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IMO NATO’s focus should be on reinforcing the Canadian border with the US and make Americans realize that Trump is brining war to their doorstep if moving on Greenland. Mark Carney should be the American sounding face of the reasonable free world, pleading to the US to not let it happen. Hopefully a critical mass of Americans would side against the war and stop it before it happens.
As a Canadian, obviously I would take an help offered, but I do strongly believe that Greenland is where we need to draw the line in the sand. Again, I don't think Trump has the stomach for an actual war. I think he knows how much that would sink his popularity with the people who most strongly support him. A war with Canada would be an especially difficult sell.
I'm not remotely dismissing the possibility that it could happen. Trust me, my wife is in the CAF, she'd be on the front fucking line if it did. There's shit I know that I can't even fucking talk about when it comes to those kinds of conversations. But I think the key here is that he's really looking for quick easy wins. That's Trump's whole mentality. It's all about what you can steal before anyone notices you got away with it. He's a conman and a thief by nature. Greenland is where NATO can show Trump the will to stand up to him, and deny him the easy, cheap wins that he wants. It won't end the threat, but at this point I'm really not sure if anything NATO does can end the threat of the US without a world war. I think the only thing, realistically, that can be done is to buy time for the people in America to get their fucking shit together and end this nightmare.
Americans can't stop themselves from telling other countries what to even when they want other countries to solve their problems for them.
The US will be stopped but it's gone beyond Trump. It won't be anything flashy to entertain Americans that enjoy watching people die on their screens. It'll be a slow decline and collapse of the USA. American culture has become so toxic to the world that the USA needs to be permanently dismantled. It will take decades, but it needs to be done.