Donald Trump and US expansionism in North America
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I have to say, Rubio beats the expectations. It's not just the way he handles himself, but he delivers results.
After his visit Panama will:
- leave the belt and road initiative
- grant free passage to US Navy
- look into Hutchison Port Holdings operations
Panama gives in as US pressure on Panama Canal intensifies - The Loadstar
Continuing US pressure over the operation of the Panama Canal has led Panama to end its participation in China's Belt & Road project
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I have to say, Rubio beats the expectations. It's not just the way he handles himself, but he delivers results.
After his visit Panama will:
- leave the belt and road initiative
- grant free passage to US Navy
- look into Hutchison Port Holdings operations
Panama gives in as US pressure on Panama Canal intensifies - The Loadstar
Continuing US pressure over the operation of the Panama Canal has led Panama to end its participation in China's Belt & Road project
- Cutting off USAID
- Recognizing the Sanctions Overreach that Biden/Obama abused
- Playing good cop in International Relations and above all being transactional to other nation states
According to the Telegraph several European countries and NATO members (France, Germany, Denmark and potentially others) are mulling the deployments of troops in Greenland as a deterrent against a US takeover
I like how they are more afraid of Trump than Putin
I like how they forgot about the piss-poor performance of their navies in the Red Sea.
Like how the French went it alone and their frigate ran out of ammunition in three days? Sacre Bleu!
Let's see how all that not-funding defense programs works out when you don't have the crutch of superior US C3, overwatch, and logistics bolstering your flaccid, tepid, foundering navies...
This won't matter at all if we decide we want it.
They can discuss whatever they want.. while they are at it.... They should discuss how to get off the Petro Dollar and US funding of NATO all together.
It isn't a deterrent at all. It's like a 15 year old trying to claim the bench is his because he threw 45 lbs on the bar and his sweatshirt down...meanwhile a guy who can curl his max only needs to tell him to move and he's gone.
How will the US see all the white French flags, against the backdrop of all that snow in Greenland?
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My friends why greenland must be us?
Greenland never us, but alaska part of Russia for many years can we now say Alaska must come to Russia again?
But we do not want Alaska but maybe Russia get Greenland.
My friends people in Duma greenland can be part of Russia new oblast. Because russia is only country with stable society stable economy
Haha maybe little green men soon come to Greenland also
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Greenland never us, but alaska part of Russia for many years can we now say Alaska must come to Russia again?
But we do not want Alaska but maybe Russia get Greenland.
My friends people in Duma greenland can be part of Russia new oblast. Because russia is only country with stable society stable economy
Haha maybe little green men soon come to Greenland also
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Депутат Милонов: Гренландия могла бы войти в состав России как новая республика
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Comrade, I thought you were expert in Russian History. Alaska is ours. You sold it to us. Your mistake. Thank Edouard de Stoeckl in 1867.My friends why greenland must be us?
Greenland never us, but alaska part of Russia for many years can we now say Alaska must come to Russia again?
But we do not want Alaska but maybe Russia get Greenland.
My friends people in Duma greenland can be part of Russia new oblast. Because russia is only country with stable society stable economy
Haha maybe little green men soon come to Greenland also
Милонов предложил «Гренландской народной республике» войти в состав России - Газета.Ru | Новости
Депутат Милонов: Гренландия могла бы войти в состав России как новая республика
You can certainly try.
Question for the Canadians on the forum.
I frequent a few left-leaning forums. I've noticed a massive uptick in Canadians on them who seem unironically worried that our president is going to launch an invasion, and in such Canadians attempting to scare Americans about the consequences of doing so. These include allusions to a Canadian sleeper terrorist network that's already in place in the USA and a secret Canadian biological weapons program (I admire the Machiavellian nature of these claims). I see many increasingly lurid fantasies about murdering Americans in the nastiest ways possible. Canada can, apparently, through these and economic means, totally destroy America at will and if Donald Trump doesn't knock it off soon, Canada just might do so. A lot of this is aggravated TDS, but at least some seems to be sincere fear that war is imminent between our countries.
A little less hysterically, I see claims that there is a mass spontaneous boycott of American goods in Canada right now, which I imagine could be true.
How would you describe the situation on the ground in Canada right now? How worried are everyday normie Canadians about the current situation?
I don't think an invasion is possible, but if it happened I do think it would be a resounding victory for Canada. I don't have a good feel for how willing Canadians would be to fight under their government, but they must be more willing than the Black people, Puerto Ricans, and single mothers who largely make up our military would be to fight and die for the US government anywhere, especially Canada. In the War of 1812, many American units just flatly refused to fight on Canadian territory because of the absurdity of the idea and I could see that happening again. I myself am a heritage American and I can't imagine a circumstance under which I'd be willing to fight for the government in Washington at this point, but I would be especially unlikely to want to fight Canada.
Tangentially related, is there any truth in this video someone posted a while back claiming that your country is on the verge of collapse? That's the only circumstance in which I could see the USA realistically taking control of any part of Canada. That is, if Ottawa no longer exercises control over the provinces, I could see a province like Alberta or Manitoba maybe voluntarily choosing US statehood.
I frequent a few left-leaning forums. I've noticed a massive uptick in Canadians on them who seem unironically worried that our president is going to launch an invasion, and in such Canadians attempting to scare Americans about the consequences of doing so. These include allusions to a Canadian sleeper terrorist network that's already in place in the USA and a secret Canadian biological weapons program (I admire the Machiavellian nature of these claims). I see many increasingly lurid fantasies about murdering Americans in the nastiest ways possible. Canada can, apparently, through these and economic means, totally destroy America at will and if Donald Trump doesn't knock it off soon, Canada just might do so. A lot of this is aggravated TDS, but at least some seems to be sincere fear that war is imminent between our countries.
A little less hysterically, I see claims that there is a mass spontaneous boycott of American goods in Canada right now, which I imagine could be true.
How would you describe the situation on the ground in Canada right now? How worried are everyday normie Canadians about the current situation?
I don't think an invasion is possible, but if it happened I do think it would be a resounding victory for Canada. I don't have a good feel for how willing Canadians would be to fight under their government, but they must be more willing than the Black people, Puerto Ricans, and single mothers who largely make up our military would be to fight and die for the US government anywhere, especially Canada. In the War of 1812, many American units just flatly refused to fight on Canadian territory because of the absurdity of the idea and I could see that happening again. I myself am a heritage American and I can't imagine a circumstance under which I'd be willing to fight for the government in Washington at this point, but I would be especially unlikely to want to fight Canada.
Tangentially related, is there any truth in this video someone posted a while back claiming that your country is on the verge of collapse? That's the only circumstance in which I could see the USA realistically taking control of any part of Canada. That is, if Ottawa no longer exercises control over the provinces, I could see a province like Alberta or Manitoba maybe voluntarily choosing US statehood.
Doubtful Canada will collapse in 10, but it is dying and will collapse in the next 50 for sure. Most predictions of collapse are way too fast. People do not understand the collapses take place over generations, not economic cycles.
"There is much ruin in a nation."
"There is much ruin in a nation."
This is where I've come to understand what the final curation is, for those of us who can see things happening in the future. It's not that we know anything exactly or precisely, but that things are going in a direction - but we can see particular things happening, which is the important point (and useful). The last part of that is understanding that things never happen as fast as any given human thinks, and mostly that is due to our own ego or general predisposition to believe that our lifetime is somehow different or even more important than others'. While this can be true to an extent (if you need to fight in a different way, or the consequences are currently greater/more is at stake), the generational aspect of things trumps any given fact or factoid about life that we find personally important.
As I've told others, another way you can look at this is that the collapse is already here. And in many ways, it is.
There is good news in all of this, by the way: if you have planned well or have skills, you'll be very much protected from the increasing degradation that will not spare very many, as population boom and reliance on "systems" are normie traits. It may not be fair, or seem godly, but the indifference of history on particular people, groups, or populations is quite clear. Over time, people also ignore relatively how good they had it, even for a time, when bad times beckon. In that sense, it does weirdly balance out.
Moving ahead, the key will be far more related to not getting drowned out by the swaths of average, fearful and dependent people. Notice how that is exactly what has happened already to make life increasingly sterile - or seemingly, without a promising future.
I hope you guys don't actually believe he'll be doing any military action in this hemisphere.
Panama Canal - Current Pres. of Panama is openly disrespecting Trump/Rubio, using aggressive language & says US can't pass for free & our Chinese friends continue to man the entrance/exits. Meanwhile in Catatumbo, Colombia, the largest battles since the 80's are taking place, 10's-100's of daily casualties. Whoever controls Catatumbi is within Shaheed range (in a mountainous jungle nearly impossible to conduct airstrikes) & can easily shut down the Panama Canal, similar to the Houthis in the Red Sea. Iran has a technical facility capable of large scale Shaheed production (as per Erik Prince) a short drive from Catatumbo. If the US started anything, the canal could easily be shut down on the Carribean side since the US nor Colombia gov. no longer control Venezuelan border region. US cannot control Catatumbo despite decades of trying via Plan Colombia & is finally withdrawing completely from Colombia, letting fleets of blackhawks sit idle, indicating no further military action in the area.
Mexico - As much as I'd support military action there & hate their current president, I'd recommend you watch her latest speeches. She saying some very problematic things. The problem with what she's saying, is that it's true. Short version "yes, we bring fentanyl to the border but what happens to it after that? US gov profits from it's distribution & is just as crooked as we are". Those "sigint" flights in the Big Bend, TX area being publisized happen all the time for decades now, it's routine. Unfortunately, there will be no real drug war, for the same reason Miami is a drug addict society & Havana, Cuba you won't find a single illicit drug.
Canada - Lol...
Panama Canal - Current Pres. of Panama is openly disrespecting Trump/Rubio, using aggressive language & says US can't pass for free & our Chinese friends continue to man the entrance/exits. Meanwhile in Catatumbo, Colombia, the largest battles since the 80's are taking place, 10's-100's of daily casualties. Whoever controls Catatumbi is within Shaheed range (in a mountainous jungle nearly impossible to conduct airstrikes) & can easily shut down the Panama Canal, similar to the Houthis in the Red Sea. Iran has a technical facility capable of large scale Shaheed production (as per Erik Prince) a short drive from Catatumbo. If the US started anything, the canal could easily be shut down on the Carribean side since the US nor Colombia gov. no longer control Venezuelan border region. US cannot control Catatumbo despite decades of trying via Plan Colombia & is finally withdrawing completely from Colombia, letting fleets of blackhawks sit idle, indicating no further military action in the area.
Mexico - As much as I'd support military action there & hate their current president, I'd recommend you watch her latest speeches. She saying some very problematic things. The problem with what she's saying, is that it's true. Short version "yes, we bring fentanyl to the border but what happens to it after that? US gov profits from it's distribution & is just as crooked as we are". Those "sigint" flights in the Big Bend, TX area being publisized happen all the time for decades now, it's routine. Unfortunately, there will be no real drug war, for the same reason Miami is a drug addict society & Havana, Cuba you won't find a single illicit drug.
Canada - Lol...