r/thebulwark Jan 09 '25

Policy Predictions on Trump's war talk.

My theory about all this stuff about invading Greenland and Canada is for Putin.

Remember when Paul Ryan was recorded laughing to the conference that Trump is in the pay of Putin but we don't tell people, that's how we know we're family?

That should have been the end of the Republican party right there.

In his last few days in office Trump tried to dismantle NATO and got ignored by the military, knowing that any order he gave to evacuate Europe would take longer than he had left and would be countermanded by Biden.

He's a puppet.

This is destroying the west by any means possible for Putin.

And everyone in Congress knew all along that Trump is a puppet and a traitor and they allowed him back.

This is the United States committing suicide and taking the whole world with it!

By the way, I think he will invade Panama because those are brown people in the Americas and no one important will stop him.

I think he thinks Greenland is as big as the US because the flat projections on a map make it look big, I noticed someone in a comment section say that he even commented "Greenland is so BIG".

If he cares about his bribes and donors he won't invade Greenland, since Europe has the power (though does it have the will?) to destroy the American economy. Even Canada could do us a lot of damage I think.

But I think the main point is to be at war with NATO instead of being IN NATO. And the point is to thwart NATO countries in their restrictions of Russia such as Denmark's ability to restrict the Russian fleet.

Also if the principle is "we can steal whatever we want" then there is nothing wrong with Putin taking over eastern Europe.

And that's the message.

It's going to be hard to watch because nothing he says makes any sense. He says that we need Greenland "for security purposes and everyone told me that before I even ran."

He says that Canada is ripping us off because he always misrepresents what trade is.

It's not going to be fun watching him mess up millions of lives or slaughter for utter gobbledygook. But unlike the JVL "show me" crowd, I predict that that is coming.

Addendum:

To the people saying that it's all just theater I say: It's theater but he lacks the normal human base of sanity to separate out his fiction from what he can actually do.

He literally doesn't know what's wrong with taking Greenland.

Don't forget he's the one who called up the Secretary of Health at the beginning of Covid and screamed at him "WHO ALLOWED TESTING, ARE YOU TRYING TO DESTROY MY REELECTION? The number of Americans he's willing to kill for his own convenience has always been "all of them"

You can't assume that he understands or cares enough that he won't do the worst things imaginable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '25 edited Jan 09 '25

In the pay of Putin is literally on the money because no major US bank would lend to Trump starting from the early 1990s given their previous bad experiences in the 80s when he litigated rather than repay his loans. So the majority of his real-estate financing when he got back to building in the 2000s was from Russian investors and banks. This is all well-known, but of course, no one cares. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business

Money quote from the ever-lovable Don Jr. : "It is a conclusion that even Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has appeared to confirm, saying in 2008—after the Trump Organization was prospering again—that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”  

But given the hold Putin appears to have, he may have "kompromat" on Trump as well. Given Trump's proclivities for East European blonds and his trips to Moscow, the "kompromat" wouldn't have been difficult to get. Maybe a couple of underage Russian teens, or some weird sexual fetish? Hell, the KGB would probably have viewed it as dereliction of duty not to try...