(6 hours ago)F2d5thCav Wrote: Had to laugh while reading Germany is organizing a NATO mission to protect Greenland.
From Trump. The witless ones in Berlin weren't concerned about what the Russians or Chinese may have in mind for that territory.
From Third Reich to Turd-Like in 80 years.
I hard about that just yesterday. What I heard was that Germany, France, and the UK were all three sending military troops to defend Greenland against the Big Ugly Americans. If that's so, then I'd call it mission accomplished - NATO is already fracturing when parts of NATO send their troops to fight other parts of NATO.
It's just more evidence of just how far our objectives in starting NATO to begin with have diverged over time, more evidence that NATO is past it's sell-by date.
All 3 of those nations have fought against the Americans before, and all 3 of them have fought along side the Americans before, so they ought to have a good idea of just what they are up against, and just how bad the marks it leaves are gonna hurt. BUT - a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, even if it leaves NATO as a concept in a heap of smoking slag. The UK and Germany in particular are no slouches when it comes to war, but we've all managed to survive and heal from our previous scuffles, and we all will again... but NATO itself will not be so lucky. It won't survive the internal fracturing.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
