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- world@lemmy.world
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- world@lemmy.world
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
Sources say that the policy ‘hawks’ around the US President, led by political adviser Stephen Miller, have been so emboldened by the success of the operation to capture Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro that they want to move quickly to seize the island before Russia or China makes a move.
British diplomats believe that Trump is also motivated by a desire to distract American voters from the performance of the US economy before the mid-term elections later this year, after which he could lose control of Congress to the Democrats.
I find it weird that they try to frame it as “before China or Russia makes a move”. Sure, they may have info the rest of us don’t, but there has been nothing indicating Russia is even able to sail there, let alone actually try to take the island from NATO. China doesn’t seem to give half a shit what the west is doing. They keep doing nothing, and it keeps working, because USA just won’t stop shooting themselves in the foot.
Meanwhile USA already has a base on Greenland (plural if you count the radioactive mess they couldn’t be bothered to clean up, and just let disappear in the ice), and carte blanche to do whatever the fuck they want to anywhere on the island.
Trump does have access to information that we don’t. He also has access to extremely knowledgeable advisors. But he chooses to ignore those and just goes by what FOX News says and gut feeling instead.
They function in bad faith, any kind of fact will never matter and they’ll always invent an enemy for the public to be distracted with