and farmers, both groups of which were very poor and underpaid.

Mussolini got in so deep with Hitler that he couldn't get out without risking the end of his own political career, so he helped Hitler to achieve his objective, but which did not include the Genocide imposed on Jews by Hitler. Now Mussolini found himself involved with the Genocide by default.

Trump on the other hand is operating alone using his right-wing MAGA party which no longer represents the Republican vote in America. In fact, the Republican Party no longer exists in principle in the USA.

The thing is, Trump cannot do what Hitler tried to do in annexing all of Europe for Germany's benefit because of two things... 1) the USA is technically bankrupt because the country is $38 Trillion in National Debt and 2), the USA has completely lost all credibility around the world and therefore has lost all relevancy on the world stage because of Trump and his MAGA Party.

What this means is, Trump is a one-man band trying to duplicate what Hitler did but he has no other country to back his efforts, unless of course Trump is actually working for Putin and it is Putin who is calling the shots in American politics today.

The question is, who is Trump actually working for? ...because Trump is not a smart enough man to come up with all this annexing stuff on his own.

@independentone And NATO is like saying "We should join the Axis powers and make sure we meet their goals for military spending.

@Captainjackass Oh yeah I'm fairly convinced that Trump could go pretty far so I don't hold onto any hope of that.