Isn't that the exact opposite of what they had been talking about doing?
Edit: also it's not a question of US law, by attempting to "annex" foreign territory you're committing an act of war no matter what your domestic laws say.
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I'm starting to think the government might be corrupt!
We have no government. The US is now run by the Mafia.
I was being sarcastic if you couldn't tell. Politicians are stereotyped as liars because the majority have always been controlled by money and power. They are and have always been mere figureheads.
If I couldn't tell that was sarcastic, then I need to just get off the net now. Permanently.
Regardless, I stand by what I said. They at one time were merely "money and power," but now they've left the veneer of civility behind, and have gone full thuggery - effectively Mafia.
An ally…
America. if taking your democracy, arresting citizens for being brown, excusing ICE executions, siccing military on you, piracy, committing child rape and hiding it and protecting his friends wasn’t enough to make you rise up for good; then please let it be his direct threat to attack a country you have been in an alliance with for many many years.
A country whose soldiers walked in front of yours in Iraq and Afghanistan, because they didn’t think you were equipped to walk in front. The country that let you build a military base on Greenland, even let you store nuclear weapons there… If not this, what will it take for you, to fix the problem your countrymen has made for the world? What will it take?
Simple. It will take pissing off the world until a coalition forms and the US is invaded.
The world is passive these days, and the US smells blood in the water. To them, it is the perfect opportunity to attempt a world conquest, where all countries outside the US are replaced with client states, such as the Confederation of the Rhine.
Why not you?
If I resist, I will die, or be taken prisoner, and then die.
I still have business to attend to before my untimely death. It's too soon.
This is why fascists are winning...
You're quite right. But I don't really care anymore. As long as I die of cardiac arrest before I lose my faculties, then it's all fine. I'm hoping my heart calls it quits in about 20 to 30 years - that matches up with my schedule perfectly.
Yeah, fuck everybody else.
Exactly. There's no guarantee they actually exist.
Traitors in the House.
An invasion of Greenland, which is an overseas territory of Denmark, could trigger a NATO response under Article 5 of the organization's charter.
Welp, time to start digging a bomb shelter. In this mad dash to return to the pre-WWII era of imperialism, it feels like our leaders don’t remember that right after that there was a really nasty world war.
Not how that works, bootlicker
Slurp, slurp.
Exactly. It’s not as if Trump would need some form of legal justification in the first place, this is just a massive suck up.