• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Dumbest war in history for far and away the dumbest U.S. president in history?

    Sounds about right.

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    Well, this is the dumbest head of state in history. The only other one I can think of that comes close is Berlusconi, but at least he didn’t have the world’s largest military.

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      They want to kill nato but do not have the juice on their own. So taking greenland in adventurism they figure could overcome that, I suspect.

      The president and many of his people are compromised by russia, and in league with them, (israel moreso but that is neither here nor there,) and this is what they want, to set nato against each other while he and the us secretly help far right client parties in those states get elected then fix themselves in power.

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      There are several people who met trump personally saying he is the dumbest person they have ever met.

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    As a member of a country that was until rather recently at war with Denmark, if the Americans want to fight the Danes, they’ll have to fight us too.

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    I don’t think this dude realises that he is talking about the dumbest president in American history, but then again he did get into the White House TWICE, so i’m not really sure who’s stupider? him or those that put him there and are STILL rooting for him…

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      It shows you how rigged the voting system is in favor of the Republicans for the presidential election. They have rejected the illusion of democracy at this point let alone the practice.

      They have gerrymandered, used religion, the courts, infiltrated voting systems, and not mention constant propaganda with a heavy reliance on othering people to ensure they win even when their numbers are less.

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      I think he might be the dumbest world leader in history, honestly.

      Like, there have been some real morons throughout the world, but this guy really takes the idiot cake.

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      Republicans and the voters that voted Trump are definitely the stupider part of that situation. Being fooled by a fool makes you pretty stupid. Failing to detect the blatant lies of a pathological liar makes you stupid. Thinking the obvious flaming sociopathic narcissist is on your side makes you stupid.
      The only way to be that stupid is by a lifetime of indoctrination that up is down. Americans have been indoctrinated for a century that freedom is the ultimate highest value, higher than life itself, without ever actually making a good definition of what freedom is! And Trump is a sociopathic narcissist, with no conscience no respect for anything or regard for other people and little self control, and that is seen by most of the American population as the ultimate expression of the freedom they idolize.
      Americans are also indoctrinated to admire being rich, as a sign of skill and intelligence. And since Trump is rich and famous, Americans think he is intelligent, despite his fortune is based on his inheritance.

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    The Dumbest <thing> In History is Trump’s bag, baby. It’s his home territory. An enduring legacy he has painstakingly built over decades. It’s a tall bar to clear, but I think Trump can top the Emu War.

    I can’t predict anything this administration does, but it seems very possible we attack on MLK day.

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        I think he’d love to rename it after himself somehow. And if they did an instant takeover, that would be Trump’s “V-Day.”

        I wouldn’t bet money on it, but if I had to, that’s the day I’d pick. They are ramping up the rhetoric more than they ever did for Venezuela.

        I think his birthday is coming up. That is a strong contender as well. “Happy Birthday, Mr. President. We got you Greenland.”

        “Wow, no one has ever gotten me one of those before. Can I do the whole Prime Nocturn thing with the Danish gals?”

        That might be a better bet, even.

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          They are ramping up the rhetoric more than they ever did for Venezuela.

          I mean I wouldn’t say that. They quite literally murdered people regularly in the lead up to that with the boat thing.

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            Yes, the action was more severe, but generally downplayed as “just law enforcement stuff”, not every day musing how they should just take Venezuela over.

            Waltzing into Venezuela seems to be like blood in the water. They have a taste for it and are ready to roll over another “easy” target (why would NATO raise a fuss over less than 70K people, I am sure they are thinking)

            They don’t see Venezuela as a one off, they see it as momentum…

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        If I’m thinking like an idiot a la trump I’d think then when we celebrate mlk we’re actually celebrating takeover of Greenland day. In his mind maybe replacing a holiday he dislikes. Maybe another purity test for his idiot followers

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    An attack on Greenland would trigger Article 5. An attack on one is an attack on all. It would start a world war.

    Trump said that electing Kamala would lead to world war 3. Every accusation is an admission.

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        There are options. Dumping US bonds would collapse the US, and the only thing that makes it hard is the US economy collapsing would be a bad thing for the EU right now.

        Also, protracted resistance. Greenland is harsh territory, and Nordic weekend soldiers regularly beat US marines in exercises in cold weather warfare.

        The USSR lost half a million in Afghanistan, 50k to fighting, 450k to the environment. And they didn’t need to resupply via the Atlantic.

        Also, the Nordics probs have the world’s best submarine interdiction fleet, and most of the Cold War era US anti-sub stuff is actually reliant on Greenland, Iceland and the UK cooperating.

        Nordic subs regularly score hits on US carriers in exercises.

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        It would be the end of NATO as it stands, there’s no reason the remaining countries couldn’t continue the alliance or start a new one.

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          NATO already is mostly EU + US and then only Canada, UK, Turkey and some smaller ones which all are (politically) very close to the EU (much closer than to the US at least).

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          Would technically have to be a new one, NATO wasn’t designed to handle this sort of scenario. Of course New NATO would be an America-free roughly equivalent, with some different governance to prevent things like a single county impeding something everyone else wants.