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Furthermore, the native populations of those western territories would probably like to have a word over UK & European rights to assert such privileges in the first place.
more than 200_000 people signed it & some in the hackernews comments even appreciated it with things like saying about healthcare etc.
so I can see it as a real possibility but this would invoke force given that US states cannot unilaterally secede from the union.
Edit: Forgot to write to be, my bad. Thanks to dragonwriter for seeing the edit as I agree that without the to be, the whole context completely changes
https://www.newsweek.com/petition-denmark-buy-california-sig...
You left out “to be” between “California gets” and “part of”, which rather substantially misrepresents the petition.
> This isn’t particularly well know, but Russia has had nuclear weapons since 1949. I suspect this is why European countries have not adopted a more aggressive posture towards Russia in Ukraine.
Oh yeah, my apologies. Let me fix it, Sorry about that!! Yea my bad.
I understand why I got downvoted. Fair, yea its misrepresented I meant denmark gets california (edit: looks like I had made the same mistake here too lmao now fixed)
This will also force the US to fix its fiscal policy to avoid a debt spiral as the cost to borrow increases. To provide cheap credit to the US enables a bully who spends with no responsibility.
Also probably EU should co-ordinate with different countries who are holding US treasuries and if they get screwed (China,Japan,Australia etc.) then these other countries can have net loss as well. (which can impact these countries internally to prevent EU from investing in their currencies worried about what if EU might plug in again, yes I know EU is in the right regarding the greenland crisis but still it's not about if EU would be right but if EU would be capable to go and do this & what's the definition/criteria required for them to do such.
The most loss would still be of America though but still EU might still face some loss too (comparatively small to America)
I do believe that this can weaken US so much that it might trigger insurrection act or similar and we are saying US act so unreasoable regarding greenland right now, I am 99% sure that a nuclear war would feel imminent if this happens and would have a genuine impact on QOL of European and America and the world in general too.
Sure america might lose more but there has to still be a proper discussion on what's really valuable right now & if this would make this geopolitical sense, then we will see it happen.
I do beleive that even this 8 billion is start. We might not see an immediate 8T $ worth of bonds sellout just now. But we might definitely get to around 10% (800 billion) imo in slow chunks imo.
Europe's probably trying to get the world on its side and forming alliances right now.
Europe's problem is there's about as much chance of this succeeding as of Taiwan conquering mainland China. Decades of prioritising welfare over warfare and economic growth have left Europe technologically and militarily completely unable to compete with the US, in spite of Europe's significantly larger population. Europe couldn't kick Russia, a country with 10x lower GDP and a decrepit army, out of Ukraine; how could it hope to deny any land to the US?
This isn’t particularly well know, but Russia has had nuclear weapons since 1949. I suspect this is why European countries have not adopted a more aggressive posture towards Russia in Ukraine. For some odd reason, no nuclear powers have ever invaded each other or declared war on each other since nuclear weapons were invented, aside from some bitchy slapfights in Kashmir. NATO is a de facto nuclear power, with (3) of the member states being nuclear states.
Considering how difficult Russia's advances have been inside the Ukraine in the past couple of years, it would be trivial to "kick Russia out of Ukraine" if a few big players in the EU actually tried to do it.
And you know why they won’t do that, right? Would anyone risk a new Hiroshima in their own country to save the Donbas?
Putin is stretched very thin and this fiasco in the Ukraine has shown that Russia can barely take on one country, even though once they were touting themselves as equal or better than the US.
Seriously, I'll grant the most advanced stuff is American but you really think everybody else only has sticks, stones, and water pistols?
Regardless, most EU nations do spend relatively little on their military compared to the U.S., hence the reliance.
Sorry to break it to you.
– Drax, Guardians of the Galaxy
This omnipresent talking point is ridiculous. You know what the EU prioritized over out economic growth? Budget stability. That's why the US has 50% more debt as share of GDP than the EU does. (And that's arguably a mistake given the low growth in the EU since the financial crisis because of that policy, but it has nothing to do with Welfare vs Warfare. Quite this opposite actually, the US would even be a much richer country if it had spent all the GWOT money on Welfare instead).
The EU as a whole? Maybe. Now do, say, France.
You look like you are cherry picking.
> You look like you are cherry picking.
Well, I'm taking the aggregate data, you pick one country in particular, who is cherry picking again?
Meanwhile, USA basically capitulated to Russia.
Talking with the Zed patriots they are convinced that CIA created nazis in UYkraine and also forced Putin to start this "special" operation, somehow Putin is a genius but at the same time IA tricked him or corced him to start a war that is in the 4th year of the 3 day operation.