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> neither the Canada nor Greenland thing is going to happen

Greenland is happening, and will be underway soon. It's just a matter of how much international support it will have initially, and how the USA will strong arm support.

Canada is on the back burner after the realization that a country with a leader who was the Governor of the national banks of two major countries might know a thing or two about economic warfare.

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> It's just a matter of how much international support it will have initially, and how the USA will strong arm support.

That's where i think France have dropped the ball with its last presidents. Any pre-2007 president would have already declared Greenland as "EU, thus France sovereign interest" and reiterated French nuclear doctrine since 1964 (One warning shot, then tactical nukes, aiming for the army/supply and not civilian infrastructure). Macron will never do that, because if you say it, you have to follow up.

de Gaulle absolutely would have done that and more, Pompidou and Giscard d'Estaing probably. Not sure about Mitterrand / Chirac.

Mitterand would have for sure. Coldest fucker who ever got elected. I think only Hollande ordered more people killed per year on average, but he had drone strikes to help, which skew the numbers. Chirac bombed its own territory just to show how effective the new nukes were.

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