It's too crazy. "I want Greenland because I didn't get a Nobel Prize," is the upshot of the letter Present Trump sent to Norway's Prime Minister and shared with the international diplomatic corps in Washington, DC.
Arctic-trained troops stationed in Alaska are on standby, ostensibly to possibly be deployed to Minneapolis-St. Paul in Minnesota in support of the heavy-handed federal round-up, supposedly directed at illegal immigrants but sweeping up native-born and naturalized citizens, protestors and anyone else unlucky enough to be in the wrong place or the wrong color. Of course, they'd be handy for a quick raid on Greenland, too, so...?
It's all too crazy. I'm watching it, but it's unfixable in the short term and a nightmare on any scale.
The thought that the man in charge of the world's biggest nuclear arsenal thinks like a petulant child should send shivers down the spine of any reasonable human being. And yet, his craziness is sanewashed by his loyal supporters.
ReplyDeleteDoubleThink- it's not just for Dirty Commies anymore!
DeleteThey told me that we'd get Imperialistic NeoCon Forever Wars if I didn't vote for
ReplyDeleteTrump in the Primary, and they were right (to steal an old joke from Insty).
Remember when Trump said those were bad? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Also- does he know that Norway and Denmark are not the same country?
DeleteI can conceive of a fair number of people deciding that if we're going to have a war, that they want to (a) be on the side of the good guys, (b) that we are the bad guys, and (c) acting accordingly. They may do a bit more than the White Rose Society did.
ReplyDeleteThey'll probably mostly get killed, but they'll be honored by history. Not so much those who follow Generalissimo Orange's orders.