Venezuela is a trial balloon to see how the world responds. As expected, the response was timid and weak. This will only embolden this administration. If I had to hazard a guess, Trump's next military adventure will be an attack on "cartels" in Mexico.
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I disagree. Even if the leaders condemn the invasion of Venezuela all of them were against Maduro, specially since the 2018 "election", their response is mild because they are kinda happy someone did the dirty work. Also the country is not connected to the global economy. Greenland is part of Denmark (EU), Mexico has a lot of foreign investment and Canada is friends with everyone, the response won't be the same
Which is so frustrating because I think nobody actually wants to start ww3. Who really wants that? Obviously these fuckwits on top that it doesn't affect.
I don't say this to condone US actions in Venezuela in any way, but Maduro was internationally recognized as an illegitimate leader after their last election, with years of public dissent within Venezuela under his rule prior to that. Greenland has none of those things going on right now. So I would expect the international reaction to a similar action in Greenland to much more severe.
Edit: hm .. looks like OP edited their comment to change taking over Greenland with attacking Mexican cartels.
That’s great, but the way it was done was wholly unacceptable in more than a few ways. Doing it this way basically heralds the return of “might makes right” geopolitics and “sphere of influence” doctrine. Regardless of what you think of the now-concluded era of Pax Americana, this new era is absolutely going to be worse.
Fully agree. That's why I started my comment by saying I don't condone it.
this's not about maduro. who do you think will control this oil and how? it will go to israel to start wars all over the globe. Trump is a 80 yr old pos controlled by israel. they told him to do this to enable them to invade many more countries to come
Yes, I know. I know it's about the oil because Trump has been saying so, point blank, out loud, to the media, for weeks. I was just pointing out one key difference between Venezuela and Greenland (ie the legitimacy of their respective heads of state) that could reasonably explain why the international response to both could be different. I don't condone what the US just did in Venezuela.
.. the european zionist leaders and media are all in favor of this because venzuela's resources and new government will now work for israel and allow it to start new wars without fearing iran of closing up global oil trades.
the zionists don't give a damn about humanrights or dictatorships.. they love them and support every dictatorship and government that works for them.
OPs original comment (before the edit changing from Greenland to Mexico) was about the "world" response, not just foreign leaders' responses.
Not to mention Cuba, Columbia and Mexico...as he literally stated the same day he attacked Venezuela.
European countries would need to actually defend themselves, because for a lot of Americans the thought of actually going to war with other white people is much more upsetting than it is to go to war with brown people.
The EU is not capable of defending Greenland from an American invasion. They lack the kind of expeditionary military needed to do it. The best they could do is send large quantities of weapons that could be used by insurgents against the invaders.
But really, there's not much even that could do. Greenland has a population of 56,000, even if the EU was willing to arm an insurgency. The US has a population of 330,000,000. Insurgencies can pull off some real underdog miracles, but there's a limit. Ukraine, despite being outnumbered, can resist Russia through wits and bravery. But this would be like Vatican City trying to resist the Russian military.
Hell, we imagine Greenland as this vast territory, one that would be as difficult to subjugate as Afghanistan. But look at how Greenland is actually populated. Greenland isn't really a country in the traditional sense. It's basically five small towns.. Seriously, five towns, with populations of 24,000, 11,000, 9,000, 6,000, and 6,000. Occupy those five towns and you now control 99% of Greenland's population. The countryside is virtually empty except for some scattered mining camps. This isn't a territory that can support a large rural insurgency like Vietnam or Afghanistan.
I feel like the only deterrent the USA respects is a full global nuclear war. If the US doesn't respect sovereignty we might see a rise in nuclear armaments because it's the only thing that'll make them back down.
I'm afraid European countries would not defend themselves militarily because they simply would not stand a chance. US is capable of moving far greater army to Greenland than Europe is.
Europe would respond with economic sanctions and god knows how much of their economy they would be willing to sacrifice over Greenland. Maybe a lot, maybe they would tell Denmark to suck it up.
Just get some of Ukraine's sea drone's and wipe out the US fleet around Greenland.
Naval warfare is forever changed, but only Russia has felt it so far.
Keep all identifying flags off it so it could be any country sending them.
There's too much area to track where they all could be originating coming from.
edit: Also if I was Denmark/Greenland I 'd be getting some from Ukraine pronto so they could be deployed nearby to start with when a warship breaches their territorial waters or airspace.
Maduro should have hired you as his military advisor. US fleet would be at the bottom of the ocean now and he would still be in power.
seriously, US is a paper tiger with it's navy neutralized.
Greenland should kick out U.S. embassy officials. Those people aren’t real diplomats, and what they’re doing is not diplomacy. There’s a good chance some of them are CIA plotting a coup right now.
"We will just let him take Venezuela, then he will be appeased."
Venzuela's oil will also enable Israel to start many more wars uncontrolled now. They are the ones who told Trump to do this