Senate Republicans are vowing to block any effort by Trump to seize Greenland by military force, as Trump officials on Wednesday refused to back off their demands to control the island during a meeting with top diplomats at the White House.
Republican senators are flummoxed by Trump’s insistence that he’s willing to use military force to seize control of Greenland from Denmark, something they fear will destroy the NATO alliance and give Russia a bigger advantage in its war against Ukraine.
Two Republican senators, Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), plan to travel to Copenhagen on Friday to assure the Danish prime minister that there would be strong Republican opposition to any effort by Trump to use military force to seize Greenland.
How many? If it’s 22 I’m ecstatic, if it’s 2 I’m unhappy, if it’s 52 I’m impressed.
Remember when an administration would have to petition Congress for a declaration of war rather than Congress moving to prevent a unilateral invasion/war? You know, like what is in the Constitution? Good times.
Never believe a conservative about anything that sounds humane or decent.
They set the beast loose and they still think they can reign it in lol I think at this point it wouldn’t matter even if they did do something.
Murkowski has been a trump enabler from day fucking one, she’s a lying piece of shit and a performative dissenter who only puts the vote against in when she knows it won’t have any impact on the results.
Right up until they bend the knee and approve billions in funding.
Yea right
I’ll believe it when I see it. So far, Republicans’ vows to go against Trump seem to have the same sticking power as their vows to their ex-wives.
It’s all a performance. These people — most of them anyway — are not stupid. They’re criminally corrupt sociopaths and psychopaths. They know their fascist oligarch financiers want Greenland to serve as their beta feudalist dictatorship.
Every single one of them is a part of the nazi regime.
Given that the Republicans just voted to allow Trump to unilaterally wage war in Venezuela, I have my doubts.
TBF, attacking Venezuela like we did has a lot of historical precedent. The US has a long history of deposing inconvenient Latin American leaders.
But engaging in an unprovoked war of conquest against one of our oldest allies? Collapsing our most important defensive alliance? This is an entirely different animal. There’s no precedent for an invasion of Greenland.
I thought the other times were CIA special ops where they “plane-crashed” some leaders for not allowing corporate plunder.
Exactly. The US has a history of making inconvenient Latin American leaders disappear. The means vary, but the impact is the same.
When was the last time we violently deposed a Western European head of state?
Hitler?
Hitler declared formal war upon the US.
These Republicans?
Random trivia:
In WW2 Greenland rejected Danish sovereignty because the nazis had captured the Danish government.
The US stepped up and filled the vacuum so that Canada, Norway, or anyone else would claim it, then just let them go back to the Danes after WW2.
Anyways, that’s why Greenland has been so cool with US military bases, and we just threw all of that goodwill away.
This will result in a lower US presence over there for decades, if it ever comes back.
It’s really breathtaking just how quickly the American hegemony was dismantled.
Yes and no… It literally took decades of meticulous propaganda and division sowing from online Russian (and other) operations, gradually increasing the divide, funding the fringiest groups, boosting the NRA, corrupting every forum, comment section and thread with bots, blackmailing every pedo they could find into going into politics and then backing other pedos… It took a lot of hard work for Putin’s wet dream to come to fruition like this! (I’m gonna puke)
Not really…
Our one advantage was we were one of a handful of industrialized nations whose manufacturing power wasn’t bombed to hell and back.
Plus, we still sent a shitton of young men to die, so after the war we had a small labor pool which is why factory workers could get a job at 16 and retire at 60 with a full pension.
But our population rebounded, workers became cheap, and then we just sent all of our manufacturing overseas to help corporate profits.
This was always going to happen eventually, it seems sudden but the process has been going on for 40 years at least. Like, it’s been ending for as long as it was going on at this point, there’s nothing quick about it.
And heartwarming
Even if they don’t buckle (they will), what do they think they can do to stop an invasion of Greenland? This administration has already proved many times that they just ignore all laws, objections, and limitations that are thrown their way.
Imagine showing this news article to someone in 1998 or 2000.
Or perhaps even 2015, which wasn’t that long ago.
It doesn’t feel that long ago to you, but for many of us, the last 11 years feel like 100,000 years
