France, UK and most of Europe are part of NATO and in recent days have sent small military forces to Greenland to show that, unlike the US, they will honour their alliances.

Trump is trying to break NATO because it’s what daddy Putin wants him to do.

It doesn’t really make sense to. The idea of a sending a token force is to act as trip-wire. A trip-wire force is there so if they’re attacked, it means war. In that case, those soldiers would be reinforced. They’re the tip of the spear.

If Canada sent a trip-wire force in Greenland, those soldiers would not be be expecting reinforcements if attacked by the US. Because Canada is on the border with the US there would be fighting much closer to the aggressor than where the trip-wire forces are. So it would be sending soldiers to Greenland and telling them if attacked by the US they will die with no hope of reinforcement.

You put trip-wires on your outer defenses between you and your enemy. You don’t put them far away from the front-lines of a potential conflict. Doing that is just telling soldiers to either die or surrender if attacked.

Remember they’re soldiers not some pawns on a chessboard that you sacrifice for a phony political statement. Really what would be the plan to reinforce Canadian soldiers sent to Greenland if they were attacked by US forces?

Fighting ICE with ice.

It’s not even former allies. Denmark is a current ally according to treaties that are signed into US law. Sure the US is effectively no longer part of NATO but all of the official reasons for invading Greenland could be accomplished by Trump admitting some agreements made by past Presidents were actually good.

This is all because one deranged old child molester wants to put his name on the map and a whole bunch of people are too gutless to admit that’s what’s going on.

Stop trying to make BRICS happen it’s not going to happen.

Also it sounds like you want BRICS to be a group of country where they don’t have freedom of speech? Why would this be a good thing?

It’s just all emotion and no rational thought now. People just go into outrage mode when certain topics are mentioned.

Really it opens a channel to criticize ICE without needing to logon to X to do so. But that’s bad because preventing communication is good?

Of course I doubt ICE will care about criticism directed towards their account on bluesky. But that means things said on the internet don’t have much of an effect on things, which means it doesn’t matter whether they’re on bluesky (or any other forum).

Mostly it’s about some weird belief by some about controlling what is being said on the internet gains power. You’d think the events that have happened would have proven this wrong, but still people continue to be upset about things being said on the internet and want some power over those things.

Really words on the internet don’t matter as much as people think, and the idea of blocking unwanted information is annoying at best and can lead to ignorance. What matters is the horrible acts ICE is doing. We should want more light being shown on them, and welcome any potential channel of discussion.

Wanting to prevent discussion indicates you feel you’re in the wrong. ICE is indicating they want discussion, while those that are outraged by ICE being on bluesky are indicating they don’t want discussion on ICE. Why would anyone want to make is seem ICE is in the right while they’re in the wrong? It’s people not thinking and only reacting emotionally and handing ICE a W because they are raging instead of thinking.

Gotta follow Price is Right rules. Closest without going over.

Pressure politics is part of diplomacy.

That being said, the US effectively doesn’t have any allies any more. Sure there’s still alliances on paper, but Trump doesn’t care about agreements and everyone knows it. But we’re in a bit of an awkward dance where countries don’t want Trump to know that they know the US no longer considers any country an ally. Just buying time to shift everything away from the US.

You might even say that she’s somewhat cruel.

Nah you gotta have one Damar on the cabinet with the rest being Weyouns.

Americans will whine “but what about the democrats?!?” all the way down the road to fascism.

Y’all didn’t vote for them, there’s nothing they can do. How about blame the fascism on on the fascists doing it?

Countries aren’t sports teams, it’s stupid to “support” any country. Maybe that’s why you aren’t capable of understanding any nuance in geopolitics.

I don’t give the time of day to a holocaust denier. And you haven’t yet confirmed whether or not you are one.

When the dot com bubble popped it’s not like the internet went away. Everything you’re saying also applies to the internet, we didn’t go back to the way the world was before the internet.

Yet the bot com bubble popped.

The long term viability of a technology does not indicate whether there’s “irrational exuberance” in the short term. Buying up GPUs that’ll depreciate in a few years when there won’t be power to run them in that time frame? Yup it’s a bubble, and it will pop. That doesn’t mean the tech will go away. Just it will be used in more reasonable ways and developed over the next decade instead of it being “it will replace all jobs in field X within six months” while wasting cycles jamming it into everything to create numbers about it’s usage constantly rising by huge amounts.

Yeah handing over all media institutions over to government control worked well for Russia, didn’t it?

You know the internet isn’t all that difficult to control. How many tech CEOs are licking Trump’s boot right now? Jeff Bezos being among them should indicate the problems with tech, not the problems with media institutions.

And you think your shitty alt media sites couldn’t be made irrelevant by tech CEOs with just a few tweaks of the algorithms? Do you think they can’t send their government agents to wreck a small time journalist?

In the past the owner of a newspaper would stand up for journalistic freedom. This particular newspaper is owned by a big tech guy, so that isn’t happening. So your solution is to get rid of newspapers and trust in big tech more? I think the influence of big tech has you reading the situation all wrong.

Trump is threatening tarrifs. Must be a day that ends with a Y.

You believe Russian asset Tusli Gabbard over the IAEA, the UN nuclear watchdog?

It’s difficult for people that have just learned to hate to come to terms with the fact that their allies are complete monsters.

Yeah, the guys that chant “death to Israel” might not be good people. Go figure. They might actually be oppressive assholes using hatred to control people. What’s the term for an authoritarian regime that uses hatred and fear to control people? Damn, right on the tip of my tongue…

But don’t think too much about what it means to be in a group that hates a certain group of people (but it’s a country of people, and also the people that think that country should exist you hate, so it’s cool to hate!) and then your allies have just killed 12,000 protesters in a week. Just keep on hating the people you’re supposed to hate and don’t ever think about things!

Gotta have a layer of blubber to keep warm.

Also it seems to me there’s more obesity in rural areas. People taking transit walk a bit more than people that drive a car everywhere I guess.

And Iran isn’t a colonizer with Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and various other groups operating around the Middle East just fucking things up for everyone else?

Or do you just use the word “colonizer” to dehumanize people of ethnicities that you hate?