The idea that the US would attempt to take Greenland by force is utterly ludicrous.
Lots of what Trump says is utterly ludicrous. But he does lots of what he says (though not everything), so the rest of the world is right to prepare.
Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
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#132Tu as le droit de perdre, mais tu n'as pas le droit de te faire surprendre. (You have the right to lose, but you do not have the right to be caught off guard.)
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Imprison based on what and seize assets based on what exactly? You not liking the administration is not a valid reason for asset seizure
Open bribery and corruption (both the direct pay-for-play and the indirect via insider information), openly violating the law and ignoring the courts, betrayal of public trust, mishandling of confidential information, war crimes, take your pick of the many different choices. And the asset seizure would be for the proceeds of all the open bribery, at the very least.
Sadly, these are all fairly "safe" things for a US president to do. Either because there's no law against it and if there is he can just pardon himself and his partners in crime. I know a presidential self-pardon is controversial but realistically Trump will be dead before that legal question is settled.
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Trust me, Denmark wasn't posturing. The assumption was - and still is - that the USA wasn't posturing either. We (and I realize I obviously don't speak for all of Europe but I have my finger on the pulse in many places here) are also not assuming that when Trump is gone the USA will go back to normal.
This is absurd in the extreme. In actual war there is absolutely no possibility of success for Denmark, even with the help of allies. Failure to capitulate results in nothing but death and destruction with no hope of strategic gain to begin with. What you are likely experiencing is a modern belief that screaming and shouting will bring popular diplomatic pressure to bear on the opponent, thus arresting their actions.…
I mean the same was said about Ukraine.
What are we supposed to do, just fucking give up?
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And partisan hacks will say that a stubbed toe and terminal cancer are both bad.
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> and took giant amounts of holiday
Trump took more than double the amount of vacation days in his first term, and if the golf tracker is accurate, he's on pace to increase it this term.
> Trump's talking basically every day in front of press
I'm not sure if talking === communicating_effectively. There are certainly noises coming out of his mouth, if that's the only metric we care about.
> Joe Biden was in far, far worse shape than Trump is
Given the choice between a president who recognizes his own weaknesses and delegates to competent team members and one who is unable to admit a single mistake and surrounds himself with grossly unqualified and incompetent sycophants, I'll take the former.
> There's absolutely no comparison
As with most comparisons made by Trump supporters - you're right, but not for the reasons you think.
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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.
I am the guy who participated in Green Card lottery for few years willing to work in most advanced planet‘s semiconductor companies. I changed my mind recently. Speedboat ambushes, Greenland, public executions by ICE „officers“ and now Iran war. US I knew is definitely gone. That’s not the country sharing culture and values peacefully anymore: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika-Haus_(M%C3%BCnchen)
To be fair, the US has never been peaceful, and it's the country that started the most wars since WW2. It's just that it used to be in our team, and human nature makes the aggressiveness of our team justified, or at least understandable, or at least ignorable, or at least not quite changing our deep feelings.
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True. Yet he still managed to do less damage.
...because he had competent people around him that he trusted enough to make decisions, and not former TV hosts.
This isn't to say "oh he was just a puppet" nor "all US presidents are puppets", but to say that the decision of who they choose to fill important positions is in and of itself the most important decision in every presidential term. They only really need to be not senile for the first month or so, for the rest of the term it's just a PR problem.
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#139And this is, in my opinion, why support at Hormuz shouldn’t even be on the table. How can you possibly hold joint patrols when you were just months ago planning full scale war between each other?
> And this is, in my opinion, why support at Hormuz shouldn’t even be on the table
Shouldn't? it's not on the table at all lol
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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 fl…
> Dude, that isn't sustainable. That is an absolute powder keg where rural, low-density shithole states full of angry, poorly educated clowns keep lording over urban, educated Americans. That it has been endured this long is an absolute mystery.
At some point, the mystery to me feels how are american people so tolerant of so many bad decisions which are net negative (like really bad) long term as well too.
Could such tolerance be provided to perhaps have some short term losses/accomodations to better suit the economy and people's lifestyle to enrich it long term?
Where was the tolerance for those sectors?
Things didn't have to go down this way for America until literally quite recently. America and heck, even the rest of world have their own problems but it feels like stacking one problem after another as to what america is doing and America was given good cards. America was the global superpower and nothing else really came close and it could've cozied up to Europe,Australia,India, Japan, SK and african countries to battle chinese influence but what it has done is actually backstab these very nations that they are more opening up to china.
Truly, short term loss for long term loss moment.