Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan. 20 and as a delegation of aides and advisers that includes his son Donald Trump Jr. is in Greenland, Trump left open the use of the American military to secure both territories.

“I’m not going to commit to that,” he said, when asked if he would rule out the use of the military. “It might be that you’ll have to do something. The Panama Canal is vital to our country.” He added, “We need Greenland for national security purposes.” Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, a longtime U.S. ally and a founding member of NATO.

  • @DicJacobus
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    192 days ago

    Ww3 already started 3 years ago when russia started shooting at Ukraine.

    People just don’t believe ww3 is anything other than nukes falling. So global conflict with clear lines drawn * withoutb atomic booms . Many people thibk is just bauiness as usual

    *(until America decides to switch sides that is).

    • @[email protected]
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      111 day ago

      It’s just the second cold war. You’ll know WW3 started when NATO invokes Article 5. Until then, it’s all just proxies.

      In the first cold war there were proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc. Now it’s Ukraine and Israel/Syria/Lebanon.

      • @Axiochus
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        319 hours ago

        I’d say that a proxy war that penetrates onto Russian territory (Kursk Oblast) and borders EU countries is a little hotter than Afghanistan.

      • @DicJacobus
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        -11 day ago

        by that logic, it started in 2001 then, when NATO invoked article 5.

        • @[email protected]
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          91 day ago

          I’m soooo sorry I didn’t specify that it would need to be invoked against a significant nation-state and that a concept like terrorism doesn’t count. I understand that could be very confusing otherwise.

    • TimeSquirrel
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      102 days ago

      Then according to that logic all of the Cold War was WW3 because at this point it’s still just a couple of proxy wars going on. No great/super powers are in direct conflict with each other.

      Call me when China and Russia decide to team up and attack Boston.

      • @DicJacobus
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        -21 day ago

        we are essentially fighting the same conflict as world war 2. the only difference is people forget WW2 wasn’t a 2 way conflict, it was a 3 way one.

        Democratic Allies, Vs Fascist Axis, Vs Communist Comintern

        the only thing that’s changed in 80 years is the second and third teams more or less merged into one.