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I’m pretty sure if you took out Trump and Stephen miller, maybe Vance, America would forget about Greenland.
I mean, they've set a precedent where they're ok with taking out political leaders from other countries. It would be fair.
Ding ding ding, this right here
The Cheeto set the precedent that it'd okay to take out the leader directly, do the same
Then Russia and China too, please
Don't forget the Heritage Foundation
Honestly, I don't hate the precedent of holding heads of state personally accountable for the actions of their countries. Wars would be a lot better if we just made our leaders and corporations do the fighting, but you know what? I bet we wouldn't even have them anymore.
If the U.S. ends up attacking Greenland, that's going to open up a whole can of fucked worms to deal with. Presumably the rest of NATO would have to step in. What of all the American soldiers that are stationed in our countries? Will they be taken as prisoners? Do we send them home? In body bags?
The annoying thing is that Russia would probably take it as a signal to start invading Europe.
Start? Ukraine is in Europe.
To be fair, they haven't really gotten all that much invading done recently, they've mostly just been squatting on the parts they managed to captured back in 2022.
I am kinda morbidly curious what would happen if they did decide to start invading some other countries - splitting their forces feels like it would be a terrible idea if their aim is to ever actually manage to win the Ukrainian war, and not just stall it forever.
I live close to a few US military installations. Good question. AFAIK they're guarded by our own federal police and policed by US MPs. These bases don't have notable armories or military equipment. I don't think they'd have any other choice than to surrender. They weren't ever conceived to be bases in a battleground.
Other countries do military based differently than the US. America is essentially an "all expeditionary" force that is expected to deploy and fight pretty much everywhere EXCEPT the US.
Militaries in the EU (and pretty much everywhere else except maybe the UK) are prepared to fight within they own borders if called upon to do so.
That's part of why European aircraft often need to have short runway capabilities because a lot of countries have plans that include utilizing highways as military airfields.
We will just force them to build infastructure
This is a good idea. Give them a taste of the good life, and overthrow the American fascist state from within.
If you just look at the NATO treaty intervention by other nations isn't necessary. Only when a nation is attacked by a non NATO nation
Probably because the NATO didn’t anticipate infighting I’d guess. I’m Swedish though, so the Nordic Defence Cooperation still applies.
We’ve all been all “I got you!” at one another these past few years so if we now don’t follow up. Well… yikes!
hm so Putin should have join NATO before invading Ukraine ?