Bulletins and News Discussion from January 13th to January 19th, 2025 - From Mar-A-Lago to Nuuk - COTW: Denmark (including Greenland)

Image is of Donald Trump Jr. in Greenland, proudly demonstrating what he's learned in his standing lessons.

The imperial core is continuing the process of self-cannibalization as the interimperial wars between Europe and the US over resource and territorial control continue. Greenland, populated with less than a hundred thousand heavily exploited people, is the newest territory to fall under Trump's gaze. The main draw is the mineral resources present there, of which it boasts nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum, and much more than remains unexplored under the ice. But the ice is melting, and profit must be made. There is an additional element of wanting Arctic territory to counter Chinese and especially Russian interests and aims; Russia is increasingly eyeing the northern Arctic route as an alternative to more vulnerable routes through the Suez Canal or around Africa, and is investing heavily in icebreakers for that purpose.

However, even if Europe possessed the desire to resist American annexations - and they absolutely do not, at the end of the day - they do not even have the ability. Denmark may, to a lesser or greater extent, make angry sounds and talk about national honour or some such, but their military would be trampled underfoot by even the New York Police Department, let alone a concerted military effort by the US. If Trump wants Greenland, he will have it. This will naturally increase the grumbling in Europe about reconsidering the Transatlantic alliance, and that grumbling may, in the medium-term future, as the American Empire continues its decline, lead to meaningful results. But in the short term, Europe shall have to bear whatever Trump throws at them, for they obviously cannot now ally with Russia, who was the natural counterweight to American interests for decades before 2022.

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Can someone give me some reasons the us went three with the Nayriah testimony for Desert storm, since they could have just used the invasion of a US ally as pretext(other increase public approval ig)
- At a very high level, the Vietnam War had ended for the US only 17 years prior and a lot of Americans were still very hesitant to send US troops to anything that wasn't a Grenada-level conflict that would be done in a weekend. The Emir of Kuwait at the time, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, was himself a despotic piece of shit who had dissolved the National Assembly of Kuwait 4 years prior to the invasion and was cracking down very heavily on the pro-democracy movement and journalists in the country. The ruling elite of Kuwait had very much the reputation that the UAE and other GCC counties also have now, of being a bunch of rich partyboy douchebags who basically used slave labor to keep their economy running. Kuwait was essentially not a country that Americans would be willing to send their kids to die for. So the Emir hired a bunch of US PR firms, law firms, and lobbyists to run a huge PR campaign to make it look like Kuwait was a country worth sending Americans to die for, and that included orchestrating the false Nayirah testimony. Falsely accusing your opponents of killing innocent little babies in order to get your population behind a war is something that goes back much further than just 10/7, because it's worked on quite a few occasions.
  Oh, and I forgot to add, the testimony was given in front of the "Congressional Human Rights Caucus", which was just a group of bipartisan politicians headquartered out of the DC office of the main PR firm hired by the Emir. That meant that no one could be prosecuted for lying to Congress because the hearings weren't actually official Congressional proceedings.
- Maybe get more Western countries on board