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legitster · 2 months ago
I keep thinking of Caesar crossing the Rubicon.

Congress has no power, the courts leave it to congress (lol). Every agency has been purged of anyone willing to put up resistance. Checks and balances and the Constitution are essentially meaningless.

To be fair, this is not necessarily new for America. People forget that much of the 1800s was ruled by the spoils system and imperialist, nationalistic presidents. The difference is none of them ruled over the largest standing military in the world or the linchpins of the global economy.

mongol · 2 months ago
I think the same, but the Rubicon was Jan 6 2021. That was when he showed his true colors. What we see now are just the consequences
altmanaltman · 2 months ago
Not ready for "Et tu JD" in a few years

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treetalker · 2 months ago
US–Denmark Treaty of the Danish West Indies:

> During 1916, the two sides agreed to a sale price of $25,000,000, and the United States accepted a Danish demand for a declaration stating that they would "not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indi...

msie · 2 months ago
Congress needs to step in and stop this insanity!
0928374082 · 2 months ago
How about the people? You all could help your members of congress find their gonads.
walls · 2 months ago
Nobody is coming to help.

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LarsDu88 · 2 months ago
The last state of the union, everyone in Congress laughed when he suggested it.

They keep pushing this to shift the Overton window, an the shocking thing is that right leaning Americans just keep brushing stuff like this off. America will gain nothing, but NATO would be split apart. Exactly what Putin wanted.

password54321 · 2 months ago
Greenland the new Czechoslovakia?
tizzy · 2 months ago
Hopefully we’ve learnt our lesson about appeasement
0928374082 · 2 months ago
Here is a recent picture, taken during discussions about Greenland: https://bilder.deutschlandfunk.de/72/d7/aa/c5/72d7aac5-be14-...

You probably recognise the woman on the left, the PM of Denmark.

You may not recognise the dude on the right, but he comes from a country that gave us the motto which vocally expresses the solidarity he is physically expressing in the pic: "all for one, and one for all"

https://www.elysee.fr/en/emmanuel-macron/2026/01/06/joint-st...

DeH40 · 2 months ago
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history
msie · 2 months ago
One thing that could possibly stop Trump is if it is not a cake-walk to take Greenland and there are American casualties.