President Donald Trump has said the U.S. will revisit its stance on Greenland in the coming weeks.
Asked if he expected to take action on the territory, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday: “Let’s talk about Venezuela, Russia, Ukraine. We’ll worry about Greenland in about two months. Let’s talk about Greenland in 20 days.”
He added: “We need Greenland from a national security situation. It’s so strategic.”
My calculation is that China will step in to bail Russia out, as that would sediment Russia as a true vassal to China, and maybe even take some territories from Russia in the process.
I’d argue that having a desperate population is good for the war machine, as the military class are then the only subset of the population that enjoy some sort of comfort (this is analogous to how military families enjoyed certain privileges even as Japan was starving at the end of World War 2).
I really wish I’m wrong