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 strongor, 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, thats not really why Trump wants it. Thats about Trumps 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 didnt, but thats beside the point.)
Much, much more with good references.