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the magnitude of donnie's threats on greenland are being seriously underreported in america.
invading greenland would be invading a nato member, effectively declaring war on europe.
the political and economic consequences alone would be massively detrimental to both sides of the atlantic, even if it doesn't lead to actual hostilities outside of greenland.
but it amounts to something very much like hitler's invasion of poland -- the point at which all pretense is abandoned and the world understands that there is no reasoning or bargaining with this tyrant. america will be met only with hostility from that point on. we will have no friends in the world, only people looking to remove us as a threat.
i remain disgusted with those who could not see this guy as a modern-day hitler.
just because much of his hate was directed at immigrants, liberals and trans people instead of immigrants, liberals, and jews. and apparently not having a square mustache was all the disguise he needed.
31st Street Bridge
(102 posts)Particularly in how Nazi state media pumped out lie after lie about Germans being mistreated by Austrian Social Democrats, then Sudetenland Czechs, then Poland in general.
Those imaginary demons in Hitler's propaganda have been succeeded by immigrants and trans folks in Trump's propaganda, which only has been made more fraudulent by an American media landscape that more and more resembles the Goebbels-driven Volkischer Beobachter than any media of a generation ago.
unblock
(55,973 posts)And they all believe it even without being able to produce a single anecdote.
Fiendish Thingy
(22,174 posts)FIFY
Hitler invading Poland had little immediate negative consequences for him or Germany, but attacking Russia sure did
unblock
(55,973 posts)And invading Greenland would be a cakewalk and would likely be little seen as a success in the short term.
But as with Hitler and Poland, it would set in motion things that will cause us serious harm even if it takes a few years.
Fiendish Thingy
(22,174 posts)Sell off of trillions in EU held treasury bonds, crashing the dollar, triggering hyperinflation, jacking up interest rates and collapsing the US economy.
Apple, Tesla, Amazon, McDonalds and every other American company banned from doing business in the EU. X and Facebook would literally be shutdown overnight.
Thousands of US troops become instant POWs, or are sent home without billions worth of arms and equipment. Many more die on the tundra in Greenland (it wont be the cakewalk you imagine, especially if the EU continues troop build up and also deploys a naval battle group.
Thats the big difference between Greenland and Venezuela- the consequences for invading Greenland are predictable and severe.
Trump is already looking for an off ramp that is the least embarrassing- thats why we are seeing all the stories of his threatened additional tariffs on nations that dont support his invasion.
murielm99
(32,716 posts)Hitler and Poland since TSF started talking about Greenland.