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Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by jagged-chisel »

butILoveLife wrote: post #60
jjtwixman wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah the US we knew is gone. I think about this sometimes when I am listening to American music from the 20th century, how much soft power they had, how great they made America sound either directly or indirectly. That America that we all looked up to and admired is gone. Pity.

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> ... but seeing how quick Europe and Canada turned on the US ...

I think they rightfully turned defensive in light of the current administration. Remains to be seen how/if they change when the administration changes.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by jnwatson »

crispyambulance wrote: post #13

There's a difference between "posturing" for show and actually "preparing for war". They're wise to the fact that "the Stable Genius" isn't going to try anything violent with Denmark/Greenland, but they still want to prevent him thinking about just stealing territory "peacefully."

Ukraine thought Russia was just posturing and look where it got them.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by disiplus »

zabzonk wrote: post #36
jacquesm wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that this is from a country that wouldn't exist if not for the allied countries and that the US has somehow managed to all but erase that reputation. We recognize our debt, we also recognize that this is to a country that no longer exists in a meaningful way. All we have now is multiple variations of the mob.

> Note that this is from a country that wouldn't exist if not for the allied countries Which allied countries? And (I assume we are talking about the USA) why would it not exist?

The post mentions, france, germany and nordic nations. France, Holand and nordic nations helped in the early stages of US.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by StefanBatory »

butILoveLife wrote: post #60
jjtwixman wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah the US we knew is gone. I think about this sometimes when I am listening to American music from the 20th century, how much soft power they had, how great they made America sound either directly or indirectly. That America that we all looked up to and admired is gone. Pity.

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US turned on the Europe and Canada*

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by jjtwixman »

butILoveLife wrote: post #60
jjtwixman wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah the US we knew is gone. I think about this sometimes when I am listening to American music from the 20th century, how much soft power they had, how great they made America sound either directly or indirectly. That America that we all looked up to and admired is gone. Pity.

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OK but this is just an argument in favour of forever wars lol. That's realism I guess in the way that Nazi Lebensraum was also realism.

> how quick Europe and Canada turned on the US

It's YOU that turned on YOUR allies. YOU threatened to invade YOUR allies. Jesus fucking Christ. You are living in a different universe entirely. I agree that countries apparently can "turn on a dime" as you say, but it's not us that's "turned on a dime" it's YOU.

America is lost.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by llm_nerd »

throwpoaster wrote: post #50
jacquesm wrote: post #3

Of course they were. The United States has never before damaged its own reputation in Europe as much as they did in the last 12 months. And the same goes for Canada, possibly worse. You don't go around threatening your allies unless you really have plans and that's why you don't elect senile old guys to positions of power.

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Militarily, absolutely. Absolutely no one misunderstands this.

It would destroy the US on the worldwide stage, and even internally. Not to mention it absolutely annihilates the American delusion that you're the "good guys". Right now the US is a staggering idiocracy, and is absolutely the most dangerous rogue nation on the planet.

And how utterly pathetic. When the "join us, please, we're so great" fell absolutely flat -- the 51st state nonsense, which is spectacularly unpopular in Canada (in fact, it's significantly more likely for an American to want their state to join Canada than for the reverse) -- now every gun-fellating uneducated American MAGA blowhard sits in their basement and fantasizes how, much like their halfwit rapist leader, they're just going to force it on Canada. Good god, what an absolute collapse to worldwide pariah.

And do Americans realize how close your country is to absolute fracture?

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-countr...

Dude, that isn't sustainable. That is an absolute powder keg where rural, low-density shithole states full of angry, poorly educated alcoholic clowns keep lording over urban, educated Americans. That it has been endured this long is an absolute mystery.

The coming decade is going to see the worst nuclear proliferation in history -- courtesy of the spectacularly stupid Trump and his MAGA misfit clowns -- and the end result is going to be some mushroom clouds in American cities. And sadly it won't be the rural garbage states like Oklahoma, it'll be American cities that never wanted any part of this idiocracy.

Re: Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

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Post by fzeroracer »

nxm wrote: post #31
empath75 wrote: post #12

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The only way the US can fix our reputation will be to try and imprison our current leadership after they are eventually removed from power. And in particular, the Trump family needs to have all of its assets seized.

Imprison based on what and seize assets based on what exactly? You not liking the administration is not a valid reason for asset seizure

Well, his administration has ignored the constitutional rights of this country multiple times at best, and at worst outright violated them resulting in killing American citizens with zero justice or recourse. There's a million different alternative reasons people could come up with, but we can just go with the classic 'treason' and line them up accordingly.
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