Considering the response of European leadership to kidnapping of Maduro, I don't think Trump will even need to fight Europe to annex Greenland. They'll give it up voluntarily, maybe throw in Iceland as a bonus to show His Lordship how loyal his vassals are. They are a colonized people.
You probably recognise the woman on the left, the PM of Denmark.
You may not recognise the dude on the right, but he comes from a country that gave us the motto which vocally expresses the solidarity he is physically expressing in the pic: "all for one, and one for all"
If we may talk brass tacks, he also has several boomers that could lob a bus or a few at the new White House ballroom. Half an hour flight time if they didn't bother to leave their home base; shorter than that if they fired from somewhere in the Atlantic: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/17070508372...
And what do you suggest EU does if Trump decides to invade Greenland ? Going to war against Putin could be considered, but trying to fight both Trump and Putin would be suicidal.
Unfortunately it seems the only option at the moment is to wait for American people to wake up and replace Trump in two years from now ... If they ever have the opportunity to vote again of course.
Will whoever replaces Trump do things any differently in this area? Harvard-Harris polled Americans last month and found strong majority support for the U.S. arresting Maduro: https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HHP... (page 53). 83% of Democrats said Maduro should be removed, and 73% of Democrats who thought Maduro should be removed though the U.S. should do it. So 60% net. America seems to be in a Manifest Destiny mood, not just Trump.
Greenland has tremendous mineral resources and Denmark doesn’t have the capacity to extract them. If the U.S. decides that it needs to keep China from stepping in and developing Greenland’s resources, then it will do what it needs to do. Trump will just be boisterously upfront about it.
> Maduro and his top people have all been indicted by the United States for narco-terrorism and other charges, and there is a $50 million
reward for his capture by the U.S. government. Maduro lost the last election and he has tanked the economy, but kept in power anyway and as a result millions of Venezuelans have entered the US. Should we arrest Maduro and take him to the U.S. to face trial or not try to arrest him? Given this situation on the ground, should the president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro be removed from office or not?
This is the very definition of a leading question, with extremely slanted language at that. Judging by others instances of this in the poll, I can’t take this pollster seriously.
I believe in free markets within a single jurisdiction. Even expanding to multiple states poses problems: e.g. Tennessee can use freedom of commerce domestically undercut labor and environmental regimes California want. And if you zoom out further to include geopolitics and government intervention in seeking critical resources, then no, I don’t believe in the free market for that. I believe that each country is a distinct economic actor in an anarchy of nations.
> Greenland has tremendous mineral resources and Denmark doesn’t have the capacity to extract them. If the U.S. decides that it needs to keep China from stepping in and developing Greenland’s resources, then it will do what it needs to do. Trump will just be boisterously upfront about it.
> ...wait for American people to wake up and replace Trump in two years from now ...
Probably not going to happen. Too much of the American economy depends on the massive grift continuing. The average citizen’s impact on policy before 2016 was already quite small; today it’s practically infinitesimal.
Chinese workers are not "low paid" relative to prices of goods in China though. A Chinese worker gluing an iPhone together can afford a decent middle class lifestyle, the Chinese version of the "American dream".
What America really needs is massive deflation in the cost of everything, curbing income inequality (which is driving inflation) and moving to renewables (cost of oil/gas also drives inflation).
Deflation is never going to be allowed to happen even if economic conditions allow it. The reason that the Federal Reserve wants inflation at ~2% is so that nobody hoards cash in their home and instead spends it before it loses value or puts it in a bank to lend to the economy or invests it. Deflation would mean that you could hoard cash and it would grow in value, leading to less money available for economic growth.
>> Chinese workers are not "low paid" relative to prices of goods in China though. A Chinese worker gluing an iPhone together can afford a decent middle class lifestyle, the Chinese version of the "American dream
I'm pretty sure this is what Apple wants you to believe, while Chinese company offers minimal wage for workers who assemble phones. One could never afford a decent lifestyle on a minimal wage.
Yes, and a big part of the reason labor costs are so high is that living costs are high. The US worker is saturated with debt, fees, payments, rents of every stripe.
