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The only way Trump will relinquish power is when he dies either of natural causes or otherwise. He's trying to manufacture a conflict now so that he can use it as justification for suspending elections. It's exactly how Putin got into power. He was elected, probably legally, and then just refused to leave when his term was up.

The only difference between Trump and Putin is that Trump hasn't gotten to the end of his term yet, so still has a vague wiff of legitimacy.

Why can't people just tell Trump that they've done these things, and then just have like a shadow government that actually works. Why are people actually taking orders from this psychopath?

He's actually starting to threaten World War 3 again, and quite a lot of Americans seem to be going "oh well obviously I don't agree with it but what can we do". Nothing, that's what you do, you simply do not do what he tells you to do. Ignore him.

What's with this sudden tendency to pad screenshots of tweets out for about 400 miles of unnecessary white space.

A lot of Europe is actually further north than Toronto. I don't think a lot of Americans realise that because they're used to looking at the traditional world map which is quite distorted.

Give it is pitch black outside, extremely cold, and there nothing to do I think I'd prefer to stay inside where it's warm, and I have cats.

I also don't have to stay in a 6 ft square concrete room with the constantly humming fluorescent light. I think that's what makes the difference.

Are the desks bulletproof?

I think you've just got to run faster than the slowest kid. Or maybe that's bears.

You know those millions of documents that haven't been released yet. They all just repeatedly say "Trump did all of it" over and over again. The blackout markers keep running out of ink, they bought all of Costco's supply and now they have to do delay for more to be in stock. Unfortunately they are made in China and are therefore subject to tariffs.

That would be an extremely bad idea considering that the UK's nuclear weapons arsenal is not land-based. The US actually ordered those troops to do anything within 15 minutes missiles could be headed to the US. Although the smarter option would be to have the subs manoeuvre to just off the US coast and then launch. Very little time to respond then.

I'm not saying that would definitely be the response but it's a hell of a risk for the US to take. I would hope that someone in the US military has enough brains to countermand that order.

It's interesting that the US now probably has more enemies than it has had any other point in its entire history. It's almost like somebody changed something.

I'm not sure how much military AI figures into this. Arctic conditions are famously unforgiving of electronics.

Batteries tend to die, and components tend to freeze. The US military hasn't really built their infrastructure to deal with extremely cold weather, they were confident that the next major conflict would occur in a nice warm desert in the middle East or maybe China at a stretch.

This is the thing though. They have a military base in Iceland and Denmark pretty much gives them free reign to do whatever they want in the country so they don't need to launch an actual invasion.

But of course Trump is an idiot so he's threatening this anyway even though it'll result in zero benefits for the United States.

The thing is though if they try and take Greenland by force it's going to involve them occasionally leaving the heated interior of the US military compound. I'm sure that's going to be a fun exercise for the troops.