No idea. Maybe they just keep turning politics more right leaning. Pro US in Germany, pro Rusdia in Poland for example.How would it be divided as you describe? What would the mechanism be?
I think it's time to get some troops into Greenland rather than wait like we did with the Falklands.Cuba will be next as it's an easier target than Columbia. That Cartels won't make it easy for him.
The ultimate goal though is Greenland. If it gets to Greenland I'd be very worried about the fate of the world
I think it's time to get some troops into Greenland rather than wait like we did with the Falklands.
He can't do it If he has to kill Danish soldiers to do it
Don't think Danish troops alone would deter the **** tbhEurope needs to stage some military exercises in Greenland, then leave their forces there for a few years
If he has to take it by force he will be attacking another nato member the rest have to provide protectionDon't think Danish troops alone would deter the **** tbh
But who would be in overall charge of the fightback, Denmark ?If he has to take it by force he will be attacking another nato member the rest have to provide protection
But who would be in overall charge of the fightback, Denmark ?
Who gets to decide military tactics, the ones who provide the most troops?
Nato sounds great but it hasn't been called upon since Kosovo which is a totally different scenario.
If he invaded Greenland, Europe will still be sending strongly worded letters 9 months after in the hope they, individually, didn't have to send their troops in, especially if an election is near.
Farage could be our next PM. Do you think he'd send the army, I don't.
Don't think Danish troops alone would deter the **** tbh
I think that it is a mistake to categorise Russia in the same grouping as the US and China, who are streets ahead in terms of economic and military power. They have the two largest economies and armies in the word, Russia’s economy is smaller than Italy. Russia has also been hugely depleted and exhausted by the Ukraine war. It also faces particular demographic challenges that the US doesn’t, although the birth rate in China is also a ticking time bomb, but I believe they have the wherewithal to substantively address that.No idea. Maybe they just keep turning politics more right leaning. Pro US in Germany, pro Rusdia in Poland for example.
I just can't imagine Russian troops in Cork or Manchester. I couldn't see the US even with Trump allowing Ireland to be taken over and I couldn't see the UK being taken over with a huge military conflict that would stretch Russia too far. But I'm no expert. I just would imagine that the political road is much easier all round.
I think you are right.I think that it is a mistake to categorise Russia in the same grouping as the US and China, who are streets ahead in terms of economic and military power. They have the two largest economies and armies in the word, Russia’s economy is smaller than Italy. Russia has also been hugely depleted and exhausted by the Ukraine war. It also faces particular demographic challenges that the US doesn’t, although the birth rate in China is also a ticking time bomb, but I believe they have the wherewithal to substantively address that.
So I simply doesn’t see how Russia has the capacity to impose itself on its sphere of influence to anything even resembling the same extent as US and China, especially as a united Europe has the conventional military capacity to repel, or at least absorb Russian aggression, even without the assistance of the US.
I can readily see a world dominated by two global superpowers, but to assume Russia will be a third simply doesn’t bear any objective scrutiny and is simply based on its sheer size rather than a host of other equally relevant factors.
I think it faces huge issues, which the other two don’t, notwithstanding the potential long term vulnerability of the dollar.
The world has been feeding his narcissism incessantly for 12 months now including gold carriage rides round Windsor Castle, a new aeroplane, red carpet treatment in multiple countries and culminating in a made up Peace Prize from the only international organisation that could rival Trump for corruption.He would probably see that as a challenge he needs to face into to maintain his strong man optics.
It's depressing to have to contemplate but the only tactic that might work with the feckless fat fucker is to big him up but then bore him to the point where he loses interest and moves on to somewhere/something else that gives him what he needs. Maybe if Europe welcomed his interest in Greenland and suggested the US led some kind of Arctic Security review and continued to flatter him about it whilst going at a snails pace he might expire before anything came to pass. Make him come to the conclusion it's a world of pain to actually do anything substantive but give him the off ramp of still being able to say he's secured the future of the Arctic etc. The problem with that is the greedy bastards backing him would want him to move at pace but they could possibly be tied up in legal risk/paperwork too (they can't ignore that stuff quite as easily as Trump) as long as Shit Gibbon's narcissism is fed and the optics meet his own goals.
UNSC Jeffry Sachs giving the Americans shit
About there behaviour since 1947.
70 attempted changes of government and not one of them have turned out happy for the countries involved.
So far in the past year they have threatened and bombed several countries.
They really are the cause of most the problems around the world since ww2
The world has been feeding his narcissism incessantly for 12 months now including gold carriage rides round Windsor Castle, a new aeroplane, red carpet treatment in multiple countries and culminating in a made up Peace Prize from the only international organisation that could rival Trump for corruption.
In return he’s supported Russia, treated Zelenskyy like shit, threatened allies and heaped praise on enemies.
It’s about time tactics changed and he starts to be treated with the contempt he deserves now it’s been established that cosying up to him gets you nothing.
I hope you're right but fear you're being naive. Land lease isn't as profitable as annexing.I actually think the threats to Greenland are just a tactic. Threaten to take over, then offer a land lease instead.
It would be more palatable, and safer than the alternative.
It makes Trump seem reasonable. Yet the US still gets what it wants.
The Canada 51st thing is just posturing.
Do you think the US military would engage and kill European military?But who could react to that ? His only threat is China. Europe could do nothing if he seized Greenland. No country or alliance could stop him or turf his military out.
Large doesn’t necessarily mean effective as Putin is finding outUSA, China and Russia have the biggest military in the world. They could sit down and divide the world up between them (and possibly are) and there is fuck all we could do about it. Western Europe has been incredidbly naive and has effectively neutered itself.