Simpler explanation: Trump is a fascist, and wants more power. Having more territory means having more power.
Very sad Putin derangement syndrome in post.
Greenland is needed for US to attack Europe. He doesn’t want it to put Russian bomber/nuke bases there, he wants it out of Europe control.
Panama is obedient US slave for its sanctions on Russia. Panama is not threatening to remove sanctions before US and other colonies remove them. Russia does not do much transit through there. Pure propaganda to say US control of Panama canal is for Russian interests. It is to block Chinese use.
Russia is not interested in developing far away Canadian offshore resources. Like Greenland, there is no infrastructure there to bring them to customers/users. Russia has many decades of resources/development projects on its own sparsely populated Arctic waters. Explosive level of delusion to think Trump wants to give Russia access to “New USA” coast for projects.
War on Russia is extremely stupid and unwinnable. You don’t need to be paid by Putin to not understand the stupidity and evil. Much better to take over Canada, Europe and Americas for successful evil. The derangement level in this post deflects from the actual obvious evil of US empire, as if you morons should go fight Russia instead.
Oh I think we all got it! 😁
At least, the vast majority on the Fediverse and probably at some on Reddit too. Sadly, his followers will never manage to get it, even after something were to happen - the party line would spout some BS that would instantly become dogma.😓
I should have realized that whenever Trump gets hyper-focused on some niche issue that isn’t on the tiny list of stuff his brain comes up with by default, someone smarter than him told him about it and hyped him up about what he should do.
When I imagine Trump in six months ordering the US military to invade Greenland and take it over, a small hopeful thought occurs to me that maybe this will be the wake up call that the aware-of-reality people really needed. That it isn’t going to be okay if we just keep doing the system because it’s always taken care of us so far.
Maybe it will turn out to be a good thing, in the long run. Maybe not.
The best case scenario for these scenarios is that some other shiny toy distracts him, or rather than Putin for whatever reason decides that he wants something else more (which come to think of it, is not the best case anymore… at least not overall).
But while I may be too naively optimistic here, there’s a non-zero chance that the institutions left in the USA are too solid to allow for such a unilateral takeover? At which point this operation serves to pull those into the light as “problem areas” for the next push forward, plus whatever he backs down from serves to make the remaining crap he will do seem more reasonable by comparison - like a negotiation, The Art Of The Deal style? You gotta love that ratchet effect that conservatives always do… which somehow always manages to work on those who allow themselves to forget? 🤢🤮
Not to mention, the political instability and insecurity, the sheer chaos caused by the violent rhetoric alone is exactly what Putin wants, since it weakens the West. In his zero-sum view of the world, this means Russia benefits, but he doesn’t realize that Russia has directly benefited from a stable West for as long as he has been in power.
With Trump threatening Panama, Canada and Mexico and Musk threatening the UK and Germany, Putin must be very pleased. They’re diligently undermining Western alliances even before taking power.
