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(54,436 posts)you'll have Trump hysterically intoning, "IT WASN'T MY FAULT! IT WASN'T MY FAULT!"
BidenRocks
(2,854 posts)Remember the fights over toilet paper?
This will be worse.
KS Toronado
(23,184 posts)If we invade Greenland, all U.S. service members stationed in NATO countries automatically become
POWs and all the American made tanks & airplanes will be used against us. Guys at the Pentagon better
learn how to refuse illegal orders.
Duncanpup
(15,628 posts)Delphinus
(12,483 posts)I did not know this. Are these chucklefucks making any plans to bring our service members home? I've been working a lot lately and can't keep up with all the news, but I remember some department telling Americans to get out of Venezuela.
KS Toronado
(23,184 posts)I doubt it, remember this is something that would likely happen if we invade a NATO Ally. Bringing all our
troops and weapons home would raise giant red flags in Europe.
That is what will happen
democrank
(12,231 posts)They dont understand how this chest-beating weakens our country or how this bullying behavior is a sign of weakness not strength. My guess is that there are some world leaders out there who could teach these two (and others) a lesson about different kinds of power.
CapnSteve
(393 posts)a dying 79 year old pedophile. Fuck him and everyone who enables him.
Delphinus
(12,483 posts)than a pedophile if what some stories that are coming out now are saying. And yes, fuck him and everyone who enables him.
Delphinus
(12,483 posts)This was spot on! Holy cow.
hatrack
(64,349 posts)1. MSC - market share 20.2%, based in Switzerland
2. Maersk - market share 14.3%, based in Denmark
3. CMA GCM - market share 12.7%, based in France
4. COSCO - market share 10.6%, based in China
5. Hapag - Lloyd - market share 7.4%, based in Germany
6. Ocean Network Express - market share 6.2%, based in Japan
7. Evergreen Marine - market share 5.7%, based in Taiwan
8. HMM - market share 2.9%, based in South Korea
9. Zim Integrated - market share 2.5%, based in Israel
10. Yang Ming - market share 2.2%, based in Taiwan
So, we "liberate" Greenland, and even if companies based in NATO member nations are the only ones of the top ten here to end shipping to and from American ports, that's 1,699 container ships no longer serving the United States and its consumers.
Attacking Greenland - that is, attacking a fellow NATO member - is the very definition of force majeure, and under those conditions no carrier in the world would face legal entanglements from withdrawing its ships from American routes. In case you were wondering, these 10 companies represent 84.7% of global container ship capacity, and there is no American merchant marine capable of "picking up the slack".
So yeah, along with national economic collapse, let's contemplate a world of Targets, Wal-Marts and Amazon Fulfillment Centers in their new role as bat, bird and coyote habitats.
https://blog.shipsgo.com/top-shipping-carriers/
mwmisses4289
(3,383 posts)but also the treasury thing. The caveat with the treasury thing is the potential for this to cause not only a us depression, but a world wide one.
I have never figured out why those who are so gung ho on sending others to fight are so reluctant to go fight themselves.