Greenland is Still Preparing to Defend Itself
America, this should be a wake up call
When your allies become your biggest threat, the world feels like it’s turned upside down.
I’m Canadian. I know that all too well. And our fellow Arctic comrades, the Greenlanders and the Danes, are learning it as well.
Trump’s crusade to expand the U.S. — and with it, his power base — remains strong. He has threatened and perpetrated military action abroad, and he’s been out there talking shit about a lot of people who the U.S. used to depend on as close neighbours and friends.
Comrades in arms. People who used to be counted on as allies.
But now Trump is posting memes, talking openly about conquering our nations and taking us under his flacid, frail-looking wing. And we all know what it’s about.
It’s his legacy he’s thinking of, but it’s also our resources. Our natural wealth: minerals, fresh water, lumber, metal ores — the travel possibilities through the oceans we patrol and protect.
He wants our oil. He’s already sniffing at the reserves in Greenland, which he thinks he can just… take. Without permission or clearance from the local government.
He wants what we have, and he plans to get his tiny little hands on it one way or another, whether we like it or not. As we know all too well from his convictions, his accusations, and the files he’s trying so hard to hide, he does not take ‘no’ for an answer.
Greenland is so worried they’ve been building up an expanded troop presence from Denmark, even to the point of importing blood to their military bases. That may not sound like much, but the soldiers and veterans in my audience know what that means.
It means they’re preparing for the possibility of their troops being shot in armed conflict and needing transfusions.
They’re actively readying for war with the United States.
A few years ago, that would have been unthinkable. Now it’s the norm. Tensions are rising as more and more authoritarian overreaches pour out of Trump’s White House and the norms of civility and democracy continue to break down.
If there’s one thing fascism needs to keep going, it’s an enemy for the people to focus their outrage on.
There must always be an ‘Other,’ always a war, and the day peace reigns is the day the regime falls apart. Once there’s no enemy, the people will look for someone else to blame for their troubles. Trump’s cronies know that if they can’t redirect people’s fear and anger, they’ll set their sights on their own government.
It’s a sad state of affairs, but here we are.
And while he’s out there doing all of this and pissing off all of his one-time friends, he’s ignoring the major problems he’s supposed to be dealing with at home. Drought. Potential food shortages and rising inflation. Loss of access to medical care, and home ownership out of reach.
Poverty, hunger, water, medicine. These ought to be the wheelhouse of any President, the main concerns he or she ought to have.
But Trump doesn’t worry about anything but himself, and his lackeys in the government are just singing his praises and extolling the virtues of war to keep people’s eyes on the wrong problems abroad.
Things won’t get better until he and his sycophantic bosom-buddies are gone.
Solidarity wins.
I’m back! Sort of. I’m starting to properly recover from this nasty bug, and I hope to be back on track shortly. I’m shaking out the cobwebs and working on some stuff to publish and/or record soon.
Bear with me, guys! I hate being sick as much as all y’all do.