by nebula8804 | 2026-01-20 05:21:03+00:00
>But we're already off to a horrid 2026 between Venezuela and Minnesota, and even Jerome Powell. This isn't just big words anymore. Trump's shown he's willing to escalate to foreign intervention, shoot citizens in the street in broad daylight, and disrupt the core Dollar itself to fit his needs. I wouldn't rule out anything at this point.

For the record im not saying any of these things are good. As a millenial, I completely understand that what this idiot is doing is going to take the rest of the millennial lifespan to correct and hopefully improve things for the next generation. He has forced us to become a transitional generation, but at the same time we need to take these things one at a time and understand what is bluster and what is action.

Clearly, the Venezuela raid is action and it's set into motion some dire consequences, but if you look at it from 50,000 feet it is not the same thing as the Greenland situation. The Greenland situation has been all fluster. There hasn't even been movements on the American side in terms of troop movements. Lets look at this article and its concept of "strategic deception"

To treat this as real preparation for Greenland, I would argue that we should see at least some of the following: overseas deployment authorities invoked, War Powers legal movement, classified funding reprogramming, NATO ally notifications or deconfliction, airlift tasking orders toward the North Atlantic, pre-positioning of sustainment or maritime assets(I'd argue most important)

What we have:

1. A unnamed CSIS analyst offering a conceptual possibility

2. no documents, orders, or timelines

3. no corroboration from Reuters/AP (Important)

This article is definitely in the bluster category.

On the EU side they are obviously not in support of what America wants, and the most they have done is place a small number of troops and give a lot of rhetorical pushback.

The thing in Minnesota, again, was very terrible, and it remains to be seen if it expands into full‑on martial law. But martial law is the actual action. That's the door that leads to real consequences.

We have to separate the action from the bluster. Ruling out anything is just falling into the media narrative.

>We're sadly in a post truth era. You don't change the minds of people like that with obvious, verifiable facts. I don't know what to do with them. I feel it takes less energy to focus efforts on those who can still be reasoned with than to convert the devout.

I'm in complete agreement with you. My thinking is that I think back to a saying discussed at the end of Chernobyl: it was a disaster that was partly a response to hiding the truth. You cannot avoid the truth, eventually that debt has to be paid, and many times it's paid in irreparable damage. When that debt is paid, all the bluster in the world, all the fake news, all the "alternative facts" can try to hold back the debt but it must be settled.

How do we translate that to the modern day? I suspect it's going to be a repeat of what happened during the George W. Bush era. When the economy finally crashed, all that pig‑headedness and honcho behavior that Bush supporters exhibited quietly disappeared. Many of them retreated into their caves for a while...at least until the United States elected a Black man and gave them a reason to come out and be hateful again.

Some were so devastated by reality finally bearing down on them that many abandoned the Republican Party and actually voted for Obama twice (only to be let down again) and now end up with either Bernie or Trump.