I mean, if you are going to post a nice bullet point rundown (like this), that might be good enough for a new topic, so it shows up on peoples "new" feed.
As for the content itself:
NATO countries are preparing for possible military conflict with the US due to Trump's ambitions for Greenland. -- There is no preparation, above and beyond the obvious. Let's keep things in perspective. Other country's military will always train on scenarios that involve international military conflict. Right now, EU nations are planning for conflict with the US and some of them are holding air and military drills.
On the other hand, there's no training scenario that will prepare any UN nation or several working together to withstand the US parking an aircraft carrier offshore of any nation in the world and arranging a country-wide appointment with the ancestors courtesy of 12 hours of airstrikes. Other countries have tanks, soldiers, air defense, navies, but they've got nothing that's going to stop the US in a total war.
Luckily, it takes a 2/3 majority to withdraw from NATO and even Trump is not likely to pull out of the UN, which is great because it means that a lot of the world is still technically our allies. If Trump wants Greenland, he'll take it, and it will probably be bloodless. There will be sanctions, international whining, maybe some stochastic terror and a bit of guerilla warfare (probably not), but no one is looking to get carpet bombed by a reality TV star over Greenland.
While we're on the topic, I'd also wager that US will take the Panama Canal, same deal. Will we bother taking Mexico? Depends on how hard the fight taking planeloads of refugees / deportees. They can either capitulate, which is shitty, or they can give a psychotic 78 year old his best excuse yet for "deploying US troops to Mexico to secure an airstrip for humanitarian purposes" and you know he'll use some of that phrasing.
Feel free to respond to this. I will probably come back and respond to some of these other points later too.
As for the content itself:
NATO countries are preparing for possible military conflict with the US due to Trump's ambitions for Greenland. -- There is no preparation, above and beyond the obvious. Let's keep things in perspective. Other country's military will always train on scenarios that involve international military conflict. Right now, EU nations are planning for conflict with the US and some of them are holding air and military drills.
On the other hand, there's no training scenario that will prepare any UN nation or several working together to withstand the US parking an aircraft carrier offshore of any nation in the world and arranging a country-wide appointment with the ancestors courtesy of 12 hours of airstrikes. Other countries have tanks, soldiers, air defense, navies, but they've got nothing that's going to stop the US in a total war.
Luckily, it takes a 2/3 majority to withdraw from NATO and even Trump is not likely to pull out of the UN, which is great because it means that a lot of the world is still technically our allies. If Trump wants Greenland, he'll take it, and it will probably be bloodless. There will be sanctions, international whining, maybe some stochastic terror and a bit of guerilla warfare (probably not), but no one is looking to get carpet bombed by a reality TV star over Greenland.
While we're on the topic, I'd also wager that US will take the Panama Canal, same deal. Will we bother taking Mexico? Depends on how hard the fight taking planeloads of refugees / deportees. They can either capitulate, which is shitty, or they can give a psychotic 78 year old his best excuse yet for "deploying US troops to Mexico to secure an airstrip for humanitarian purposes" and you know he'll use some of that phrasing.
Feel free to respond to this. I will probably come back and respond to some of these other points later too.