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SunSeeker

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Thu Jan 15, 2026, 04:20 AM Jan 15

The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland [View all]

I did not write this. It was written by Brent Molnar. It describes what dominoes will fall. It sounds really, REALLY bad.

🌍🔥 The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland…

If the United States follows through on the threat to invade Greenland, we need to be crystal clear about what happens the next morning. This is not a real estate transaction or a routine military exercise. It is the geopolitical equivalent of pulling the pin on a grenade in a crowded elevator. The moment American boots hit the ground in Nuuk to seize territory from a fellow NATO member, the world as we know it ends. The consequences will not be temporary sanctions or angry letters. They will be total, permanent, and devastating.

The first domino to fall is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization itself. NATO is built on the sacred promise of Article 5, that an attack on one is an attack on all. If the U.S. attacks Denmark, we are not just breaking the treaty; we are triggering it against ourselves. NATO dissolves instantly. The alliance that kept the peace in Europe for 75 years evaporates, leaving the continent to rearm and realign against the new aggressor across the Atlantic. We don't just lose an ally; we create a unified enemy.

The military repercussions will be swift and humiliating. Europe will immediately demand the closure of every U.S. military base on the continent. Ramstein in Germany, Aviano in Italy, Lakenheath in the UK, all gone. Our ability to project power into the Middle East and Africa vanishes overnight. We will be evicted from the very soil we helped liberate and defended for decades, forced to retreat to our own shores as a fortress nation, isolated and friendless.

Then comes the economic nuclear option. The European Union is the largest single market in the world, and they will weaponize it. Europe will likely move to call in U.S. debt and dump their dollar reserves, sending the value of our currency into a death spiral. The U.S. economy, which relies on the dollar being the global reserve currency, will collapse. Inflation will make the post-COVID spikes look like a rounding error. Your savings will be worthless before the ink dries on the invasion orders.

Corporate America will face an extinction event. U.S. companies will be expelled from the European market. Apple, Google, McDonald's, and Tesla will see their assets seized or their operations banned. Trillions of dollars in market capitalization will be incinerated in minutes. The stock market will not just crash; it will close. We are talking about the complete de-globalization of American industry, cutting us off from the wealthiest consumers on the planet.

The skies will go silent. European aviation authorities will almost certainly ground all Boeing jets and ban U.S. airlines from their airspace. Transatlantic travel will cease. If you are in Paris or Berlin, you are stuck there. The logistical arteries that feed our supply chains will be severed. We will be cut off from European medicine, machinery, and technology. We will be an island nation in the worst possible sense.

The cultural isolation will be just as stinging. The International Olympic Committee and FIFA will have no choice but to bar the United States from competition, just as they did with Russia. There will be no World Cup matches in New Jersey. There will be no Team USA in the Olympics. We will be treated as a pariah state, unwelcome on the global stage, forced to watch the world celebrate without us.

For individual Americans, the consequences will be personal and painful. Visa-free travel to Europe will end immediately. Americans currently living or working in Europe will lose their legal protections and residency status. They will become persona non grata, potentially facing deportation or internment. The "blue passport" that used to open every door will suddenly be a red flag at every border crossing.

This is the end of trust, and it does not reset. You cannot invade a democratic ally and then say "my bad" four years later. The psychological break will be permanent. Europe will realize that the United States is no longer a partner but a predator. They will build their own defense architecture, their own financial systems, and their own alliances that specifically exclude us. The West will continue, but the United States will no longer be part of it.

Invading Greenland is not a show of strength; it is an act of national suicide. We are trading our reputation, our economy, and our security for a frozen island and a handful of minerals we can't even process. The price of this real estate deal is everything we built over the last century. If we cross this line, there is no going back. We will be the lonely superpower, ruling over nothing but our own decline.

By Brent Molnar

#Greenland #NATO #Article5 #EconomicCollapse #Boeing #WorldCup #PariahState #Geopolitics #EndOfTheWest #VoiceOfReason

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Isn't that what Putin, miller, and Wannabe Hitler Cha Jan 15 #1
Putin probably gave him the idea. SunSeeker Jan 15 #4
Ys, I said that early on when he started Cha Jan 15 #5
Oh he'd love the scenario in the OP BannonsLiver Jan 15 #28
Oh yes, Putin wants all those baltic states and Poland, and NATO is standing in the way. SunSeeker Friday #30
That's exactly what they want. Haggard Celine Jan 15 #17
I want Traitor to Master Stroke and Cha Jan 15 #26
Damn the Republican Congress people for not removing him by impeachment and conviction, or whatever amendment raccoon Jan 15 #2
I think that procession of events is no more likely than the possibility that almost none of that happens AZJonnie Jan 15 #3
Germany, Canada and Sweden sending troops to defend Greenland does tell Trump something. SunSeeker Jan 15 #6
Fair enough. If they go through with it and a sizable contingent ends up there that *should* dissuade him! AZJonnie Jan 15 #23
France just sent troops there. Germany is sending naval ships there. Swede Jan 15 #19
Fair enough. If they go through with it and a sizable contingent ends up there that *should* dissuade him! AZJonnie Jan 15 #24
Good to know.. TY Swede! nt Cha Jan 15 #25
Jets from Boeing will not be grounded by a national decision Layzeebeaver Jan 15 #7
But a country can prohibit a commercial airline from using its airspace and airports. sinkingfeeling Jan 15 #8
That is correct. Layzeebeaver Jan 15 #15
If we attack Greenland, US airlines will be banned from European airspace. SunSeeker Jan 15 #10
That is highly likely Layzeebeaver Jan 15 #21
This assumes that Europe will lift a finger to do any thing. Irish_Dem Jan 15 #9
Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden sent troops to Greenland. SunSeeker Jan 15 #12
Biden had to twist their arms to get them off their duffs. Irish_Dem Jan 15 #13
They better show strength and back up their threats to suspend any support of bases or kick Tadpole Raisin Jan 15 #11
And Putin will be happy and America will be Botany Jan 15 #14
Most of this would never happen. But the threat of the debt is the biggest threat Callie1979 Jan 15 #16
And is anyone can do it, Trump can. Vinca Jan 15 #18
IMO - some yes, some not likely Cosmocat Jan 15 #20
Best comment I've seen in awhile Layzeebeaver Jan 15 #22
Yes creon Jan 15 #27
K&R UTUSN Jan 15 #29
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