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I really hope the rest of the world takes America seriously right now. We are about to become a massive threat (not to say we aren't already) and if we are handled with the same level of meh that the voters handled this election it's gonna get ugly.
These are threats. Not even all that thinly veiled.
Although keeping Trump busy with Greenland might do the rest of the world a favor. Get his nut followers to demand boots on the ground. Have them go to war with walruses.
Trump isn't being kept busy with Greenland, Trump is keeping the news cycle busy.
It's "wag the dog", and has been a standard GOP ploy for years now. Like how he banned trans folks from the military during his impeachment hearings, right when they were talking about the Magnitsky Act and how it impacted Putin and Trump.
No one thinks it's going to happen, it's to keep everyone distracted as he takes office and starts dismantling things and consolidating power. If it actually could happen they'll cross that bridge when they come to it.
It’s all fun and games unless he actually succeeds somehow…then we’re in for a world of shit. You can look forward to every other greedy dictator attacking neighbors they feel should be part of their countries, now that the US has led the way.
No, start taking all these things seriously. Why wouldn't Greenland/Denmark put some resources into it? What other superpower is making threats against their sovereign land?
Figure out what media channels, what sort of disinformation avenues will be used, what major political parties would be corrupted... Assess, implement whatever policies can help combat these vectors, and worst case, if Trump wasn't serious, you've strengthened your country against foreign influence campaigns.
Best case, Trump is serious, but you make it just difficult enough that he fucks off to do some other bullshit instead.
And if it's all a distraction for something else, then address that something else in parallel.
It's like how the media wouldn't call Trump out on lies just because he does it so much. No. Fucking call him out every time. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, you just blatantly lied, here's the receipts, here's the clip, stop fucking talking about other shit until you explain this. Instead we just get bedazzled by his torrent of bullshit and just start hoping for the best, which clearly is not working in our favor.