"Trump wants to invade a NATO ally so we can have military bases we already have, to combat a threat that does not exist.
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"America, for all its missteps, had been the guarantor of a rules-based order in which smaller nations could trust that their sovereignty would be respected. American dominance was by no means faultless, but it was consciously unlike the empires of old, with a firm policy against pursuing territorial conquest."
~ Berny Belvedere
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe
/2https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-attempted-greenland-grab-has
"The system worked, in part, because countries believed the U.S. would honor its commitments. ...
The reality is that when the architect of the postwar order becomes its violator, the entire system collapses. If the U.S. can threaten NATO allies with impunity, why should China hold back from attacking Taiwan? Why should Russia stop at Ukraine?"
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"The system worked, in part, because countries believed the U.S. would honor its commitments. ...
The reality is that when the architect of the postwar order becomes its violator, the entire system collapses. If the U.S. can threaten NATO allies with impunity, why should China hold back from attacking Taiwan? Why should Russia stop at Ukraine?"
"Trump’s territorial adventurism doesn’t just betray specific allies, it demolishes the principle that has prevented great power wars for much of the last century."
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"Trump’s territorial adventurism doesn’t just betray specific allies, it demolishes the principle that has prevented great power wars for much of the last century."
"He said he wouldn’t do it. For now.
You won’t find this in any diplomacy textbook. It’s the language of a protection racket.
So how did reporters cover it?
NPR (original headline): 'Trump says
I won’t use force" to obtain Greenland in Davos speech'ABC News: 'Trump rules out using military force to acquire Greenland in Davos speech'”
~ Parker Molloy
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"He said he wouldn’t do it. For now.
You won’t find this in any diplomacy textbook. It’s the language of a protection racket.
So how did reporters cover it?
NPR (original headline): 'Trump says
I won’t use force" to obtain Greenland in Davos speech'ABC News: 'Trump rules out using military force to acquire Greenland in Davos speech'”
~ Parker Molloy
"NBC: 'Trump calls for ‘immediate negotiations’ on Greenland, but rules out using force' ...
Every story that treats 'I won’t use force' as the news, rather than 'I reminded everyone that I could use unstoppable force,' contributes to a distorted picture of reality. Readers who rely on mainstream coverage encounter a version of Trump that has been sanded down, made palatable, rendered comprehensible within frameworks that don’t apply to him."
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"NBC: 'Trump calls for ‘immediate negotiations’ on Greenland, but rules out using force' ...
Every story that treats 'I won’t use force' as the news, rather than 'I reminded everyone that I could use unstoppable force,' contributes to a distorted picture of reality. Readers who rely on mainstream coverage encounter a version of Trump that has been sanded down, made palatable, rendered comprehensible within frameworks that don’t apply to him."
Ruth Ben-Ghiat offers a list of autocratic rationales behind Trump's fixation on Greenland: plunder, pleasing Putin, partnerships with technofascists, megalomania, corrupting the U.S. military.
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #Putin
/7https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-autocratic-rationales-behind
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat offers a list of autocratic rationales behind Trump's fixation on Greenland: plunder, pleasing Putin, partnerships with technofascists, megalomania, corrupting the U.S. military.
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #TechBros #SiliconValley #broligarchy #Putin
/7https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-autocratic-rationales-behind
"Across the first three weeks of 2026, and especially yesterday, President Trump’s Mad King rantings about Greenland have accelerated into something far more stunning and alarming: We are watching in real-time as a superpower dies by suicide — an all-but unprecedented choice to self-immolate and torch the country’s remaining global trust and friendships."
~ Garrett M. Graff
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
/8https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/watching-a-superpower-die-by-suicide
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"Across the first three weeks of 2026, and especially yesterday, President Trump’s Mad King rantings about Greenland have accelerated into something far more stunning and alarming: We are watching in real-time as a superpower dies by suicide — an all-but unprecedented choice to self-immolate and torch the country’s remaining global trust and friendships."
~ Garrett M. Graff
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #media
/8https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/watching-a-superpower-die-by-suicide
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"They must be celebrating in Beijing. The U.S. can only seriously be a rival to China. It's amazing that we're talking about that. But by the strength of its alliances, by our soft power, the fact that we, you know — I think most of the American people still share values with the rest of Western democracies, but unfortunately, the administration does not."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #China
/10https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/live-with-paul-kruman-davos-powell
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"They must be celebrating in Beijing. The U.S. can only seriously be a rival to China. It's amazing that we're talking about that. But by the strength of its alliances, by our soft power, the fact that we, you know — I think most of the American people still share values with the rest of Western democracies, but unfortunately, the administration does not."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #China
/10https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/live-with-paul-kruman-davos-powell
"And so now, you know, this might, instead of being a win for China, it could in the end be a win for Europe because the Europeans are now learning the hard way that they need to stand on their own."
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"I try to read as much of the Russian press as I can. They're all like cackling about this. And so I think it's just this, this is the red line of red lines where you don't invade another country. And you don't threaten to invade another country. You don't threaten to invade an ally, which almost nobody's ever thought of as a possibility."
~ Rick Stengel
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #Putin
/12https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-rupture-with-europe-and-other
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"I try to read as much of the Russian press as I can. They're all like cackling about this. And so I think it's just this, this is the red line of red lines where you don't invade another country. And you don't threaten to invade another country. You don't threaten to invade an ally, which almost nobody's ever thought of as a possibility."
~ Rick Stengel
#Trump #Greenland #NATO #fascism #Europe #Putin
/12https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-rupture-with-europe-and-other
"The functional end of the American century that began in the aftermath of World War II is what [Mark Carney's speech] marks. He hand-wrote that speech. It was not put together by a team of speechwriters. It was a serious adult's remarks to a room full of the world's leaders…"
~ Steve Schmidt
#MarkCarney #Trump #Greenland #Davos #NATO #fascism #Europe
/13https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-julie-roginsky
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