However, the rest of NATO has nothing to gain from throwing their whole military at the US in the Western Hemisphere. They certainly can’t win that conflict, so what would be the point? Just to kill hundreds of thousands of their troops?
They should know that the Americans aren’t going to kill the residents anyway, so it’s really just an idiotic dick-waving contest that Trump wants. The smart move would be to diplomatically retaliate and just screw with the US economically, to extract a concession from the next US President, who won’t have such obtuse ideas and will be eager to make the consequence of this self-inflicted jackassery (like no Americans allowed to visit the EU, EU regulators banning Google and Apple devices, etc) go away.
One nice thing about US Americans: they're always so optimistic!
One day Rabinovich is browsing the local news site, as is his habit, and he clicks it away but somehow a chatbot still pops up on his screen:
— Moishe :tada:, we notice that you only come to our site once a day, and not only do you not doomscroll, you don't even scroll past the fold. :-( Is there anything we could do to improve your engagement?
— No, no, I only come to check the obituaries.
— But the obituaries are in their own section, linked from the footer. You never even see the footer!
— Believe you me, this obituary will be above the fold.
> what would be the point?
a Danish poem from 1940:
Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain,
of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.
(a) we've heard "spheres of influence" before, and seen Fall Blau happen anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpE_xMRiCLE
(b) distances:
1'400 km Nuuk <-> Reykjavik*
3'300 km Nuuk <-> Washington DC
* I saw a map in a major US paper last night that somehow was missing Iceland completely. Do you all even have fact checkers anymore?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41564406
(who'd want to invade IE anyway? They have no culture beyond a pair of shite gaelic rappers and they're so backward they still travel on horseback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8 )
chrisjj•1d ago
In his interview with CNN, Miller said it was "the formal position of the US government that Greenland should be part of the US".
He went on: "By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? What is their basis of claiming Greenland as a colony of Denmark?"
aebtebeten•1d ago
> The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity ... of any of the Parties is threatened.
https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/official-texts-and-resource...
What will the US Government longitudinally lay claim to next? The ESA Spaceport?
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Eu...
(on the other hand, unlike Denmark, France does have two legs of a triad, so maybe they're waiting a bit before pressing that one; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46506749 )
mongol•1d ago
aebtebeten•1d ago
Perhaps I am just paranoid*, but given the chatter concerning spheres of influence, I would not rule out a DJT/VVP version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact#:~:tex...
* other unusual logistics: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/05/us-planes-moni...
mongol•20h ago
aebtebeten•10h ago
But I guess the reason they aren't bothering is because we all already know the answer.
aebtebeten•7h ago
With IS and NO on board, the only non-EU NATO members left are AL, CA, MK, TR, and UK. I don't think AL and MK have much in the way of force projection; CA is a pity* (what about TR?); and Airstrip One would have danced to the Great Nation Builder's tune anyway.
* a joke I once heard back in the States:
— So, what do you think of Canada, eh?
— We don't. But wait until we run out of natural resources; then we'll think of you...
treetalker•1d ago
> During 1916, the two sides agreed to a sale price of $25,000,000, and the United States accepted a Danish demand for a declaration stating that they would "not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indi...
AnimalMuppet•1d ago
For that matter, by what right does the US assert control over Venezuela?
jerlam•19h ago