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2025-01-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Trump refuses to rule out military force to take control of Greenland, Panama Canal
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Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 He is sounding more like Putin these days.
Posted by Dale 2025-01-08 02:48||   2025-01-08 02:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Breitbart Business Digest: How Much Would It Cost to Buy Greenland?
Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-08 06:52||   2025-01-08 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 
While, not believing 1/4 of what being dumped on us by the media about Trump, and usually right thinking so.

I do feel a lot of what we hear is a well planned deflection, to shift attention from other things amiss.
As Trump or maybe Vance takes office on the 20th.

However, given the growing CCP mass land purchases around the Panama Canal. It might require another US intervention to guard US trade routes.
Posted by NN2N1 2025-01-08 07:19||   2025-01-08 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 He should really stop this nonsense. All he does is giving Russia the perfect excuse for occupying all Ukraine and China for invading Taiwan.

The United States have no rights to Greenland, and Denmark is a Nato ally. This is no longer funny. Threats like these are unacceptable.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-01-08 10:35||   2025-01-08 10:35|| Front Page Top

#5 The United States have no rights to Greenland

Rights are in the eyes of the beholder.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-08 10:50||   2025-01-08 10:50|| Front Page Top

#6 No they are not.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-01-08 10:52||   2025-01-08 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ROTFL
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-08 11:01||   2025-01-08 11:01|| Front Page Top

#8 You may ask the Ukrainians if they find this point of view funny.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-01-08 11:09||   2025-01-08 11:09|| Front Page Top

#9 ^F*ck Ukrainians - with a telegraph pole.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-08 11:14||   2025-01-08 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Don't be so flippant Grom. A lot of people say the same thing about Israel and being on stolen ground.

Personally I think Trump is just trolling reporters for asking him the same questions for sensitive information. Optics look horrible, but most people will forget it in 2 years after these issues have been resolved or dropped.
Posted by DarthVader 2025-01-08 11:59||   2025-01-08 11:59|| Front Page Top

#11 ^And if they could, they'd wipe Israel out a long time ago. But, this time around Israel has an equalizer.
That's one. Two: Ukrainians started the war - now, they're getting the consequences.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-08 12:14||   2025-01-08 12:14|| Front Page Top

#12 "Ukrainians started the war"

And Poland invaded Germany in 1939?
Posted by European Conservative 2025-01-08 12:21||   2025-01-08 12:21|| Front Page Top

#13 ^8 years of shelling Russians in Donetsk and Luhansk.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-08 12:27||   2025-01-08 12:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Oh please.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-01-08 12:30||   2025-01-08 12:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Meanwhile, the same Chinese that took over the Panama Canal are cutting power and communications cables to the Baltic States and the Germans have a rationalization to explain that it's all really Trump's fault.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-01-08 13:05||   2025-01-08 13:05|| Front Page Top

#16 ^Well, they've been dreaming of conquering Russia for a 1000 years.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-08 13:08||   2025-01-08 13:08|| Front Page Top

#17 You may ask the Ukrainians if they find this point of view funny.

If you were actually defending the Baltic States from Russia's ally we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-01-08 13:14||   2025-01-08 13:14|| Front Page Top

#18 #13 wow Grom. Way to swallow that propaganda hook line and sinker. Reminds me of out people spout the Protocols of Zion
Posted by DarthVader 2025-01-08 13:27||   2025-01-08 13:27|| Front Page Top

#19 ^Are you claiming there wasn't 8 years of shelling?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-08 13:29||   2025-01-08 13:29|| Front Page Top

#20 The question was military or ECONOMIC coercion. Get the cheese out of your ears, surrender monkeys.
Posted by Regular joe 2025-01-08 13:38||   2025-01-08 13:38|| Front Page Top

#21 Ukrainians started the war

Hmmm. Here I thought it was NATO...or maybe Victoria Nuland. Putin acted to keep NATO out of Ukraine. OK, call it an invasion if you must but it looks to me like he had some good reasons.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-08 14:23||   2025-01-08 14:23|| Front Page Top

#22 But they look like such a lovely couple that I'd hate to go to war against them.



Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-08 14:26||   2025-01-08 14:26|| Front Page Top

#23 All I know is the same people who set up a base of operations in Ukraine and backed the Elenskyy coup also did Libya, toppled Egypt, backed once a future ISIS in order to overthrow at least Syria, and came within a John Kerry gaff of air striking everyone in the Middle East not on board Team Obama while putting Israel into a pincer, and didn't give a fk while ISIS overran Iraq until the atrocities couldn't be hid anymore.

Argue whether that deserves a hot war or not, but that is a shitty neighbor with an agenda based history of unprovoked violence, like having a gang backed drug house next door.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-01-08 14:54||   2025-01-08 14:54|| Front Page Top

#24 All he does is giving Russia the perfect excuse for occupying all Ukraine and China for invading Taiwan.

Seems like a possible settlement.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-08 15:39||   2025-01-08 15:39|| Front Page Top

#25 I think I'll take a 4 year holiday from Rantburg.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-01-08 15:50||   2025-01-08 15:50|| Front Page Top

#26 
Posted by badanov 2025-01-08 16:29||   2025-01-08 16:29|| Front Page Top

#27 EC. Trump is not invading anybody. He like the new leader of Panama. He also likes Denmark. I don’t think we are buying or annexing Greenland. Trump is making the point that importing resources from Russia is dumb. Greenland has the resources you need. Don’t sell them to the Chinese.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-01-08 16:55||   2025-01-08 16:55|| Front Page Top

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