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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 119 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

NGL if the USA invades anywhere other than Russia, I'll be enlisting for the other side.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 89 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

As a Canadian, the moment tanks roll across the border I'm going feral. This is not the future we were promised in our youth. Sovereignty is non-negotiable.

[–] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm with you buddy i will use the rest of my life making canada a useless wasteland before i let those fucktard take 1 inch of land

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Might I suggest buying a few cheap drones? If every Canadian had five cheap drones and access to special recipes any occupation would be costly and extremely expensive.

[–] OutlierBlue 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The only recipes I have are for muffins. I'm a terrible baker though, so that might still work.

[–] masterofn001 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Make the muffins using Styrofoam and gasoline.

Stuff Styrofoam in a glass container. Fill up.

When ready to bake Heat wick to 350°

^I love the smell of napalm muffins in the morning.^

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

if the military doesnt go against trump and refuse, itll be a repeat of “just following orders”

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Nah bruv, it’s probably far more effective to engage in sabotage at home.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Start with the propaganda outlets and think tanks.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If I was single and childless I'd be more than tempted to go fight in Ukraine. That might be the most productive and objectively noble thing anyone could do right now to stop Putin and maybe, by extension, the US.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

IDK. Luigi did a lot and didn't have to leave the US to do it.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But over there shooting bad people is legal.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

I was tempted but Ukraine made a public statement that they need armaments, not untrained fighters.

You could do more damage as fifth column resistance from the inside, but enlisting on the opposite side would be easier.

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[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It’s a very small population, but a very, very large piece of land.

Sounds like the king of clowntown has been looking at a Mercator projection again. It's an easy mistake for people who don't know what they're talking about to make.

I stole this from reddit:

And this interest in Greenland smacks of the game of "Risk", which might be the basis of his foreign policy.

I'm which case, he should mass forces on New Zealand.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's still, like, a quarter of the US landmass (eyeball measurement), which is big

[–] Hoimo@ani.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The total area of Greenland is 2.1 million km², but where other countries have usable land and maybe some lakes, Greenland has 1.7 million km² of ice. There's some land under there, but much less than you might think:

Topographic map of Greenland (Wikipedia)

The US has 9.1 million km² of actual land, so if we're counting the ice, a quarter is about right.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

oh wow, there's a whole pond in the middle ! wonder if it's salty

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

there’s a whole pond in the middle

Well yes, but actually no.

That part in the middle is land that has a miles-thick pile of ice on top of it. There's probably not any significant amount of liquid water on that land under the ice right now, and (in the long term) there probably still wouldn't be any liquid water on it because isostatic rebound would cause the land to lift if the ice were removed. I haven't found any sources that definitively claim whether the magnitude of the rebound would be enough to get all of it above sea level, but my guess is that it would.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's still a very large peice of land.

This has interesting maps https://youtu.be/rCBt4XgCX-0

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[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That sounds like a declaration of war

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A threat of war, sure. But you don't declare war like that clip of "declaring" bankruptcy. Even with all the wars the US has started, the last one declared was in 1942. Until Congress formally declares war, or troops start to move in, it's still just a threat.

That said, it is a threat that everyone should take very seriously.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well then the concept of declaration of war you're presenting is worth jack shit since the US has ravaged countries for decades after 1942

All it means is that congress' approval is not needed to wage war, so this threat is way closer to a declaration than what you estimate

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is true, but I'm unclear on what the last authorization of force -- that was hastily passed by Congress during whatever crisis or whatever lull between crises preemptively -- authorizes the prezzy to do without a war declaration.

Congress has continually abdicated its position as a co-equal branch of government.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This shit show brought to you be the American voter, who pissed away 80 years of good will and American economic dominance out of sheer stupidity. Make Russia an Empire Again!

[–] Whateley@lemm.ee 32 points 2 weeks ago

This asshole is the kind of bumbling cartoonishly psychotic politician you read about on surviving pre-bomb terminals in Fallout.

[–] SovsensMester@feddit.dk 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump is a Russian asset. Americans have become the taliban of the West.

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 26 points 2 weeks ago

I read a reaction from a Greenlandic politician. He was mostly upset about the laugh track that followed Trump saying "incredible people".

Watch the clip again if you didn't notice.

It's perfectly reasonable that they don't want to be addressed like that. The politician went on to call it an "unacceptable human view".

I agree. The act of the middle school bully doesn't translate into anything remotely strong or respectable. It's just disgusting. It doesn't matter who or what they're talking about, and when presenting themselves by giggles and eye-rolling, they're really only presenting their own insecurity by hiding their disgusting views in the support of a laugh track.

I am from Denmark, which actually colonized Greenland. We have made mistakes and treated them badly in the past for sure, but never like that. We have never laughed in their faces when doing so.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ukraine was the Sudetenland, but I didn't expect like this.

[–] oz1sej@discuss.online 14 points 2 weeks ago

The United States of America is a rogue state.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Danish special forces are watching you...

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[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

You know, you could always just buy their raw materials.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Serious question, if the states did invade somewhere, whether it's Greenland, Canada or Panama, what countries would actually be willing to use military force to stop them?

Would they end up going to China for aid?

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

We might find out this year.

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[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Greenland isn’t for sale, and coercion isn’t diplomacy. This will backfire internationally.

🐱🐱

[–] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

at this point, that seems to be the goal

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I got bone spurs though.

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