Slop.

It's the defining feature of liberalism. There's never any talk about if it's morally right or wrong, or if it's a net positive or net negative for the world or society or community. Just "can we legally do this? " And that's all that matters

This, this exactly

I fucking hate it when libs talk about "Erm, that's ackshually illegal" when the right DOES NOT GIVE A FLYING SWIMMING WALKING OR SHITTING FUCK ABOUT LEGALITY

We had someone get MURDERED not too long ago, are they gonna actually punish that removed? NO. They HATE law and order, they HATE principle, they HATE legal precedent. All the right wants to ever do is murder andremoved like the removed scum they are, so RECOGNIZE THAT and ACT ACCORDINGLY for fucks sake, I'm so mad

Same way they frame Crimea as an invasion

I'm operating under the assumption that the Yankee military brass doesn't care one iota about who actually lives there, but rather who "owns" it

The thawing arctic is going to disrupt the entire world order by creating all new shipping routes and zones of conflict. There is also the rich irony of an administration that denies climate change trying to strategize around its direct consequence.

1930s shenanigans. Everyone jumps to the Nazis but we must not forget the Technocrats, especially since Elon's grandparents were silvershirts. I'm sure Thiel and the others are on board with technocracy.

The Technocracy movement had its brief heyday in the 1930s, its leading proponent engineer Howard Scott (1890-1970) and his Technocracy Incorporated, founded in 1933. The movement was ideologically somewhat diverse and fractious, but Scott’s version was fueled by the Great Depression and the crisis of capitalism, quack economics, post-First-World-War isolationism, and an infatuation with Fascist form and ritual. At the core of its ideology was a rejection of the “price system” underlying the global economy, in which money as a medium of exchange determines the value of goods and services and financial considerations are fundamental to all economic decision making. Citing the Depression as Exhibit A, movement adherents viewed this system as inherently unsustainable and predicted a total system collapse no later than 1940.

Technocracy Inc.’s prescriptive program had economic, political and geopolitical elements. At the core was a shift from the price system to what Scott called “an energy theory of value”, in which goods and services were to be valued based not on money but in terms of the energy inputs required to produce them. This in turn would necessitate the abandonment of democracy and the embrace of a technocracy—government by an unelected, technically skilled, empirically-driven elite with the expertise necessary to determine values and make rational resource-allocation decisions. The outward manifestations of this authoritarian outlook had a distinctly Fascist flavor: Technocracy Inc. members wore a uniform of double-breasted suit, gray shirt, and blue tie, with the red Technocracy logo worn on the lapel; drove gray-painted cars; and saluted one another in public.

Think about using energy input as a pricing mechanism. Then think about cryptocurrency.

Trump's rationale is if we don't invade then Russia or China will take it.

It is rich in oil. And it also has a lot of rare earth elements. The US probably recognises that they need to scramble for as much of the world's resources while they still have the power to do so.

what ive seen that's most convincing is trump feels he is owed it; for all his perceived favors to europe they need to give him something back and it's making him very angry they don't give it on their own initiative.

exact same thing is going on with the nobel prize, he's cut out the venezuelan emigré opposition entirely because a woman didn't facilitate his getting a shiny trophy.

every strategic/economic target of the occupation would be rammed through under danish administration (even an independent greenland wouldnt have much hope opposing it), it's genuinely just the mad impulse of the emperor guiding the ship

The motivation for posting this is the complete lack of pushback to Venezuela

For me the funny thing is how lib media venerates American law and the constitution. Oh, my goodness! Doing X is against the law and unconstitional!

#notall-libs

The lib I used to work with once actually asked me why Greenland SHOULDN'T belong to America; he said it's closer to America than Denmark (yes, this guy despise Trump, AND YET)

I am going to guess that it was just simply inconceivable. They assumed that NATO members would resolve their disputes through other institutions (UN, EU parliament, WTO, etc). That was the whole point of these institutions, to make resolving disputes able to be done without war.

We obviously all know it was a sham but it's quite funny to have the sham ripped apart to reveal the true power dynamics underneath

i mean is iceland filled with inuits? no, so why would GREENland be? checkmate

I think it is just a "Greenland is in Europe" and "Indigenous people live in the Americas." mix of two kinds of American ignorance.

"Mr. President, attacking Greenland would be illegal! You should bomb Iran instead."

Sites that do this are so annoying. I assume it's done as the simplest way possible for them to get metrics "Did the visitor click the button?" But the data is flawed. I bet a lot of people did what I just did. I pushed the fucking button but then I decided I was annoyed enough it was better to close the tab than try to read in annoyance.