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Ohioboy

(3,615 posts)
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 05:02 PM Jan 2025

Am I being over dramatic, or...

Is it possible that all this Trump talk about Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland could result in normalizing the idea that invading our neighbors is an option?

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multigraincracker

(35,407 posts)
1. Best part is that we will need to bring back the draft.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 05:04 PM
Jan 2025

Which would create millions of new jobs for foot doctors to write all of those deferments.

win win.

Irish_Dem

(67,813 posts)
6. Exactly. We will be as bad as Putin and Xi.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 05:18 PM
Jan 2025

And Xi can go ahead and take Taiwan in the name of national security.

Mike 03

(18,329 posts)
7. 100% I hope this point is dawning on
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 05:41 PM
Jan 2025

most Americans--it is crucial that some prominent voices in legacy news media make this point.

Irish_Dem

(67,813 posts)
9. Most Americans will be easily convinced US national security demands invasion of other countries.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 05:46 PM
Jan 2025

Americans thought invading Iraq was wonderful.
Only a few of us objected.

And then it is an easy matter to convince Americans Russia has a right to Ukraine
and China to Taiwan.

rurallib

(63,589 posts)
5. Better chance, I think, that all that is a diversion
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 05:12 PM
Jan 2025

coming up that he really wants to hide in plain sight as he does it.

My bet is that it will have to do with cyber currency.

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Efilroft Sul

(3,951 posts)
10. No, you're not.
Wed Jan 8, 2025, 05:52 PM
Jan 2025

Another interesting observation: All the pro-Putin MAGA fanboys who were sooooo concerned that Biden would drag America into World War III over Ukraine, and who also disavowed any support for the neocons of the Bush/Cheney era, are now getting their Manifest Destiny on over us possibly invading our neighbors. Of course, these bootlickers have been punching down all their lives, so their recent volte face tracks.

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