Seized lands auctioned off to highest corporate bidders along with liberal rights. Exploitation of the wilderness destroys it. Capitalism and oligarchy destroys another piece of our world.

Wow. You are so right.

What even happens if one NATO member attacks another? Does the aggressor immediately get their membership nullified and the rest must come together and declare war on them?

i'm guessing that ~~he~~putin thinks that doing so would be enough to break apart the alliance or get the u.s. kicked out.

Very likely to be.

The Iraq War proved that Congress doesn't have the balls to insist on that point of order.

I don't think it'll start with a formal declaration. He won't get that.

I think he'll order the military to stop paying for the US military base in Greenland without leaving, then have them expand operations outside of the agreement to provoke a response.

This will of course make every other country far less likely to renew or grant leases for US military bases and reduce US global military hegemony. But nobody driving this is thinking that far ahead.

We haven't declared war since WW2. The President can launch an attack without needing Congress backing for ~90 days if I remember correctly. I'm hoping he isn't dumb enough to do so, but he may get drunk one night and set it off while bitching on truth social at 1 in the morning and make a drunken phone call because he's not mentally stable.

• Dementia-addled brain latches onto a stupid obsession for random reasons and everyone ends up trying to figure out what 4-D chess move is really behind it.

It's still a problem the world needs to deal with, but I don't think it's as deep as everyone thinks.

I think that invading greenland is an effective way to destroy nato. Russia and China would be pleased.

Its a smart play for china.

China will be happy to pump this with trump.

Trump will happily be told by china he can have it if they can have Taiwan. He won't care about the second part, just hearing he is ok to proceed will send him signing orders

Then Europe/NATO will object complain, block fight etc.

Suddenly dollar isn't the Petro dollar anymore because of their stability issues. China will step up and trumpet themselves as the stable one so use them.

Once Petro dollar isn't USA anymore all hell breaks lose economy wise.

It looks big on the map, trump thinks he's about to gain 50% more land for america

It borders the US and is populated by white people.
Notice how he also talks about Canada becoming a US state.
He doesn't want to expand the US to the south, cause that would make Mexicans US citizens.

But he's basically internalized Putin's logic that territorial expansion is good.
Even though that kind of thinking is over 100 years out of date.

Northwest Passage claim

The ones Greenland offered to negotiate a deal for?

The handlers will just let Donny play in a protected playpen and scream and shout all he wants and they'll throw in a stuffed toy or a plastic toy he can easily break and get his frustrations out.

The problems will start when little Donny will start to get out of control and start pushing buttons he isn't supposed to have access to.

Hopefully, the Nuclear Football is baby proofed enough to keep us all alive.