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erronis

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Mon Jan 13, 2025, 11:35 AM Jan 13

WWVD: What Would Vladimir Do? -- Tom Sullivan

https://digbysblog.net/2025/01/13/wwvd-what-would-vladimir-do/

What-iffing Trump troops in the streets

D.C. National Guard Military Police, Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C. on June 2, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Revé Van Croft, 715th PAD)

Donald Trump talks tough about deploying troops in the streets. Why? For the same reason he muses about “acquiring” Greenland and the Panama Canal.

Trump, Alex Shepard believes, “is driven almost entirely by his desire to appear strong—or, more to the point, his fear of looking weak. This is why he picks senseless fights with smaller allies while avoiding brawls with the strongmen he so greatly admires.”

Yes, Greenland may have significant resources, but as we pointed out last week, that’s not really why Trump wants it. That’s about Trump’s obsession with size (The New Republic):

As is almost always the case with Trump, though, the cleanest and perhaps most persuasive explanation is the simplest and dumbest: The territory, like Canada, looks really, really big on the commonly used (and widely distorted) Mercator projection. Adding it would be a huge ego boost for a man who, hours after planes hit the Twin Towers, boasted that he now owned the tallest building in New York City. (He didn’t, but that’s beside the point.)



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WWVD: What Would Vladimir Do? -- Tom Sullivan (Original Post) erronis Jan 13 OP
Like all bullies, trump fears being exposed as the weakling he really is...nt Wounded Bear Jan 13 #1
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