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"We need Greenland for national security." My understanding is that we have an existing agreement that lets us do virtually anything we need militarily in Greenland. It's also under the control of an ally. Is Trump really willing to blow up NATO in order to attempt to seize Greenland? Why? Is it for the minerals? Is he just old and goofy? What am I missing?

Xan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 11:02 am "We need Greenland for national security." My understanding is that we have an existing agreement that lets us do virtually anything we need militarily in Greenland. It's also under the control of an ally. Is Trump really willing to blow up NATO in order to attempt to seize Greenland? Why? Is it for the minerals? Is he just old and goofy? What am I missing?

It's all a product of all of living in incomprehensible Trump World!

No reasonable, logical explanations for a LOT of things.

Maybe you're right, Vinny.

Also I thought one of the worst things about a potential Harris presidency was that she wanted to do price controls. Now suddenly Trump is not only for price controls (at least for credit card interest), but he's for government ownership of companies. Isn't that straight-up communism? Yikes!

I can't say that I have read much into the situation but I did read that there is now more European defenses going into Greenland now.

I figured that was really the end goal. If he has to threaten to take it over himself to get it to be defended then that ends up being a pretty good deal.

Coming off of the Venezuela situation makes you think we were really going to invade Greenland but I think having it defended by allies will be just as well.

The saying is, take Trump seriously but not literally.

I guess it sounds like typical Trump negotiation tactics.

His administration should tell him he'd be better off buying or taking over Greece; it's warmer there, and it sounds similar in German too.

Grönland — Griechenland

Grinch wrote: ↑Sat Jan 17, 2026 2:37 am His administration should tell him he'd be better off buying or taking over Greece; it's warmer there, and it sounds similar in German too.

Grönland — Griechenland

Don't give him / them such ideas!!! They might do it solely for the reasons that you state!

Greece has no natural resources.
That’s why they built a navy and conquered the world.

Xan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 11:02 am Why? ... What am I missing?

This is what comes to my mind regarding Greenland takeover talk, Venezuela military action, ICE operations, Fed Chair criminal investigation, etc. It all distracts from the Epstein files.

Best comment I read all week: "If the Justice Dept. is as incompetent at investigating Powell as it has been in delivering all the Epstein files, Powell may be in his job for a long time."

There are way too many people possessing a "dog with a bone" mentality regarding this topic. Determined, relentless, they are not giving up until the facts come out. It will continue to haunt the administration.

Xan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 4:08 pm Maybe you're right, Vinny.

Also I thought one of the worst things about a potential Harris presidency was that she wanted to do price controls. Now suddenly Trump is not only for price controls (at least for credit card interest), but he's for government ownership of companies. Isn't that straight-up communism? Yikes!

Even the seemingly innocuous Trump accounts are more of the same. The government buys up the SP500, holds it in an account for you, and then later gets a cut when you pay taxes on it.

Last election, we truly had two awful choices. I still feel that Harris would have been way worse, though.

And I was okay with Trump the first time. I heard it put this way recently, “The best things said about him are true, but so are the worst things.”

TACO Wednesday? The President does seem to fear the bond market.

But not as much as he fears the Epstein files.