I think, and others do as well, that the Greenland thing is the red line. Donald Trump is a very dangerous lunatic: “delivering the single most damaging blow to U.S. national security since the attack on Pearl Harbor, one that would in fact make both Russia and China
immeasurably stronger.”
“He is just
a dangerous lunatic moron who has become the most powerful man in the world.
And if you do not recognize that, you are part of the problem.”
He is not just joking. He is not just trolling.
He is not owning the libs. He is not simply
toying with the mainstream media.
He is not playing 3-D chess.
He is not a master of
the art of the deal. He is not a business genius. He is not a political savant.
He is not a
peacemaker. He does not believe in “America first” or even know what it means. And he has
no intention of making America “great again.”
No matter who you are, no matter how close you are to him, he does not represent you or even care about your interests.
No. He’s none of the good or great things the
slavering fluffers in his Cabinet or on his White House staff make him out to be. And none of the defenses his enablers on Capitol Hill and in the press and across the country have used in the past work any longer.
He is just
a dangerous lunatic moron who has become the most powerful man in the world.
And if you do not recognize that, you are part of the problem.
That was never clearer than during the past couple of days.
Take
the note Trump reportedly sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store. In it, Trump asserted that because Norway did not give him the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped “8 Wars PLUS,” he no longer felt
“an obligation to think purely of Peace.”
He went on to imply that, because
Denmark could not protect Greenland from Russia or China, because he questioned
their “right of ownership,” and because he has done “more for NATO than any other person since its founding” that “the World is not secure unless we have complete and Total Control of Greenland.” It was not simply one of the strangest diplomatic messages ever sent; it was the kind of symptom of mental illness that typically gets people sent away to a quiet place where they can
receive much-needed psychiatric care for a long, long time.
It was so full of errors and lies that it is hard to tell which are testimony to his ignorance, which to his delusions and which to his malevolence. The
Nobel Peace Prize is, for example, awarded by a committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament. The Prime Minister does not choose who is selected—a reality that
Trump’s authoritarian world viewhas a hard time comprehending, apparently.
Also, for the umpteenth time, Trump has not
stopped eight wars. It is unclear whether he has stopped any. Most of the “peace deals” for which he claims credit remain festering wounds (Gaza, Cambodia-Thailand, Rwanda-DRC) while others were not wars during his term of office (Egypt-Ethiopia, Serbia-Kosovo). One was a conflict he initiated (the U.S.
attack on Iran), one has not produced a final deal (Armenia-Azerbaijan) and in a couple Trump had no meaningful impact (India-Pakistan and, again, Egypt-Ethiopia).
Annexing Greenland is, of course, not in the interest of the United States for several reasons. One is that, by treaty, we have all the access to it that we would ever need. Another is that, since it is under the sovereign control of Denmark, it is part of NATO and is defended by what was, until now, the world’s most powerful alliance.
There is also not the slightest hint that Russia or China is even threatening Greenland. Rather, by seizing it, we would actually be blowing up the NATO compact and thus delivering the single most damaging blow to U.S. national security since the attack on Pearl Harbor, one that would in fact make both Russia and China
immeasurably stronger.