this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2024
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.. But.. Why?
this entire cohort of decrepit American leadership is old enough to remember living through times when the USA was still adding states and doing territorial expansion, and at some level they think boom times will come back if they perform the same cargo cult rituals
You can't invest into the already conquered territory because it's all going out of the government coffers into the hands of billionaires. Real dying empire shit.
There's oil in them thar ice floes
From the article:
Oil and a claim to the artic. As they arctic melts, it will free up oil reserves.
to control more Arctic territory and deprive the EU from it.
He heard Iceland was green and Greenland was white.
The rest is history.
Global warming maybe idk
Sometimes I think he just says outrageous stuff on purpose to get attention
Read the article, it's quite short.
Or I could post and get to interact with my pals from Hexbear dot net
Based. Also I think what @[email protected] says is probably the most correct assumption. On top of that all the old ghouls that actually did realpolitik and had a grasp of the "great game" of geopolitics during the cold war are dead or dying and we now have a bunch of failsons high on their own supply running the show in both parties.
Kissinger knew about geopolitics, that's why he was such a monster, even he was saying the war in Ukraine had to stop.
But why not both, WHY NOT BOTHHHHHHHH
I'm surprised I read it myself I don't click on nothin that people tell me to