• RowRowRowYourBot
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    11 days ago

    Greenland houses some key NATO sites that monitor the arctic. These are mostly used to make sure Russia stays in Russia.

    The other non-Russian factor that I don’t see people discussing is climate change. The northern areas are going to become more habitable and having Greenland and Canada means the US population has somewhere to go. This is the motivation for a lot of things they aren’t talking about because it is evil.

    You can choose which evil is motivating them I believe it’s both.

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        It very much is. Canada will be housing much of the human population in the Northwestern quadrant of Earth in a few decades. We really need to get our shit together and quash racism if we want humanity to survive.

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      The northern areas are going to become more habitable

      If the AMOC collapses they’ll become significantly less habitable, and that’s looking more likely to happen by the year.

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      11 days ago

      I have considered that USA would have to migrate North. To plan for it while denying that anything is wrong is true evil.

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      11 days ago

      I think Trump wants control of trade routes (specifically, the Northwest Passage). That also explains why he’s going after the Panama Canal at the same time.

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          11 days ago

          That was from before we decided to install a dictator and become a rogue state.

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              Hmm… maybe. I’m not sure if “key partner” is actually as special as it sounds, or if it’s just puffery. It could be that a bunch of countries are “key partners” and it just happened to get mentioned in Panama’s report because the writer couldn’t think of something more specific to say. It would be more persuasive if we had the whole list of “key partners” and could show that the US is targeting all of them preferentially compared to countries with less cooperative status.

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                11 days ago

                Panama’s sanctions make world wide shipping much harder for Russians