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Tbf China claiming Taiwan is pretty bad.
Imagine if US claimed Hawaii is theirs.
A closer analogy would be: Imagine that after losing the Civil war, the Confederates flee to Puerto Rico, kill tens of thousands of people there for being "yankee sympathizers", and establish 40 years of martial law while claiming to be the true and rightful government of the entire continental US.
Still not a good analogy because Puerto Rico was never a state of the USA. It would be more like if Long Island had been invaded by England and occupied after England beat the US in a war, and then the US had a war to kick the English off long island and then had a civil war immediately afterward and the loser fled to Long Island and said "we are the rightful government of the USA" and then Spain came by and started arming the fuck out of them while the loser of the civil war ran a fascist dictatorship for 40 years and killed tens of thousands of its own people for ever saying "maybe we could just negotiate a final surrender?"
Yeah it's not perfect but I needed a small island off america lol
It's more akin to the US claiming the ex confederate southern states (which it does), and other countries being "strategically ambiguous" and selling the Confederate remnants weapons and promoting their independence while officially recognizing the US/Washington
Greenland as strategig against Rusia and China is anyway a stupid argument, due tthat Alaska is separated by 4 km from Rusia, in cold winters you can go walking from the US to Rusia, and China has only commercial trading interests with other countries, not imperialistic ones, like this orange piece of shit.
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Greenland is way closer to way more of Russia than Alaska
Look on the map, don't confuse a straight line distance on a sphere, the shortest distance from Greenland to Rusia go over the EU (Norway and Sweden), while in Alaska they need a simple Zodiac or even Walking in the Winter.
We're talking about missiles
Even with missiles there isn't any reason to invade Greenland, apart of a NATO member, there is already an US Base there since 50 years. No, Rusia and China are not the reason, but rare earth in Greenland are, like in Venezuela the oil, not the democracy.. The next is Panama and Canada in the expansions plan "to make America great again" (and the paria for the rest of the world).
Distance from the eastern most part of Russia to Moscow is 6300 km. It is literally on the other side of the planet, the longitude seperation is almost 200 degrees.
Do you know what that means? It is faster to go from Alaska through Canada, the Atlantic ocean, then through Europe to get to Moscow than it is to go by the eastern side of Russia.