Trump is what the 25th Amendment is for
The U.S. does not need to possess Greenland for national security reasons. Donald Trump, backed by his band of imperialist bootlickers, wants to possess it for “personal problem” reasons. Or else for Vladimir Putin’s reasons.
The New York Times’ David E. Sanger explained to the president that by treaty the U.S. has access to expand or build new bases in Greenland for defense purposes. Why does he insist that the U.S. own it?
President Trump
Really it is, to me, it’s ownership. Ownership is very important.
David E. Sanger
Why is ownership important here?
President Trump
Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success. I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document, that you can have a base.
The man is an avaricious moron.
Trump stated again on Wednesday:
Q: Are Greenland’s limits going to be respected?
TRUMP: Well, we’re gonna see what happens with Greenland. We need Greenland for national security. If we don’t go in Russia is gonna go in and China is gonna go in. And there’s not a thing that Denmark can do about it. But we can do everything about it
We, along with NATO member states, Denmark included, can do “everything about it” right now. An invasion of Greenland by Russia or China is unthinkable. It would mean World War III, one which would advantage Russia’s and China’s territorial ambitions. Unless Trump himself orders U.S. forces to attack the territory of another NATO country (Denmark) and sparks one himself.
Malcolm Nance, former naval intelligence officer, foreign policy analyst and pundit, on Monday described in scathing detail what a fool move Trump is contemplating. In his best-case scenario, “NATO stays together but without us.” If the alliance holds, 31 countries go to war with the United States over Donald Trump’s psychological problems. That is unless a mass refusal by our professional military to obey illegal orders stops it before it starts. (Fingers crossed, if it comes to that.)
A 21st century ‘Twilight Zone’
Our NATO allies stand aghast watching their once steadfast ally led by a madman (France 24):
European countries were sending small numbers of military personnel to Greenland on Thursday as Denmark and its allies prepared for exercises to try to assure US President Donald Trump of its security as he pushes to acquire the island.
A meeting of officials from the United States, Denmark and Greenland on Wednesday avoided the type of public humiliation meted out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last year, but also produced no quick fix for the dispute.
“The American ambition to take over Greenland is intact,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a written comment to Reuters on Thursday, describing a “fundamental disagreement”.
“That is of course serious, and therefore we continue our efforts to prevent this scenario becoming a reality.”
[…]
Germany, France, Sweden and Norway have said they are sending military staff to begin preparations for larger drills later this year.
All this because a petulant man-child lacking “vast mental powers” but with command of the world’s mightiest military threatens to wish the post-war order into “the cornfield” should it refuse to publicly bow and scrape before his every whim the way cowed members of his cabinet do.
“Russia’s objective is not seizing NATO territory but causing the collapse of the alliance,” write Elena Davlikanova and Yevhenii Malik for The Atlantic Council. If, as some allege, Trump were actually a Russian asset, would he be acting any differently? Perhaps more critically, in 25th Amendment terms, does Trump lack the capacity to know the difference?
David French assesses Trump’s calculus regarding Greenland (if one could call it that) in the New York Times:
Bullying Denmark to seize Greenland would be the equivalent of threatening a friend to steal his car after he already let you borrow it. The friendly gesture is nice and all, but isn’t it better if the car is yours? Aren’t you wealthier if you can add it to your collection?
In the mercenary calculus of Donald Trump, morality is meaningless — unless it’s his morality, of course, and his morality places no constraints on his will to power and his greed.
Trump is what the 25th Amendment is for. If there are any leaders left in these United States with any courage, they need to agree, and to act on that agreement, to strip Trump of the powers he’s maliciously wielding before he destroys the North Atlantic Alliance and the post-war order, or before he puts somebody’s eye out.
Indeed, his goons have already accomplished the latter:
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