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Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous. (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 days ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/politics@beehaw.org

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[–] ninjaphysics@beehaw.org 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Holy f. This piss poor administration is showing just how incompetent they truly are. Everyone will suffer for their actions. I had no idea just how much the US gained in having peaceful relations with traditional allies, and so many Americans have been blissfully unaware just how f'd that all has become in record time. Way to go, a holes.

Reading that Denmark lost just as many soldiers post-9/11 as the US did, I'm in shock as to how idiotic our education system is that it wasn't highlighted how brave contributions allies have provided over the years has helped us, and of course not just in war time. As an American, I'm truly sorry to the rest of the world for not knowing the great extent of solidarity and kindness allies have shown over the years. Of course, I understand why that's likely no longer going to be the case.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago

The article made other interesting points, such as

We are the only ones ever to have invoked article 5, the mutual defence obligation of the Nato treaty, after 9/11; and our European allies did respond.

and

The US has fallen well behind its allies and its rivals in the Arctic, in part because members of Vance’s political party denied for decades the reality of global warming, which has made it hard for the US navy to persuade Congress of the need to commission icebreaker ships.

Ever since I started getting interested in US politics (thanks Trump 1.0) I noticed how bad their foreign policies are, and how unaware gen pop is of what's going on around the globe. Countless presidents campaigned on a painfully simplified "good guys vs bad guys, and of course we're the good guys" narrative.

I guess there used to be knowledgeable people in the background, but now they've all been "project2025'd" or "schedule effed", and all the government has left are those dumb narratives, with the dumbest of them all, who never knew any different, at the top.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago

Yea but we bombed Japan and we're besties now!

Surely, an unprovoked and unnecessary takeover would result in the same thing!