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    Serious question, if the states did invade somewhere, whether it’s Greenland, Canada or Panama, what countries would actually be willing to use military force to stop them?

    Would they end up going to China for aid?

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    This asshole is the kind of bumbling cartoonishly psychotic politician you read about on surviving pre-bomb terminals in Fallout.

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    Greenland isn’t for sale, and coercion isn’t diplomacy. This will backfire internationally.

    🐱🐱

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    It’s a very small population, but a very, very large piece of land.

    Sounds like the king of clowntown has been looking at a Mercator projection again. It’s an easy mistake for people who don’t know what they’re talking about to make.

    I stole this from reddit:

    And this interest in Greenland smacks of the game of “Risk”, which might be the basis of his foreign policy.

    I’m which case, he should mass forces on New Zealand.

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      It’s still, like, a quarter of the US landmass (eyeball measurement), which is big

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        The total area of Greenland is 2.1 million km², but where other countries have usable land and maybe some lakes, Greenland has 1.7 million km² of ice. There’s some land under there, but much less than you might think:

        Topographic map of Greenland (Wikipedia)

        The US has 9.1 million km² of actual land, so if we’re counting the ice, a quarter is about right.

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            there’s a whole pond in the middle

            Well yes, but actually no.

            That part in the middle is land that has a miles-thick pile of ice on top of it. There’s probably not any significant amount of liquid water on that land under the ice right now, and (in the long term) there probably still wouldn’t be any liquid water on it because isostatic rebound would cause the land to lift if the ice were removed. I haven’t found any sources that definitively claim whether the magnitude of the rebound would be enough to get all of it above sea level, but my guess is that it would.

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        He’s said “very very”.

        Looks like it’s maybe the size of Florida? Is that about right? I’ll go look it up sometime when I have the time time time time time time time time time time time time time time.

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      As a Canadian, the moment tanks roll across the border I’m going feral. This is not the future we were promised in our youth. Sovereignty is non-negotiable.

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        I’m with you buddy i will use the rest of my life making canada a useless wasteland before i let those fucktard take 1 inch of land

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        Might I suggest buying a few cheap drones? If every Canadian had five cheap drones and access to special recipes any occupation would be costly and extremely expensive.

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          The only recipes I have are for muffins. I’m a terrible baker though, so that might still work.

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            Make the muffins using Styrofoam and gasoline.

            Stuff Styrofoam in a glass container. Fill up.

            When ready to bake Heat wick to 350°

            ^I love the smell of napalm muffins in the morning.^

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              Just like momma used to make when protesting animal testing!

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          No, seriously, if we get to that state, there genuinely does need to be maximum chaos. I say that as an American.

          On an entirely unrelated note, I don’t think it’d be that hard to drop bunches of tinsel strands over electrical substations by drone.

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          You can sabotage all kinds of things that wouldn’t harm citizens. Military bases. Republican headquarters. Roads and rail used to transport military equipment.

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      If I was single and childless I’d be more than tempted to go fight in Ukraine. That might be the most productive and objectively noble thing anyone could do right now to stop Putin and maybe, by extension, the US.

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    I read a reaction from a Greenlandic politician. He was mostly upset about the laugh track that followed Trump saying “incredible people”.

    Watch the clip again if you didn’t notice.

    It’s perfectly reasonable that they don’t want to be addressed like that. The politician went on to call it an “unacceptable human view”.

    I agree. The act of the middle school bully doesn’t translate into anything remotely strong or respectable. It’s just disgusting. It doesn’t matter who or what they’re talking about, and when presenting themselves by giggles and eye-rolling, they’re really only presenting their own insecurity by hiding their disgusting views in the support of a laugh track.

    I am from Denmark, which actually colonized Greenland. We have made mistakes and treated them badly in the past for sure, but never like that. We have never laughed in their faces when doing so.

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      A threat of war, sure. But you don’t declare war like that clip of “declaring” bankruptcy. Even with all the wars the US has started, the last one declared was in 1942. Until Congress formally declares war, or troops start to move in, it’s still just a threat.

      That said, it is a threat that everyone should take very seriously.

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        Well then the concept of declaration of war you’re presenting is worth jack shit since the US has ravaged countries for decades after 1942

        All it means is that congress’ approval is not needed to wage war, so this threat is way closer to a declaration than what you estimate

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        This is true, but I’m unclear on what the last authorization of force – that was hastily passed by Congress during whatever crisis or whatever lull between crises preemptively – authorizes the prezzy to do without a war declaration.

        Congress has continually abdicated its position as a co-equal branch of government.

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    This shit show brought to you be the American voter, who pissed away 80 years of good will and American economic dominance out of sheer stupidity. Make Russia an Empire Again!

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    This dumb fuck is trying to speed run WW3 for no other reason than to suck up to his man crush…that bitch putin