My entire life I’ve been hearing that America is done, we’re finished like the end of the Roman Empire. This past year has been the first time since maybe 1953 that America reversed its decline and we are going to keep stacking wins at a faster and faster rate.
the year we chose to lose the Korean War. Truman fired/demoted Douglas MacArthur (in 1951) after he suggested dropping nukes to win the war.
would a declining power do THIS?!"
gets in a pointless disastrous war of choice due to ego of dying senile ruler
I unironically hope that Trump somehow starts a Greenland invasion because the United States breaking up NATO would be the funniest fucking thing in the last hundred years.
Me too. It would really suck for Greenlanders, but it would be a super pivotal point in cracking up the alliance power of the USA. Either outcome would be basically good: either a NATO breakup, or the Europeans rolling over like pathetic lapdogs (which would be so psychologically disruptive to Europe that it would de-facto accomplish the same thing).
which would be so psychologically disruptive to Europe
I hope you’re right lmao
Funny for us, heartwarming for its (and our) victims
Fuck me, they want to be the Roman Empire so bad.
Yeah bro go be an empire. Go spread yourself thin and die just like every other empire before you.
What a dead end ideology. 2000 years of this shit not working and people still think it’s a viable path for a society.
always have been since 1776See all the neoclassical architecture and Roman symbolism like the Phrygian cap and fasces in the seal of the United States Senate on Capitol Hill
Go spread yourself thin the way the more competent older generation of American imperialists did to the Soviet Union in order to destroy it.
“expansionist rising power” - you mean failed state.
“bring all our friends with us” - there’s Israel, the other fascist state. Other than them, there’s no one left.
I cannot wait until China starts colonizing and civilizing fascists.
We’re in our fading fast era
We’re gonna be so collapsed and paleopilled its gonna be insane.
Our own military is going to turn and cannibalize us into balkanized fascists mini-USes warring for the ruins.
Are you ready, comrades?
I honestly almost want it to happen sooner so I can be somewhat physically capable, instead of old and likely to get completely rolled over by the turmoil. It’s a stupid way to feel
Eh, i’m gonna be like The End from MGS3
chill, photosynthesizing, shooting dudes with a rifle when i’m 128
photosynthesizing
Can I do this if I consume enough chlorophyll?
Absolutely
I mean on a real note we should do what the German and Spanish anarchists/communists did in the beginning half of the 1900s but yeah
I think it will come sooner rather than later.
However, if you prepare now, by old age you could be proficient in guns and drones, and be adaptable enough to handle things better.
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It doesn’t seem like one going through the history. It seems like an exceptionally committed and highly active fascist to me that does absolutely nothing else in their life including lack of employment.
taking all our friends with us
explicitly telling Europe they’re on their own, threatening military aggression against the Danes
I wonder who this person thinks our friends are. Also people thought they had entered a renewed period of prosperity after the crisis of the third century had passed. The decline nonetheless came swiftly in a historical sense. Maybe California has a 1000 years of calling themselves the United States left before they fall to the Mesoamerican conquests though
This past year has been the first time since maybe 1953 that America reversed its decline
I’m sure it’s no coincidence that they picked the year before the Brown v Board of Education ruling
I live not far from a restaurant that serves vegan-ified classic 1950s diner food and it owns
I went to a cool place like that when I visited Chicago
Flying Saucer?
That’s the spot! Inexplicably cash only
Probably the aptly named Chicago Diner
I worked at a place that did that before covid
Paradox Interactive fans moment.
The map painting games and their consequences have been disastrous for the human race
I genuinely do not believe that we could take Greenland, even if the only thing Denmark has for us is strong words. Blowing things up overseas is an entirely different thing from establishing and maintaining a permanent imperial presence, which is itself entirely different to the status quo of letting dollar hegemony do that for us. The special forces of the US is a bunch of jackbooted thugs who are good at murder and kidnapping, which is why they were able to get Maduro, but that won’t help them take control of Greenland from a presumably overwhelmingly hostile population. It would be like the Winter War, only extremely dumb.
The population of Greenland is only about 50k. The US has murdered an order of magnitude more people in the Iraq war alone. I believe they could easily commit a genocide there to take it, if they are depraved enough.
if they are depraved enough.
They definitely are
Going the violent route would also allow them to remove potential indigenous opposition to large scale mining operations.
From what I read on Politico, this is largely a reason why the EU hasn’t invested more into mining Greenland’s rare earth minerals. I doubt the US would respect the local population in the same manner.
The local population should consider researching booby traps; make invader a climate
I don’t know that the population of Greenland is large or militant enough to be a significant factor. I reckon it’d be more of a Falkland Islands type extremely dumb exercise.
Greenland doesn’t have a big enough population to stop the USA from seizing it. They would no doubt inflict extremely disproportionate losses if they chose to fight back, but 50k people are not stopping the US military, more’s the pity.
Edit: also Finland lost the winter war.
There’s only 50k people living on Greenland, so there’s not enough to do some massive attrition-style thing. Or thats the popular notion here anyway, but I’ve never been a guerrilla and nothing is set in stone. Maybe there’s an inuit Ho Chi Minh out there who will revolutionize warfare for a modern age.
I do agree Greenland will be more cumbersome to take than most users here seem to think. It’s big and cold and logistics are a thing. In practicality I think that would result in some tier 1 operators freezing to death, some grunts murdering a polar bear in self defense and then freezing to death and us getting a few good memes out of it.
Wouldn’t heat detecting equipment be perfect for finding freedom fighters hidden in all that snow? There also isn’t the protective canopy the NVA and VC had in Vietnam
Regardless I do hope for the troops to turn into Popsicles and polar bear chow
There’s probably ways to mask yourself, but yeah. I don’t really think insurgency would work.
There will definitely be popsicles. People who don’t interact with cold often underestimate it. They do dumb stuff, fall in a ravine and die. Then again I’m not a US army vet so what do I know?
Granted, the US military can defeat Greenland’s population, but then what? What happens when we start trying to charge greenlanders taxes? When we try to install a government that the people overwhelmingly reject? Do we just turn up the oppression infinitely until they comply? Treat Greenland like the Israelis treat Gaza? I don’t think we have the state capacity or political will to do that, and in any event such a project would require cross party and inter-generational coordination that just feels impossible in the current moment.
“we’re bringing all our friends” these guys would have fallen so hard for MLP if it was explicitly racist
A lot of bronies were and are the same people who burn crosses
boil crackers
Historical note: The sixteen stripes represent colonialist expansion from the founding thirteen.
