Trump's obsession with Greenland is just so monumentally stupid, even depraved, that it's a struggle to make sense of it. Of course, it's a struggle to make sense of gutting moneys to research cancer, but here we are. It seems the push to annex Greenland might be a product of some of the following factors:
- Trump sees both the size of Greenland on a Mercator projection and heard that it has a bunch of rare earths, so his smooth brain thinks it will make him a great president.
- Trump is actively trying to blow up NATO, and this is an easy way to do so.
- Trump doesn't care about NATO one way or another, he just wants to bully another country and express his contempt for Europe as a whole. This would be part of his Donroe Doctrine.
We also have to consider that the various creatures around Trump have varying agendas and that they can easily manipulate him, using some combination of the above. That seems to be sort of what happened with Venezuela, where Miller's rabid racism, Rubio's anti-socialism and Hegseth's bloodthirstiness all allow for different levers to be pulls in pursuit of the same end. Whether it's "Kill Brown People", "Topple a Dictator" or "Thing Go Boom" they could all agree to push this mission. There is considerably less consensus among Republicans about actively taking over Venezuela.
With Greenland, we are once again at the fickle mercies of Republicans finding their spine and principles. There are quite a few Republicans that still believe in NATO and might oppose this, but it's essential that they be on the record NOW, before Mango Mussolini commits another war crime.
There is just TOO MUCH NEWS right now, but this is a big one.
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