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A day without stupid?

crazyfingers said:
They are fools and show themselves to be fools and they are in charge of the most powerful country in the world.
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They are in charge of the most heavily armed country in the world. Most of the power the US had (past tense), was due to her preeminence amongst a group of other wealthy and influential nation states, who looked to her for military and financial aid, in return for the power to project her ideals and policies globally, and the ability to sell goods and services to those allies.

That power has now been squandered. Even Canada is now distancing herself from the USA.

Just for one example, there's serious talk in Canada and the EU of cancelling orders for F-35 fighter aircraft, because suddenly the USA can't be trusted to support those purchases - and the US would retain control of the software that renders them combat effective.
 
In Vance's visit to Greenland its been revealed that Trump is just another Putin or Xi Jinping. Just trying to bully neighbours and grabbing stuff.

What a new world we've woken up to

Yikes
 
I got some more information on Trump's move on Greenland. Greenland has massive amounts of oil and minerals. Super wealthy deposites. But it's also so cold it's not economically feasable at the moment to dig it out. With the Greenland ice sheets retreating these natural wealth deposites will eventually reach a point where it's worth it to extract. When that happens Greenland will be a new Norway. With the difference that Greenland has a tiny tiny population. 57 000. And the Danish government, stupidly, have already granted Greenland indipendence.

Right now, Greenland is pretty worthless. 40% of all Greenlanders work in Danish government administration. The Danish government has placed as much of their govornment administration as possible in Greenland, just so they'll have anything to do. Apart from fishing it's pretty much the only available work. Alcoholism is rampant. Apart from this, 2/3 of Greenlands annual budget is covered by Denmark. Yes, Greenland loses money every year.

So right now Greenland is financially dependent on Denmark. That's why they're loyal to Denmark. But what happens, the moment another player enters, a rich player, and just offers Greenland money for their mineral wealth?

Right now Greenland is on the precipice of becoming an extremely wealthy country. Already indipendent. With no army with which to defend that wealth. In an increasingly beligerent world. Russia is quite close. And Russia, incidentally, has a similar problem to Greenland. With much of it's oil and mineral wealth tied up in the Siberian tundra. When that wealth is made available Russia will become even more dangerous.

Trumps move on Greenland isn't insane. It could pay off. But it's a long term strategy.
 
Trump being "very angry" at Putin is absurd. Trump is like a petulant child. Unable to grasp how foreign policy works. To all you Americans, Trump has wrecked all American goodwill built up over the decades following WW2. He's pissed us off... for little benefit.

It reminds me of Kaiser Wilhelm before WWI who had a solid ally in Great Britain. And who somehow... managed to piss them off to end up on opposite sides in the following war. To the degree where Great Britain managed to ally with their sworn enemy, France. That was quite an acheivement. Trump is doing something similar right now.

It's not so much that Europeans hate Trump. We just don't trust USA right now. It's now a worthless country to be allied to. Which sucks for everyone.
 
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