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      I’m not fully sure the PM of Greenland even gets to decide on something like that as it is an autonomous region of Denmark, while autonomous it is still a colonial region of a European country that is in NATO, Trump annexing them would only hurt their people, but don’t be mistaken it is not a sovereign country currently, most of it’s diplomatic relations take place in Copenhagen

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      actually, this makes agent orange’s comments about Greenland make more sense now. Where is one of the US’ closest early warning systems to Russia? PSB. How do you increase the liklihood that that station gets shut down or at least make it harder to re-supply/support? Get the operating nation and hosting nation to sever ties…

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      That was my first thought. But that is just what putin wants, and probably why he told the useful idiot to say this.

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    Greenland was getting this anyway. Clickbait headline tying it to Trump.

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        Considerimg what’s literally happening right now, literally today, that’s a pretty hot take.

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            Millions of Ukrainians spending Christmas day without powered due to 70 missile attack from an aggressive neighbour.

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              I want to make very, very sure you read my entire comment. People spending Christmas without power is all it takes for you to put on the armband and throw your support behind the “gas em all 1488 racial holy war now” faction and become an enemy of like 98% of humanity? If so, incredible unprompted mask drop. Like, for real? Because that and worse happens in war all the time dude. You don’t see me growing a little tiny mustache just because I think Dresden was overkill. Would that have been enough to turn you into a hitlerite back then too?

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        Ask the Poles how the Soviets treated them

        Don’t trust the Poles? Ask any number of victim countries brutalized.

        That ‘boogeyman’ ex-KGB is doing it today to Ukraine…

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        NATO is just one manifestation of military industrial complex. Just getting rid of it without any global change it would be net negative for the humanity.

        The primary issue with NATO is that it’s often misused by US for its own personal needs.

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          The primary purpose of NATO is to maintain western hegemony over the global south to better extract resources and profit from it. It being gone is a net good

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            Yes, the primary issue I mention is the purpose you are talking about. Thank you for repeating what I said. It being disbanded wouldn’t automatically be net positive, since despite the issues it creates, it does serve other valid purposes. You need to address systemic issues, not manifestations of those issues to solve anything. Because if not NATO, it would be another 4 letter organization doing exactly the same thing by exactly the same people.

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                • Standardization of military equipment and protocols, so that each NATO country can operate the same equipment without needing re-training.
                • Unified communication infrastructure for instant information sharing during wartime period.
                • Protection from Russia’s imperialism and stated goal of reunification of former USSR territories.
                • Containment of Germany following their demilitarization.