Just casually threatening war with NATO. From Mr "yOuR ThReAtEnInG wOrLd WaR 3" less than a week ago
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It's not war when Trump does it. It's liberation.
That same liberation under a Democrat would have them begging the Hague to arrest the sitting president.
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I'm still convinced he only wants Greenland because it looks big on a map.
Somebody's feeding him grandiose ideas about global warming and northern sea routes. Probably some flattering lies about splitting said routes between them and dominating world trade too, once Canada and the EU are out of the way.
To be fair, China has been investing in thawing sea routes for a while, though largely to free themselves from having to pass through the US-controlled South China Sea.
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It has room to move people into as climate change makes living in the equatorial regions difficult.
It has a bunch of minerals the USA could use.
It houses a NATO base that if it were in Russia's hands would make it easier for Russia to eventually project force westward.
There are reasons for America to want Greenland. They all happen to be evil which Im fairly positive is a side benefit for the current administration.
Or, he recognises that arctic and subarctic territories are going to be worth much more in the future because of global warming. Trump is a major scatterbrain but in general it looks like heβs acting impulsively based on pieces of trivia, some of them being correct. Not that I agree with proposed solution to the issue but not everything he does is entirely dumb and those are very rarely inconsistent with his own interests.
Perfect plan: support fossile fuels, eliminate renuables, buy Greenland, gain the profits from global warming and melting ice.
Renew
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Damn you web mercator projection! If only Robinson projection was the default on google/apple/whatever trump uses -map.
To be fair even on a globe Greenland is still massive. Just not quite as bad on Mercator.
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He is dumb enough for that to be utterly believable.
The assumption should never be that Trump wants a thing but that Putin wants it.
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I always see photos of him with the fist raised like that. Looks like he chose his own salute. Not surprising at all, but seeing it is still both saddening and maddening
So far nazis have ruined the toothbrush moustache, the swastika, the Gadsen Flag, Pepe (no big loss there), the OK symbol, and are on their way to ruining the US flag since anymore I nearly only ever seen it flown next to a Trump flag.
Now they are going to ruin the raised fist too.
they can pry pepe from my cold dead hands
I must be OOTL, how is the ok symbol ruined?
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It's the Black Power fist.
Except he's white.
Wonder what we could call it?
It's the socialist salute, which he has absolutely no right to use.
Almost like the nazis using an ancient symbol of luck as their logo.
This can be explained by the fact that DJT is an idiot.
Orange Power?
He gives a Minifist
It does look strangely small. Seriously though, not making any childish penis joke. The dude just has small hands Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
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He wants to be like Hitler so bad, but knows that Americans will not stand for it so he does the close fist instead. In 100 years we will see that the way we see the nazi salute.
I think in his mind heβs just pulling the handle for the steam whistle of his imaginary choo choo train.
Need to prove to daddy Putin that you are worth keeping around, eh?
Looks like Denmark needs nukes.
Let's take that hot air argument off the table.
Escalating into nuclear conflict is a total loss scenario. The first one pressing a button would trigger a chain reaction that would render the planet an irradiated rock. Nobody gains anything.
Nuclear armament is the last hidding place for fragile egos and we would be very fortunate if after this insanity streak there was a complete nuclear global disarmament.
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Seems like he's a terrorist.
If you think it's insane it's basically still how we took the Kingdom of Hawaii.
And half of Mexico.
I can't wait for the "Donald Trump hiding place" memes.
This guy needs a reality check! Can somebody take over the US please?
Russia already own the US that why all of this happen now
This oversimplification is how the world will learn nothing from this. Putin didn't compromise 47 million Americans into voting for fascism.
Major political and economic change is needed. How many times does fascism have to materialize exactly as leftists have predicted before people start reevaluating the economic system that creates Elon Musks.
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Make America Great......... Britain Again!
It would be quite like Trump to completely disregard the consent of the people of Greenland in this exchange while giving them platitudes about how he respects their rights
Kinda incredible how quickly he pivoted from, "We're gonna stop spending billions on all these wars," to, "Fuck it, I feel like invading Greenland."
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This all could have been avoided if one dude had better aim. π
He thinks because daddy vladdy does stuff that way he can. Rube
Is it so he can give it to Russia as a forward operating base for future invasions?
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