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    An attack on Greenland would trigger Article 5. An attack on one is an attack on all. It would start a world war.

    Trump said that electing Kamala would lead to world war 3. Every accusation is an admission.

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        It would be the end of NATO as it stands, there’s no reason the remaining countries couldn’t continue the alliance or start a new one.

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          Would technically have to be a new one, NATO wasn’t designed to handle this sort of scenario. Of course New NATO would be an America-free roughly equivalent, with some different governance to prevent things like a single county impeding something everyone else wants.

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          NATO already is mostly EU + US and then only Canada, UK, Turkey and some smaller ones which all are (politically) very close to the EU (much closer than to the US at least).

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    Considering that Trump will go down in history as politics’ dumbest fucking member, it’s not a stretch.

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        There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.

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          That wasn’t even stupidity. He just realized partway through the sentence that he didn’t want there to be an audio clip of him saying “shame on me.” So he tried to change it and made it so much worse.

          If anything this makes him more relatable.

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        Regan wasn’t a dumbass by a longshot. He was just a bad president. The comparison isn’t even remotely close.

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          Reagan was a huge dumbass. He was the first in a long line of stooges for rich. He was just a empty suit doing what he was told. Oh and he commited treason with iran to get elected. So its lines up more than you think.

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            None of that is an example of low intelligence, just corruption and poor judgement/greed.

            Trump is a fucking idiot. Regan was a god-damned genius in comparison.

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    Dumbest war in history for far and away the dumbest U.S. president in history?

    Sounds about right.

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          Now I want an app thesaurus with suggestions like “intellectual impotence”. I could make a fortune. Please someone run with the idea and give me cr3di or a license.

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    Never underestimate the power of large groups of dumb people doing very dumb things.

    The redcaps are not a majority, but they got Donvict into office and Donvict probably has something like the Sarah Palin Floor for support - somewhere in the high 20s percent to low 30s percent, I’d wager. That’s millions of very stupid people that are cheerleading dumb things.

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    There are dumber ideas.

    Invading Mexico or Columbia ranks higher. You know countries with people who have experience fighting guerrilla wars and have existing relationships with arms dealers.

    Invading China probably takes top spot though. Don’t start land wars in Asia, especially with a peer state who has most of the world’s manufacturing capacity.

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      How is it dumber to exercise militiary actions, in countries that are already busy in the CIA schedule and does drug operations on a weakly basis, than attacking a god damn ally which hasn’t done US any harm what so ever?

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      Invading Mexico or Columbia ranks higher.

      The US has been conducting military actions in both countries for nearly a century. How many times do you have to bomb a place before you’re officially counted as “at war” with them?

      Invading China probably takes top spot though.

      We really really really don’t want China to regain control of Taiwan. I think it is very possible we get into a shooting war if a Chinese friendly government ever wins an election on the island.

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    The Americans will gain absolutely nothing that they don’t already have.

    Not true. They’ll gain the thing that they actually want, possible mineral and oil fields, even though nobody is asking for it. Trump sees dollar signs, even though as per usual it’s terrible business, but he has a military to enforce his wants so we’re all fucked

    Trump is a mobster wannabe if mobsters were just terribly dumb

    Even the oil companies don’t want Venezuela, yet he invaded it for them anyway

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      Also he probably looks at a Mercator projection map and thinks New Trumpistan would be just YUGE. Trump the great they will call him in his own imagining of history.

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      They already have access to mineral and oil rights in Greenland. This is literally just about the words on the map, just like Gulf of Mexico.

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        And we have a military base there, too.

        I think someone wrote some gaslighty DARVO piece in The Atlantic taking this “reasonable” position about how we “had” to acquire Greenland at any cost.

        I still don’t understand how any of their reasons are real reasons, other than Donvict wanting to feel like his tiny peen is yooooge and still works.

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      Anyone can get a mining license in Greenland right now. The reason they don’t is that it’s difficult to mine there.

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    As a member of a country that was until rather recently at war with Denmark, if the Americans want to fight the Danes, they’ll have to fight us too.