• TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      Yesn’t.

      It very much is a distraction and Trump uses these threats to draw eyes away from other things he doesn’t want the world looking at.

      But they are still very serious threats to make and they normalise this behaviour. We cannot forget that the Trump admin has attacked other nations after making threats like this (Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, etc) and slashed trade relations with many others.

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      Well issue is Denmark can’t ignore it, nor can it’s allies. Though maybe Americans can take a “sooo what about Epstein” stance. Atleast followed with strict enough protesting. Like ehhh the kind that would get POTUS deposed. both for Epstein and for threatening to invade and annex sovereign nation.

      Then again when does it get bad enough, Epstein is the distraction from USA’s threat to invade occupy and annex another sovereign nation.

      For peoples information Denmark maintains currently a battallion of anti-invasion troops on Greenland. That is how much no sovereign nation can take threats of “we gonna invade and occupy” lightly. Atleast given what force posture of USA and Greenland are.

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        You’re right, i meant more we the people reading the news; not necessarily the intelligence community or the politicians they inform.

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      WTF are you talking about? Did Americans ever react in significant numbers to do anything to get rid of Trump yet that I didn’t hear about? What is it you think is happening when Americans are NOT distracted? I’ll tell you what happens. Nada nothing zero zilch.

      Why don’t you finally STFU Americans and do something, Trump is a representative of America as a country, and your country is waging illegal war, and threatening allies, and undermining the global economy.
      How about some of you woke up and did something?
      When your country is doing this, Americans as a people are as guilty as Israelis are, and the Germans were during WW2.
      You can’t blame this on Americans falling for distractions, Americans have done nothing about these issues since the 70’s.

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    Because I can see it from my north facing window!..oh wait, that’s Canada. Shouldn’t we own Canada? I mean, it’s right there! Shouldn’t we own it? We could make a lot of money if we owned Canada.