• NoiseColor @lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    In don’t think any political analyst ever thought Greenland would be in question.

    These are truly shocking times no matter how anyone saw it coming.

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      19 days ago

      Venezuela is Sudetenland. Greenland is Danzig and the Polish corridor. Canada is the Elzas and France.

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        18 days ago

        In the context of Arctic defense, the GIUK gap and Thule airbase, sure. Those were considered strategically important things during the Cold War, and rightly so.

        But “it looks big on the map and it’s closer to me than to you and I want it and I have more guns so give it to me now” is just Trump.

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        18 days ago

        Not really a fixation that’s too strong of a word.

        Besides Denmark let’s US do whatever they want there , always have.