Pat Rice in Short Shorts wrote:theHotHead wrote:What the hell is going on with all this Greenland sabre rattling ???
Trump cannot be serious lol !! I mean he has come out with some crazy shit before and gone ahead and done it but this is an entirely different level of madness !
In the words of John McEnroe, you cannot be serious !
A stupid question from the media and they get knicker twisted. What will happen is that Greenlanders will vote, in March I think it is, to gain their independence from Denmark and a deal will be struck. Egede said yesterday that would be the case. not a surprise to him. One to really watch is Poilievre and Trump when Canada gets its new PM. Don't pay any attention Trump trolling Trudeau or the EU. One would think everyone would get how Trump operates by now!
This one will happen for sure with liberty and sovereignty for all! One of last European colonies will be free.

Yes, we know how Trump operates—like an idiot and like a fascist. His worst instincts were curbed in his first term, but this time around there will be a lot less pushback so there's really no way to know what will happen.
I don't for a second think he's bluffing or "negotiating" with any of his rhetoric around Canada/Greenland/Panama Canal. I think he's copying Putin. He saw Putin and Russia grab territory in Ukraine and, in his mind, he needs to do the same to prove he is "tough and strong" like Putin.
This is how Trump's brain works. He doesn't understand anything about geopolitics, e.g. that the US already de facto controls Canada and the Panama Canal with soft power and would gain absolutely nothing even if they were to genuinely annex these territories without any resistance.
He simply wants to project power and wants to be feared/liked and appear strong. Whether he can transform the military and get in generals who will obey his crazy requests remains to be seen.
But ultimately, even if he fails, and his term ends up being an uneventful compromise between him and the so-called establishment (aka sane people who don't want to destroy the world) the damage he's done is already irreversible. American people no longer believe in elections, democracy, courts, free media, rule of law, or respect any institutions. The rules-based order in America is dead and the country is ripe for a full-on autocrat to take power.