The Trump Thread

[EricHiggin]

Qwark said:

Vinther1991 said:

Doesn’t really sound like the words of “allies” does it?

Boost their defense against who? America would be the aggressor in that case. Trump should just stay the fuck out of these countries, he cannot even run his own, he can’t even defend americans against americans nor can he figure out how to boost the economy of the US.

If that's the case you can hardly blame these allies from turning to China. If USA invades Greenland NATO is finished, the European countries might recycle it to a new form without US. There will also be a rift between Europe and US and they will be allies no longer. In which case Europe will probably decouple from US and backtrack decoupling from China.

There will be trade between US and EU, because both can't miss it. But that's it, no common agenda, no common goals, no defence cooperation, nothing. Which is partly a problem for US and EU. For US since their bases in Europe were quite valuable in the Middle East wars. They also could be useful for a big invasion of Iran.

For Europe because defending the Baltics without nukes in the Baltics or Nordic countries is impossible. Though there is not a lot to gain in the Baltic for Russia to begin with aside from pride. Finland could quite easily flatten Sint Petersburg as countermeasure. Since it's in striking range, which would be a massive breach of the Geneva convention and would be a defacto genocide. However it's something Russia might not be willing to risc for a symbolic victory.

Who says the USA needs to invade? There's more civilized ways to conduct the matter.

Though even if Trump did make an offer too good to refuse, if Greenland wanted it, and Denmark refused, then who's really going to legitimately get upset if the USA were to invade after? Now if Greenland didn't want it, then that's another matter, but still, what's anyone really going to be able to do at this point?