Let's talk about 5 of your questions about Greenland and US force.... - Belle of the Ranch

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Well, howdy there Internet people. It's Belle again. So, today we're going to talk about five of your questions about Greenland.

Obviously, with everything going on with Trump looking at Greenland. There's been some questions and we're going to run through the most frequent. Just jumping right in. are the rumors that the joint chiefs won't draw up plans to take Greenland true?

There is definitely resistance, but it's also worth noting that those plans already exist. The US has plans to invade pretty much everywhere. They would just need to be refined. How effective the resistance to refining those plans will be is anybody's guess.

Would the US military follow through with an order to take Greenland? And if so, why wouldn't this count as an unlawful order? There is still a misunderstanding about what the duty to disobey means. It doesn't mean that Private Smith questions strategic level decisions. It means that if Trump orders him to LA or Portland, he shows even if he knows it's probably unlawful, probably doesn't cut it. It has to be manifestly unlawful. So it means once a judge blocks his deployment, he doesn't set foot outside of the lines established. That's exactly what happened.

Now, the much higher up brass could make the argument that on July 21st, 1949, Congress by ratifying the treaty already said not to attack them. I'm not sure that argument would hold or if the current brass would be willing to make it.

I was talking to a friend who started talking about two-tier operations and all kinds of cool stuff, saying that the exercise is a front, but then we got hit with the don't talk about politics thing. I didn't get to hear the end. What's a two-tier exercise?

If the US was worried that Allied country X was going to be invaded, they might hold a military exercise in the country. The opposition would be watching to see what the US brings in. But the funny thing is that they don't watch what leaves.

If hypothetically the Germans deployed a special team to train locals and 10% of the supplies for the exercise never left, they would have been able to train and preposition equipment to hold out until help arrived. Is that happening with the Greenland operation? No clue. But that sort of thing does happen.

What makes you think European countries would start meddling in other countries if we united and became a major power? We're not you. Nah, not yet. You're not. If you become a major power, your governments will play major power games and you'll be opposed, but they won't care. What makes me think that? Because European governments generally went along with the US playing its interventionist games. Nations don't have friends or morals. They have interests.

An EU transformed into a world player via a united military will pursue those interests. It's sad, but it's true. You might use soft power more or more intelligence operations than the US way, but the pursuit of interest will be there.

What do you think the best chance of stopping this is? Don't laugh. The polling. Trump might look at those polls and worry about the midterms. He knows he's unpopular. Taking Greenland by force is polling horribly. There's probably more people in support of ending public education. I'm not sure he'll risk a wildly unpopular military move.

Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.