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All that's going to happen is the US spending the same or more on defence while their relative strength vs everything else will diminish.

Far-right candidates in other countries aren't openly musing about annexing allies through military force.

Also, everyone should try hot tub champagne at least once, or it's low rent cousin the shower beer. Something about a cold bubbly beverage in a hot steamy environment enhances both pleasure.

Sort of related but I've always wanted to rent a chalet at a ski resort with an outdoor hot tub so I can be outside in the freezing cold, while sitting in a hot tub, whole sipping a cold beer.

It's like giving a middle finger to thermodynamics itself.

All that's going to happen is that the US will continue spending the same or more of the military, while others will also build up theirs and the relative strength of the US will diminish. You will definitely not be saving those billions.

That's a you problem. Get your fucking dog back on a leash. Most US voters voted for this and the ones who don't vote don't matter.

Most voters voted for this and those who don't vote don't matter.

The US is never more than 4 years away from electing a lunatic. Soft power is not really a possibility anymore.

Why is Denmark even offering anything at all

As others have pointed out, the US play here is likely to be stopping payments for the current US military based in Greenland but not leaving, testing its limits (operating outside of the designated areas), and generally just begging for a response. At this point the Danish (and the EU generally) will have to choose - if they do nothing then it'll encourage more of this BS in Greenland and elsewhere. If they respond with any force it'll be what Trump wants. He'll use it as pretense for...whatever he wants to do.

This behaviour will make it far less likely that all of the US international partners will renew military base leases or sign new ones, and long term it will diminish American military power globally, but nobody in MAGA let alone Trump are really thinking beyond the immediate anyways.

So the answer your question, the Danes are trying to avoid all of that BS.

Many citations needed. Or is all of that just your opinion provided without reasoning?

Most of those cops voted for Trump.

Trump is purposefully threatening Canada to give his canadian conservative buddy Poilievre something to "fight" against, to make him look good

This theory is predicated on 1) Trump remembering who PP is, 2) caring enough about who is running Canada to have it drive policy.

I don't think either of these things are true.

There was a time that a president issuing pardons to people who immediately reoffended would have paid a political price for it. That is not the current situation.

I don't understand. Does asking intentionally obstuse questions make me sound smart? Does it make it actually smart?

I can see her getting on the supreme Court soon if Thomas or Alito are in the mood to retire. It's always useful to set the precedent that being blatantly biased towards Trump will pay off.

Comparing the Warren court to this is straight up comical.

I haven't seen that episode in probably 15 years and I still remember exactly what this was.

Cool sentiment, but they all vote every time and we don't so it doesn't matter. Or you can become a 2nd amendment person.

Companies are trying to maximize their own profits. If they could charge international customers more, they would do so regardless of what Americans are paying. The relationship doesn't exist.

To anybody curious why he isn't big, you still need the exercise to gain any noticeable amount of muscle

Damn it, I knew I forgot something.

Making the German state officially state that this is Nazi imagery would be a worthwhile win lol.

To some extent, political parties are naturally occuring . The group dynamics of a legislative body will naturally result in groups forming around specific issues and even philosophies. But there is definitely a strong argument to be made that we've made them far too official, and far too entrenched.