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Openly admitting the average Murcan has the intelligence and education of a child.

But yeah, you’re right. The people aren’t in control, and haven’t been for some time. One wouldn’t expect them to be well-educated.

Greenland should offer to sell it for one quadrillion dollars. Lend the US the money and catch them in a debt trap they can never escape.

Oh wait, I see I haven’t answered your question. The land has strategic value because it sits between Russia and North America. During the Cold War in particular, it was a good place to put early warning radar to detect nuclear launches. Now, for example, the waters around the island are patrolled for Russian submarines and stuff. And as the Arctic Ocean’s surface ice thaws, there are valuable trade routes there that different states want to control. And there might be some fancy minerals on the island itself.

@vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works is right. This isn’t about arctic security or deterrence at all. The US military already has unlimited access to the whole island and its airspace. The only reason Trump wants it to be a part of the US is because he is a manbaby and the grown-ups have all told him he can’t have it.

I would say this is not strictly news. It reads more like opinion, and is part of this new “This is Europe” newsletter. I don’t know why the Guardian put this article in their news section.

The murderer will definitely get away with it. There will be more ICE agents doing the same thing, emboldened by this incident and the lack of consequences. After the hundredth murder, people are definitely going to start shooting ICE agents on sight. The only way out now is for the administration to punish these agents, but like I said, this will definitely not happen.

After a while, it won’t even be about immigration any more. ICE will have become a symbol of Trump and his power.

How is this the most upvoted news? The US liberally just went to war with Venezuela.

Lest we forget the Michaels.

The joke’s on them. I’ve been gone from facebook for 10 years lol

In all seriousness, though, I doubt there is a single person alive who would condemn Russian election interference and excuse US election interference.

Well, if what you want is a little more screeching, then SCREEEEEEAAAAACH!

A person can’t regrow legs, but countries are famously not people.

Someone else would have been better, but Carney is the best Canada can manage with its dogshit voting system. At least he’s a servant of the state and not corrupt dictator wannabe like Trump. (Increasingly not wannabe)

I’m starting to think the only way to tackle climate change is for the people to start destroying fossil fuel infrastructure, starting with the highest volume targets that take the longest time to replace.

It’s the UAE—not Saudi Arabia.

The only question I have is why the US was contributing such a disproportionate amount in the first place. It was an accident waiting to happen. It’s not like the US has always been terribly concerned with democracy. If they were, they’d have a real voting system like Germany. I really don’t understand why Trump didn’t happen sooner.

Well, turns out something interesting did happen at COP30.

The real genocide isn’t Israel killing all of the Gazans, though that would work. Not that many people have actually died in Gaza, as a percentage of the total population. For that to work as a means of genocide, the number of dead Gazans would be in the millions. It is not.

The real genocide is Israel destroying their homes, then relocating the people, thus emptying the Gaza strip. That is the real plan. That is what is underway right now. The first step is already complete.

Incidentally, this is how Stalin stole Crimea from the Tatars. No, Crimea was not always ethnically Russian, as Putin claims.

Well, don’t expect a popular uprising any time soon. The KGB have totally depoliticised the Russian people. They believe they have no control over the fate of their country. If Russia fails, it will be because of economic failure at a basic level, where the country’s food, transportation, and energy systems all just stop working. And nobody in Russia will care, or do anything to stop it.

It’s interesting that the KGB has engineered a country uniquely capable of letting itself die.