France is working with partners on a plan over how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday.

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      The US military must see Russia as an enemy. If Putin controls Trump, how could they accept Trump as the supreme commander? They must have heard the rumors, researched the relationship with the help of CIA and other agencies. They were recently all in a room with Trump on a military base. They had the opportunity to arrest him and nobody could have prevented it. They haven’t which suggest to me that the Putin connection is a distraction.

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          My primary argument is that the military still treats Russia as a main enemy. Donnie’s influence on those bases doesn’t matter.

          They haven’t closed the bases. If Russia starts an invasion they will defend. If Russia takes over their leadership they will defend.

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            They will defend their bases for sure. Putin won’t even attack those.

            But if there was an article 5 invoked today by say Poland, I highly doubt the USA would honour it.

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              Why? The US has fought to expand Nato to that point. Why give it up? Why support Ukraine if it doesn’t matter? All the loans will be gone if Russia wins.

              Poland is among the countries that should split from the EU according to Trump. That makes only sense with strong US support.

              The fear of abandonment is only there to justify the massive military spending. Nobody asks why we really need it.