Foreign Policy Crystal Ball

@Poppies He didn't really mean that we are taking over Greenland.
He's not perfect, people are critical of any little mistake made. It was a long process messing things up to this point it can't be fixed instantly without making some adjustments to the plans.
He's not a crazy person that's going to do something ridiculous. He's not out to make more money for his rich friends. Compare the stuff he says and does to those of the recent past.
Consider the source of those against him, they are far more corrupt than the current administration and they would have done nothing to make the country safer or downsize the government. I hope the D.O.G.E. makes it to my local neighborhood.

@Poppies


I think that's New York slang for "we all know that eventually you will surrender to my convincing charm" :)

For a glimpse of that convincing charm in practice, Compare Trump of January-2021 to Trump of January-2025.

@JohnnySpot China couldn't have been the reason you took other countries in the nineteenth century. Or the twentieth.

@Gibbon the problem is what he says publicly has to be taken seriously. You can't say he's not to be taken literally. He's the president of the USA! He said on TV that he couldn't rule out using force to take Greenland and the Panama Canal. He literally made that statement, so Denmark, Greenland and Panama HAVE to take him literally, or nobody can believe anything the man says. You can't communicate with world leaders like that. It's incredibly dangerous. He's already making his new administration look deranged. He's literally threatening to take Greenland by force. Your excuse here is to effectively admit that he lies in public and nothing he says can be believed because he's playing his own cards. That's literally what you're saying. It's nothing whatsoever to do with how the left view him. That's just deflection. You're admitting Trump lies and can't be believed, irrelevant of his motives for lying.

@Richard65 Okay run with that. We'll see you on the other side.

@Gibbon But sooner or later he is going to have to stop playing solitaire by himself and join the adults at the big poker table.

@hippyjoe1955 Nor have you any knowledge about them:

- Her Majesty kept her political views very private; but anyway throughout her reign the USA was not waffling about wanting to annexe Canada or part of Panama. Nor Greenland until 2016.

- Her children were NOT "inbred"; and nor are her grandchildren. She and her husband had totally different ancestries even by country (hers partly German, his Greek). Anyway, incest is illegal in the United Kingdom.

- King Charles knows considerably more about the world than you sneeringly imply.

If you are going to criticise other countries' constitutional systems at least be civilised about it, and use facts not ignorance.


(Donald Trump talked about wanting Greenland back in 2016, without explaining why. This seemed to puzzle many people, including me until I studied an atlas and thought about Trump's election- campaigning dogma. I don't recollect him mentioning Canada or Panama though, in his first term.

The Queen was still alive in 2016 when Trump came to the UK on a State Visit. I had the impression he invited himself, and then managed to insult his hosts by suggesting the USA should take over Britain's National Health Service. Not by copying its principles to create an American equivalent, against Republican Party ideology, but to use it as an overseas commercial asset.

The Queen is thought to have been unimpressed by Trump but was discreet and polite enough to keep her feelings to herself. The Monarch's relationship with foreign leaders is as Heads of State; leaving the political dealings to the Government and Diplomatic Service.)

@ArishMell Yeah you can keep your inbreds to yourself. I have no use for them. I certainly don't want Camilla's sanitary pad delivering the drone from the throne when the Canadian parliament comes back into session. In fact I don't want the Canadian parliament to ever meet again. It is dangerous to Canadian lives and values. Kind of like king upChuck that way.

@ChipmunkErnie So?

@HobNoblin If you have to ask "So?" then there's no hope in trying to explain to you.

@ChipmunkErnie Make America great again! Yeeeeeee hawww. We're goin to Greenland!

@AthrillatheHunt Yeah, no. Trump has made it very clear he wants to take it. He just wants to grab Panama by the canal.

@LordShadowfire “they LET you grab Panama by the canal. “ hahaha

@AllycatAD The speculation was not that Trump would want to take Russia or China, but that he might go along with Russia taking Ukraine and China taking Taiwan for their national security as long as the US got to do the same kind of thing .

@Poppies I see now where I misunderstood, sorry.