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      My bet is tomorrow.

      Some marines probably woke up this morning and got issued cold weather gear for a surprise arctic exercise.

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    I wish his pledges were actually worth as much as his threats are, but… his threats are actually pretty credible. He’s doing the Nixon mad man thing but seems like everyone’s believing it.

    I wish I had had the courage to buy these dips he’s been manufacturing, but every time I have this feeling that if I get in there, this time it won’t be like last time.

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      Its hard to say.

      He’s known for being a pussy and running away once real opposition shows up (which Europe is doing).

      He’s also known as a liar, rapist, pedophile, conman, dementia riddled piece of shit.

      So only time will tell, unfortunately. The US is totally and utterly fucked no matter what because they won’t remove his ass. NATO with the USA is terminally ill, and every country on Earth would be psychotic to not immediately divest everything from the USA.

      I wonder if the asshole president of Argentina who’s conning American tax payers out of $40 billion USD is immediately converting it to gold the moment it reaches his bank account.

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      I hope he does. A bunch of Trump loyalists following illegal orders get spanked as they make an attempt to invade. All the Trump loyalists will be court martialed for following illegal orders. Then the U.S. comes to a screeching halt and the markets go red. Republicans get the message from their corporate donors that it’s time to dump Trump. They’ll probably put Vance in charge and then nothing gets done politically as Vance is a bigger pussy than Trump and the GOP won’t know who to follow. Which leaves the DNC to take the remaining falling pieces and sweep the mid terms. Then we are looking at about 10 years of a Democrat and moderate majority making shit worse as they stooge for their corporate donors.

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      It’s not like it’ll just come out of nowhere. There was a carrier group parked near Venezuela for months before they kidnapped Maduro.

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        Those are the Christian ghouls surrounding him getting their needs met.

        Also him for agreeing with it.

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      Yes, but trump

      The Cheetos does this All. The. Fucking. Time.

      Threaten to do something, then threaten to buy it maybe instead? Then just chicken out.

      Invading Greenland would have been successful, because of course it would have been,the IS is the best at invading right now. But keeping Greenland? That would have cost thousands of US lives, insurgencies all over the place, it would be a shit show.

      So now trump tacos… again.

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          They also only live in a pretty small area of the country.

          Or maybe just deport them? To where you ask? Who cares, USA clearly doesn’t.

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      This is more “he agrees with the last person he talked to” thing he always does. Peter Theil still wants his shithole utopia on Greenland, so he will likely flip back when he talks with him again.

      So stupid all of this.

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      Yeah the dude flips more than a light switch. He says what he thinks sounds good for that moment. That’s the limit of his ideals, unless it makes money then he does that.

      Cause he’s a greedy narcissist. Really that’s all you need to know, if it benefits him (I think he thought calming down rhetoric during that speech would make him appear better) he does it, that’s it. No deep end, no big 4d chess, he’s simpler than peasants portrayed in movies.

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        He’s going to invade Iceland because thats what this is really about… hes just so dumb to know the difference

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    Oh, and you can count on Trump to keep a promise, right?

    Anyway, I don’t even see a pledge. I see a dishonest expression of regret:

    “I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force,” Trump said in a speech to government and business leaders in Davos. “Now everyone’s saying, ‘Oh good.’”

    That’s the energy of an abusive partner: “I don’t want to hurt you, but you’re giving me no option here.” It’s how they settle their conscience right before they hurt you.

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      And he will soon win the Preparation H Peace Prize in addition to the Footy Peace Prize he’s already won!

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      Yes that was a good speech, very much because it was a speech about facing a new reality, not saying directly but very clearly indicating that USA is not to be trusted, and we shouldn’t pretend as if they are.
      Canada has made 12 International trade and/or defense deals in 6 moths. 👍 😀
      That’s very impressive considering such deals usually take years to negotiate. And despite that I recently saw Canadians complain their government doesn’t do enough about the situation with USA? ⁉️

      In much the same way EU has escalated international deals to increase independence from USA.
      The clear winner here is of course China, so congratulations on that Trump!

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    This is just taking every single word that comes out of Trump’s mouth seriously. A bad tactic.