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Why is it always people claiming to think critically that can't follow A to B? You are working so hard to deny reality here.
by tokai 1y ago
Why is it always people claiming to think critically that can't follow A to B? You are working so hard to deny reality here.
- mlrtime 1y agoWhat reality exactly besides anxiety or fear? All day I see people trying to draw lines that don't happen. Criticize the words all day long, I agree. I'm talking specifically about Greenland.
- saubeidl 1y agoIf a guy says he's gonna stab you, are you going to try and prepare yourself or are you just going to be like "well it's just words, he hasn't stabbed me yet, I don't know why I should be worried?". You're arguing in bad faith.
- chrisco255 1y agoNobody said he's going to stab you. This is international politics and the stakes are higher than you can imagine, because hypersonic intercontinental Russian nuclear warheads are arrayed across the Arctic ocean from Greenland and Canada and pointed at North America. That's why NORAD has operations out of Greenland. That's why NATO exists. That's why you can't rule out "military action" over Greenland. Greenland can choose to be independent, but the U.S. won't allow them to host Russian nukes or Chinese nukes were it to fall to that as it did with Cuba in the 1960s.
- saubeidl 1y agoDo you know why Cuba went to the Soviet Union and asked for nukes? Because they needed deterrence after a failed US invasion attempt. Initially, Castro tried to be a good neighbor and even went on a US tour [0]. It was through American arrogance and aggressive attitudes that relations soured to the point where the Cubans thought they needed a deterrent. It seems you guys still haven't learned your lesson. [0] https://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/this-day-in-politics-april-15-1959-090037 https://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/this-day-in-politics-...