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As an American, we've had to watch this administration almost directly defy our own Supreme Court. A "warning" from Greenland or Denmark that doesn't include ordnance pointed at those shipping containers isn't going to mean anything.

The tagline of the Trump administration is "who's going to stop me?"

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We've elected a president who couldn't care less about the country, much less its allies, has no knowledge or experience relevant to governing, and who chooses his underlings based solely on their looks and sycophancy. It's a fun experiment!

> We've elected a president who couldn't care less about the country,

Worse: from day one, he enacted a playbook designed to sabotage the country within and abroad. This administration is a wet dream for every US adversary.

This is the story the historians will write. If you think the idea of Trump being owned by one or more adversaries is preposterous, read about some of the high-level penetrations of governments in the 20th century. Worse than Willy Brandt.

Sources? Links? References? Names? Would you mind dropping some clues of what you are talking about?

Seriously? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...

Since you demand links and names and blah blah, how about a point by point rebuttal of all the connections in the article linked above?

*Re-elected

Given the other tagline is TACO[1], I guess the “who's going to stop me?” is less rhetorical and more literal.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out

What’s Greenland going to do? Make a strongly worded statement? They’re kinda out of options.

Seize the equipment and people.

... and expect the executive branch to be maduro-ed away into some secret cia torture place or straight Guantanamo

It's an open question. Will Europe rally behind Denmark in WW3 NATO vs USA, or will we see transatlantic appeasement?

There is a negative chance of Europe going to war against the USA

Seriously that's the most likely outcome here. Everyone on the ground gets detained and deported. And loses a bunch of money.

How do you figure they are out of options?! There are many steps between mere statements and actual war. Economic sanctions for one.

The TACOs have never been unilateral, you need some sort of pain they care about. The bond market spiking interest rates contained the worst of the tariffs, SCOTUS rulings have curtailed some of his more egregious abuses, protests and their fallout (innocent people getting killed) helped to contain ICE.

Denmark and/or Greenland needs to seize those containers, keep them under armed guard, and then give Greenland Energy a reasonable deadline to come and retrieve them or else they'll be destroyed.

I don't see the contradiction. "Who's going to stop me?" implies that the expectation is for no one to stop him. But when someone eventually does, it's TACO time.

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