If Vance is warning that Greenland is under threat from China and Russia, maybe Greenland should join a military alliance, like NATO for example?
Curious idea… if the MAGA bunch want to invade Canada, Greenland etc… would that place the US military under obligation to take military action against Trump?
The thing with this Greenland story that’s really weird to me is that I know from personal experience that the US were already in very developed conversations with Denmark about establishing multiple bases in Greenland. You don’t need to annex the place to keep it ‘safe’ from Russia you just need some military bases and that was already the plan.
It actually looks like these actions are designed to destroy that plan rather than actually move into Greenland.
Indeed. The thing about having allies is that they tend to try to do what you want, unless it’s completely unacceptable. What couldn’t the US get from Denmark/Greenland? What caused them to go down this road?
Well of course which is why I put safe in quotations, but like I say I don’t understand why they’re now doing everything they can do destroy that relationship which Denmark have been very open to. It seems like they actually have no interest in Greenaldn and are trying to destroy those previously established plans.
It’s like when Elon Musk was trying to destroy twitter’s valuation to get out of buying it.
Yeah, I doubt Denmark would have strongly objected to, for example, mining concessions, before all this blew up.
I think they have identified Denmark, and probably all of Scandinavia, as ideological targets, as they are the prime example of successful social democracy, and that is anathema to the Maga worldview.
High taxes, social security, healthcare, education? Yuck!
The problem with trying to enact any plan with Trump is that he is a moron who will only ever partially understand what was being discussed. He will then go out and with all the confidence of a moron who has no idea how dumb he actually is, advance his moronic interpretation of the plan. Everyone else involved in the planning is then forced in public to pivot to Trump’s version and work in the background to try to close the distance between what they are saying vs what the plan is supposed to be about.
Obviously this portends to a terrifying direction the FDA is being pushed in under this administration. And the loss of this guy’s expertise and experience will be a huge loss.
But it also shows how dysfunctional things have become. FDA is a department within HHS, but HHS has a big enough remit of its own for its director to not have the time to get involved in the minutia of the departments under its umbrella. There is a reason each of those departments have their own leadership. On an org level, higher ups reaching down into this level of management almost always results in poor results because they simply dont know the details to justify them having any input. But it also points to an HHS that has leadership that doesnt understand the brief for the department as a whole and has his eye off what HHS as its own department is supposed to oversee.
In regards to employment, they are protected characteristics, so no way can you be punished or sacked for them. Trump trying to force a UK company to ignore that would be in breach of UK law