Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

Considering Hegseth is apparently an heroic alcoholic does that qualify him as a DEI hire?

God dam that’s a good one!

I think you just nailed it for post of the day with that zinger. Outstanding.

If Biden said he didn't know about a particular social media, it at least would be plausible.

or he could just text it to them:)

They just have to tell Greenland officials that they aren’t serious and only joking, that’s according to a few posters here anyway

Agreed.

Western Europe, as a whole, needs to be extremely careful about what they share with America now. A nation that is now on the side of another nation, Russia, who actively wants to see harm come to western part of the continent. There can be no wavering on this matter. The US has been turned into an absolute shitshow under Trump and his billionaire coup, who'll not balk on destroying anything they deem to be a threat to themselves, even if they're a national ally.

These people and the useful idiots that support them are extremely dangerous to the stability of the world…and this is only the beginning.

Pete telling it like it is ...

RE that security breach - the Trumpers here should really just sit down and have a little think to themselves (I'm sure it's possible, or at least I hope they can think) of what would've happened to Biden or Harris if this had happened on their watch. Trump basically made his political career on the "lock her up" thing and now his own administration is making war plans on Signal with a journalist in the group. I know it won't make a blind bit of difference because in a week, something else just as dumb will have replaced this in the news cycle, but people really need to start waking up to the sh*t these people are shovelling.

It would be the end of the Western world and the Western civilization if a Trump lead US would invade Greenland by military force.

If Greenland should ever join the US, it would have to be a referendum, - one which isn't influenced by social media or tools like this. It would be only the choice of Greenlanders to chose their future, and the US to accpect if they did so, as a 2nd step.

But a military invasion or other kind of threats of tariffs would be unacceptable.

The thing is, under Trump 2.0 the damage will be permanent. Also the issue is, how do you trust somebody, sign a treaty, with somebody who isn't to be trusted at any stage. It wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on.

Denmark is in NATO, so NATO would have to mobilize under the unlikely event of an invasion. I don't see it happening to be honest. I think this talk is Trump trying misdirection.

Article 5 of NATO says that in the event of an attack on a member country, other NATO countries should take measures they deem necessary to provide aid. It doesn't mandate military action, per se. That's just one option.

What’s interesting about this, Venezuela produces the type of oil that refineries in the states use, the other major supplier being Canada, who they have a trade war with.

Where exactly do they think they can get the raw materials to survive this?