re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

I don't think it's a distraction. I think Trump wants to expand America's borders and thinks he's found a way. I think he's dead serious about running again as president and is a power hungry old-coot.

The Boomers are literally going to destroy democracy.

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I think he's dead serious about running again as president and is a power hungry old-coot.

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You’re a lunatic.

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It would be more accurate to call it "the Fifth Column."

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I wouldn’t argue that you aren’t correct.

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I don't think it's a distraction. I think Trump wants to expand America's borders and thinks he's found a way. I think he's dead serious about running again as president and is a power hungry old-coot.

The Boomers are literally going to destroy democracy

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Round of applause for a "military analyst" folks

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Greenland like Iceland, Norway, Canada, etc. are all defended under the NATO umbrella. The US doesn’t need to own it to defend it or position our military there for other purposes.

Is this all a distraction? It seems with Ukraine, Iran, Gaza, and Venezuela all at the fire front do we need to get all bent out of shape about Greenland?

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I will just keep repeating what is becoming more and more obvious...

Trump believes in a world where the U.S., Russia and China are the three big dominant powers each controlling their own hemispheres of influence... he believes Russia will conquer Europe... and thinks that's fine, might makes right, and he prefers Putin to European leaders.

As arctic ice melts, shipping routes will change to go through the arctic more regularly... making shipping from Russia and China much easier that way, and making Greenland and its territorial waters more important...

But, Greenland is also full of natural resources the usual types are dying to get their hands on, and are pushing him to do it. Citizen K will probably now pop in to tell which resources, etc.

In a masterstroke of diplomatic timing, Vladimir Putin has extended an unconditional olive branch to Europe, declaring Russia ready to "restore diplomatic relations with all European countries, without any expectations". This announcement comes at the precise moment the transatlantic alliance is collapsing under the weight of the Greenland crisis.

The contrast is stark and calculated. While the United States (under Trump/Musk) is threatening tariffs, declaring NATO allies "incompetent," and demanding territory (Greenland), Russia is presenting itself as the "reasonable" alternative, offering stability and energy security with "no strings attached".

This move is designed to exploit the "Puppet Master" narrative exposed by Elon Musk. Musk told the world that Western leaders are "actors" controlled by hidden forces; Putin is effectively offering these leaders a new script. By appealing to the "Old Guard" of Europe (symbolized by the imagery of Merkel and Macron), Putin is proposing a "Eurasian Peace" that excludes the chaotic, demanding Americans. It is the final wedge to separate the "Fortress America" from the European continent.

371 is more than one per day, and these are just in Russia itself, none counted were in occupied territory.

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Trump believes in a world where the U.S., Russia and China are the three big dominant powers each controlling their own hemispheres of influence... he believes Russia will conquer Europe... and thinks that's fine, might makes right, and he prefers Putin to European leaders.

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I think Trump plays hardball with Europe mostly because he is still mad about how European leaders treated him during Trump admin 1. I think that's extremely childish, and I'm not one to shy away from criticizing Trump, but that is just a bunch of fan fiction

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I think Trump plays hardball with Europe mostly because he is still mad about how European leaders treated him during Trump admin 1. I think that's extremely childish, and I'm not one to shy away from criticizing Trump, but that is just a bunch of fan fiction

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Europe has been screwing US manufacturing, for decades, with regs solely to exclude US products. Additionally, while European nations have anti bribery laws for any of their companies working overseas, they don't enforce them at all, while the US does. They use bribery to undercut superior US companies. As long as those companies bring those profits back to invest at home, its isn't even taxed, even if taxes are on paper.

For countries the US has sanctioned, or banned sales to, European countries, and especially Canada, have ordered those same products and sold to where banned. Lots and lots of oilfield drilling equipment went to Libya and the USSR via Canada and France

As far as Canada, they took over at least the nickel mining in Cuba, developed by US based American Metal Climax, aka AMAX, which had built a giant nickel ore processing plant south of New Orleans at Braithwaite.

The French housed the Ayatollah and leading clerics at Neufchateau for years before they and the UK flew them into Iran long after the protests had been underway in Iran, late 1970's.

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and thinks that's fine, might makes right,

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The way he is threatening to take Greenland if the Danes won't sell makes me believe he does believe in this instance might makes right. You just don't threaten to invade another NATO nation.