So, having your president and first lady captured and deported is an option? Asking for a friend.

[JustKay]

[RockRaven]

1. No sarcasm. By the standards HE set, he (and Wiles, Miller, Hegseth, Rubio, etc)

should be turned over to foreign courts for prosecution. No way around it, that is HIS doctrine. Okay, let's do it then.

[Justice matters.]

23. If only The Hague had war ships and special ops...

I am quite certain they would oblige this very week.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Like I posted elsewhere..........

I’m waiting for France or England to come and rescue us…..

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. Yeah, if I were France, I think I would be giving the good ole raspberry.

Considering the average US resident's ideas about the French and their lives.

It amazes me because they did save us once. We should not ask them for anything. We practically bankrupted their country at the time.

I think they have done enough.

Besides, we don't need rescuing. We need to work up some guts is what we need to do.

When I lose control of my own vehicle, I don't let go of the wheel and start looking around for someone to take over.

[electric_blue68]

8. I had a lovely visit to Paris. And I get your point

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[OldBaldy1701E]

15. I want to get to Tours.

That is the 'ancestral' home for the family.

[electric_blue68]

17. I see it's south west of Paris...

I saved for 2 US trips by bus in my late 20's. One eventually across to San Francisco with a major stop in Arizona to meet up w a friend, along the way for 2 weeks. The next one up to South Dakota for an event, Denver to visit a cousin, and back to Arizona Navajo & Hopi Nations my friend, and I visited the year before.

My trip to Paris was part of totally surprise gift vacation to a little village in Western Switzerland where one of my uncles and aunts lived. They moved to Switzerland for his job decades earlier.

I was there for 3 weeks to make art with her in her incredible studio!
I mentioned in my emailing her previously wanting to take a day trip by train to Paris. Instead she took me and one of my cousins to Paris for 4 days!

[yellow dahlia]

21. Well said.

[popsdenver]

11. There is no way

that NATO countries, in their entirety, stand any chance against the U.S. Republican Party and Putin, and throw in China, Belarus, Israel, and NKorea.......

Trump chose to announce his actions in Venezuela on Fox News first. He did not inform The Senate, the House, The Supreme Court, nor did he inform any of the entire Republican mass media before he announced on Fox........

He is definitely aiming to establish Fox News, as the U.S. Gov't controlled State News, just like PRAVDA is in Russia.
All the Republican owned/operated "Media" is already beginning to switch to Entertainment, rather than "News".......

The Republicans in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, along with the U.S. Supreme Court Republican Justices are so stupid, they haven't realized that there is NO Legislative Branch, and NO Judicial Branch of government in a dictatorship/tyranny.......
And, despite those three groups conspiring/enabling to put the Republicans and Trump in power and keeping the Republicans and Trump in power, at all costs, Trump, Republicans, 2025, etc......will kick them to the curb as no longer of use to the new dictatorship........
With what is happening, the Republicans and Trump, have already gained command and allegiance of the U.S. Military............

[twodogsbarking]

3. On deck is Greenland.

Bernie gloves will be handed to the troops.

[Bev54]

5. He will attempt to take Greenland with money, undermining their government. he doesn't

really want a war with Europe, which is what that would be. Here is a good video on the politics and dynamics and how Trump's good billionaire friends, the Lauders are a big part of this.

[popsdenver]

12. Not really

Putin desperately wants/needs Canada, Greenland, Iceland and Alaska for Russia's northern trade ship passage route. And Putin sees his lap poodle Trump as a way to get them.......That Northern passage would cut tens of thousands of miles off current & established ocean trade routes. With the amount of melting arctic ice, Putin is already building massive, Heavy Duty Nuclear powered ice breakers.......

There is also an un-fathomable amount of oil and natural resources in those vast territorial expanses, and under the ocean floor, all for Russia's taking with overwhelming help from Trump..........

And the Republicans and Trump are increasingly succeeding at moving EPSTEIN to the back pages...........an exposing of the President, and many high ranking Republican Politicians, and Republican Oligarchs, exposed as organized child rapists could easily end the Republican Party.....

[Bev54]

13. I know very well what the Northwest passage means to the likes of Russia, China and the US and others

Being Canadian we know it is our territory with Greenland on one side and us on the other and none of this is new to us. The US has tried before to claim the NW passage, many years ago. We finally have our government locked in to realize we need to look after our territory ourselves. I am not going to say Trump will not try something militarily but I am doubtful, because we have a lot more friends than Venezuela and Russia, and more than the US right now.

[popsdenver]

19. My biggest mistake

was not coming to Canada in 67', I had my car loaded with all my possessions and was in hopes they would have me......
I didn't have much money and thought what if I am not allowed to work up there in Canada......

Keep up the good work, everyone down here is with you, except all the MAGAot Trumphumpers.......

[Bev54]

20. Your best bet would have been trying to escape the draft from the Vietnam war.

We welcomed US draft dodgers and I worked with one who came to BC and got a job with the Bank. Even when given amnesty he and his wife chose to stay, as did others. They thought they were coming to wilderness of BC and were surprised that we were civilized and modern. He made me laugh.

[popsdenver]

22. The draft

was exactly the reason my car was all packed, wish I had known you were kind to people trying to evade the draft.

It was right at the time, when McNamara decided he needed an additional 25,000? 250,000? draftees for the Tet Offensive coming in a couple of short months.......
Wiki explains what happened, those drafted at that time were called "McNamer's Morons"........He lowered the minimum IQ requirement, and told recruiters to go after the Black population. Interestingly, blacks compose 12% of the U.S. population, and black soldiers killed in Viet Nam were 18% of the total......

I gotta tell you, if I wasn't old, and didn't have kids and Grandkids, I would have come up anyway in 2000 when Cheney/Rumsfeld got the U.S. Supreme Court to corruptly and illegally throw the election to brain addled WBush......

Hang in there, you are the only nation creaming the Republicans at every turn.......The Kentucky liquor industry is crashing, and most of all, Boeing is suffering big time due to the Trump Aluminum Tariffs, and Canada has very successfully re-directed their aluminum shipments to AirBus, leaving Boeing out in the cold........

[Shipwack]

7. Perhaps....

I had actually forgotten about his obsession with them. Maybe he will be emboldened by this, if he doesn’t get pushback.

I’m thinking he won’t. I think the oil companies are quite happy with regaining the Venezuelan oil fields.

On the other hand, Mexico is a lot closer…

[Bev54]

14. It is not oil in Greenland that he wants, but precious metals and minerals, same

in Canada but we also have oil and water. Wait till someone tells him they have just discovered an even more massive deposit of Lithium in James Bay area of Quebec, than originally thought.

We are not panicking about a US invasion but we are standing on guard.

[OldBaldy1701E]

16. Stand tall and defiant! (n/t)

[mchill]

6. For the same reason our billionaires

Capitulated, no other democratic country will save us.

[3825-87867]

9. Go fund me?

Interested?
England?
Germany?
Europe?
China?

[Marcuse]

10. Extracted - not deported. Russia, if you're listening.....

So, having your president and first lady captured and deported is an option? Asking for a friend.

[WarGamer]

18. If you've got the military power to do it... I guess.

[StoolPigeon]

24. We should be so lucky

[returnee]

25. Apparently all you need is an indictment. n/t

[Kid Berwyn]

26. Your logic, it is good!

A hearty welcome to DU, JustKay!