Sam Lowry said:Not remotely like we have in the last three years.sombear said:I am not at all concerned about poking the Russian bear. We've been provoking each other for decades, and that will never stop.Redbrickbear said:sombear said:Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:It's you guys who've been griping for several years about focusing inward and not spending gobs of money on foreign interests. Yet here we are with Trump wanting to literally expand our territorial and/or hegemonic footprint in Canada, Greenland, and Panama,Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:It's more like you're allergic to logic and self awareness. I'm not arguing against the Greenland move (except taking it by force). I only pointed out the strange twist in position relative to overt imperialism when suggested by Trump..Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:The same way Blackrock and the defense contractors you gripe about? It isn't the U.S. government that would be mining for minerals, or running a canal.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:
And some of you thought the Ukraine war support was expensive. Just wait until you see the price tag on these moves.
Greenland and the Panama Canal would provide actual revenue to the treasury….Ukraine provides nothing but a economic drain
Not to mention the whole endless proxy war with a nuclear power thing as DC spends billions trying to tear it out of the Russian orbit
Would those defense contractors be getting us into a costly proxy war over Greenland like in Ukraine against a nuclear armed power?
Amazing…its like your allergic to anything that would help the American people…and addicted to anything harms regular Americans
Calling a simple business deal "imperialism" is where your logic goes wrong from the start.
There is nothing imperialist about the USA offering to buy a underpopulated and under used territory from Denmark
Made even worse because you tried to tie it to your pathetic and clownish Ukraine war mongering
Again your logic is very flawed
You are 100% ok with gross imperialism (coups in eastern Europe to install new governments loyal to DC....that then spark off massive proxy wars against a regional power)
You just don't like voluntary expansion in our own sphere of influence (North America) that could help average Americans via economic and geo-strategic means
Buying Greenland, buying back the Panama Canal, potentially letting oil rich Alberta possibly join the USA would all be very very beneficial to us with low cost.
Your dump neo-liberal wars in frozen lands east of the Bug river give the average American nothing....and could end up being a civilizational disaster of epic portions if things go nuclear
Putin: "We're watching U.S. Greenland actions very closely."
He is scared of the USA dominating the arctic and having access to the vast resources of Greenland
I thought you guys hated russia and loved anything they disliked?
(ps putin does not need excuses to invade the ethnic russian parts of ukraine....he has already been doing that for years)This map of Russian military bases in the Arctic and of potential shipping lanes through the Arctic Ocean makes it really clear why Greenland is essential to America’s national security pic.twitter.com/CqaEIEif3I
— Ethan Isaacson (@ethan1saacson) January 8, 2025
Having Greenland also puts most of Russia under threat from U.S. air power & Missiles and gives us radar warning stations in the event of a future conflict.![]()
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