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If Trump snatches Greenland, he will be waging war against NATO ally Denmark, of which Greenland has been a colony since 1721. Denmark of course doesn’t have the military might to contest such a takeover, even if the rest of NATO joined it. From Uriel Araujo at lewrockwell.com:

American threats against Greenland have forced Europe to rethink NATO’s most basic assumptions. Trump’s foreign policy combines global interventionism with neo-Monroeist ambitions closer to home. The result is an Atlantic Alliance facing erosion not from outside enemies, but from its own power center.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy has stated that “it would be the end of NATO” if the US were to annex Greenland, a remark prompted by President Donald Trump’s declaration that Washington would “do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not”.

Such alarmist-sounding warning has now suddenly become part of mainstream debate across Europe, as Germany pledges a larger Arctic role and senior officials in France, Poland and Denmark openly discuss contingency plans against a threat coming not from Moscow, but from within the Atlantic Alliance itself.

Trump’s renewed fixation on Greenland cannot be dismissed as yet another rhetorical excess. Jeremy Shapiro (Research Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations) has outlined how US pressure could win Greenland, by exploiting economic vulnerabilities, manipulating security arrangements, and even resorting to outright military intimidation. The scenario is no longer purely theoretical. Media outlets such as The Guardian, CNN, Al Jazeera, CNBC and the Financial Times have all reported, in recent days, on emergency consultations within NATO and the EU about how to respond if a NATO member were to threaten another with invasion.

For years, analysts across the ideological spectrum predicted that Trump, sometimes wrongly portrayed as a “pro-Russian” isolationist, would “kill” NATO by withdrawing from it. Both Atlanticists and some anti-imperialist commentators converged on the same conclusion, albeit with opposite moral judgments. Ironically enough, Trump is not threatening the future of NATO through retreat, but is risking its collapse through escalation so aggressively that it turns the Alliance’s logic inside out. As it turns out, an alliance premise on collective defense against external threats cannot survive if its leading power openly threatens to conquer allied territory.

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Statistics can’t hide the U.S.’s deep-rooted economic rot and malaise. From Be Water via zerohedge.com:

The 2008 Crisis Never Ended

Do you wish to know [when] that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that [commerce is conducted], not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—[then] you may know [that day has arrived]… 

—Francisco d’Anconia

No Country For Young Men

For most of America, the headlines trumpeting a “strong economy” and “stocks at record highs” land like a cruel joke. Michael W. Green’s recent series My Life Is A Lie attempted to quantify the economic devastation felt by the majority of the country these many years. This carnage has been sanctified by our technocrats—an Aztec priesthood invoking sacred economic statistics as celestial omens to justify the ritual sacrifice of society on the altars of GDP and the S&P 500.

Green, an investment industry insider, gave voice to the Forgotten Man:

Predictably, the priesthood declared heresy. Economists, journalists, thought leaders, think tanks, and other fellow travelers circled the wagons, tearing apart Green’s numbers, splitting hairs, and nitpicking his methodology.

That is a grave mistake.

Fiddling While Rome Burns

How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand a man who’s cold?

—One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

This sort of wonkish debate—whether the poverty line is $30k or $140k, whether CPI is 2% or 4%—exemplifies the scientism enabling our national dissolution: the religious belief that the statistical map is more real than the economic territory. Perhaps such effete technocratic sophistry could be tolerated—even indulged—were the body politic unified. But it is a fatal conceit in such a Balkanized powder keg of a nation.

Into this highly combustible environment, Green’s essays landed like an errant spark. If nothing else, Green forced a long-overdue reckoning with a reality that the credentialed class has steadfastly refused to acknowledge: that they themselves have spent decades drowning the American Dream in a flood of ruinous policy, even as they now insist that the water level is perfectly fine and that Americans are simply bad swimmers.

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Greenland has a lot to offer the U.S., and it’s there for the taking. That doesn’t mean it would be right for the U.S. to take it, but such considerations rarely, if ever, enter Trump’s mind. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:

Building more facilities there to complement Pituffik Space Base would further the US’ “Golden Dome” missile defense plans for obtaining a strategic edge over Russia while extracting more critical minerals from there would reduce dependence on vulnerable Chinese supply chains.

Trump recently reaffirmed his intent to annex Greenland on the pretext that this would supposedly preempt China or Russia from invading NATO member Denmark’s autonomous territory. Many believe that his main motivation, however, is to obtain control over what’s estimated to be the world’s second-largest reserve of critical minerals. The Daily Mail then reported that the US itself is actually planning on invading the world’s largest island, not China or Russia, who Denmark doesn’t consider to pose a threat.

Amidst this news, Bloomberg reported that “UK, Germany Talk NATO Forces in Greenland to Calm US Threat” ostensibly with the intent of deterring the US even though it’s extremely unlikely that they’d fight it over Greenland just like it was earlier assessed that France wouldn’t either. Greenland is basically Trump’s for the taking if he really wants it since neither NATO nor the locals can stop it, the latter of whom have no realistic way to block it from extracting resources or building more military bases there.

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h/t Malone News

h/t Malone News

Wars abroad lead to tyranny at home. From Cara Marianna at thefloutist.substack.com:

Tyranny behind masks.

‘There’s something happening here.’ (Photo, C.M.)

13 JANUARY—ICE is out of control, and the nation slides into a crisis from which it will not easily extricate itself. Countless videos show agents brutalizing people on city streets, behaving in ways altogether reminiscent of Germany’s Braunhemde—theparamilitary wing of the Nazi Party, so named for their brown shirts.

On Monday FOX News shared video of a man praying over an ICE agent and asking Jesus to protect him. This occurred as if staged—and almost certainly it was—at the scene of the murder of Renee Nicole Good, shot by an ICE agent on 7 January in the city of Minneapolis. Pundits on the same propaganda channel spent much of Monday discussing the legal consequences of calling an ICE agent a murderer.

The party of small government, supposed small-government, constitution-abiding and ever an advocate of states’ rights, now wants name-calling to be a prosecutable crime. “Hypocrisy” isn’t strong enough to describe these kinds of obscene contradictions. Just how fragile are these armed and masked ICE goons, I find myself wondering. Who are the snowflakes now?

More seriously, because little could be more serious at this moment, what we’re seeing on social media and our TV screens is evidence, more or less a record, of the American imperium sliding into ever-accelerating decline—at home and abroad—and taking the Constitution and ordinary citizens down with it.

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Highlighting political hypocrisy is like shooting fish in a barrel. Lately, Democrat hypocrisy has been an exceptionally easy target. From J.B. Shurk at americanthinker.com:

Democrats mourn ‘insurrection’ on January 6, engage in insurrection on January 7.

The ability of the Democrat Machine to rewrite its code at a moment’s notice is terrifying.  What it supported yesterday, it will denounce tomorrow when politically expedient.  Right now we’re seeing a perfect example in the way prominent Democrats are reacting to federal agents enforcing immigration law.  

On January 6, congressional Democrats choreographed an almost religious ritual (including a candlelit ceremony) during which they framed the D.C. protest of election fraud five years ago as an “insurrection” that resulted in the “murder” of police officers (reminder: only Trump supporters were killed in or near the Capitol on January 6, 2021).  On January 7, those same Democrats called an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent a “murderer” for defending his life from a deranged attacker using an automobile as a lethal weapon.  On the 6th, Democrats proclaimed themselves the “guardians” of law enforcement officers everywhere and accused Trump supporters of being “terrorists.”  On the 7th, Democrats proclaimed law enforcement officers “terrorists” and defended a domestic terrorist as a “guardian” of “undocumented” (read: illegal) immigrants.

Politicians aren’t known for faithfully adhering to guiding principles, but Democrats change principles quickly enough to give an average observer political whiplash.  

On January 7, Nancy Pelosi wrote, “The killing of an unarmed woman by a masked federal agent in Minneapolis is a moral outrage and a betrayal of American values.  There has been no justification offered — only deception and deflection from those in charge.  Accountability for this killing is not optional.”  This is the same Nancy Pelosi who has spent the last five years defending U.S. Capitol Police Captain Michael Byrd after he shot and killed unarmed J6 protester Ashli Babbitt without any prior warning.  If pictures from the time are accurate, Byrd was even wearing a COVID mask when he took Air Force veteran Babbitt’s life.

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How do you come to a “legal” agreement with a man who believes he is the law? From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.org:

Trump’s move on Venezuela does little to assure Moscow that any deal rooted in international law can be trusted.

To understand how the adage “the bigger you are, the harder you fall” applies to Britain – once a global power whose unique brand of diplomacy was considered the world’s best – consider the rank stupidity of a flippant comment from John Healey, which recently reminded us just how low Britain has sunk on the world stage.

Following the U.S. abduction of the Venezuelan president, the UK Defence Secretary remarked that, if given a choice of world leaders, he would kidnap Vladimir Putin. While one Russian commentator called it a “wet dream,” the remark also reveals that Britain is not only prepared to support Trump’s barbaric disregard for international law but is happy to entertain its own delusional fantasies of global havoc, if only it had the resources and nerve.

Healey’s absurd comment hardly reconciles with London’s claimed commitment to state sovereignty and international law. Worse, it sets dangerous precedents.

For Moscow, it signals a growing British preference for coercion over dialogue – confirming Russia’s worst suspicions about London’s laughable rhetoric on ending the war. Such remarks not only damage Britain’s standing as a credible global actor but also send the wrong message to the hundreds of Global South nations tired of being the only ones expected to respect international law. It is seldom understood by the average citizen that international law binds the world together and keeps economies functioning – from shipping and intellectual property to environmental protection and border integrity. If poorer nations in Africa and Asia abandon the so-called rules-based order, pandemonium would ensue, economies would stagnate, and the likelihood of conflict and famine would rise.

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There’s nothing like walking through the sylvan countryside, topping a scenic hill, and there, looming before you, is a giant AI data center. From John Peck at Common Dreams via childrenshealthdefense.org:

If taxpayers subsidize a massive data center, will the projected “market” for increasing algorithms actually come? Many within the AI industry don’t think so — and they’re suggesting we should have learned from the Enron scandal decades ago or the even worse sequel in the subprime mortgage-fueled financial meltdown.

One word — plastics. That was the golden grail that Dustin Hoffman learned about from some well-wishers in the movie “The Graduate.”

I remember watching the film as a farm kid and thinking about the updated version I was being told by my guidance counselors — one word: computers. We are now in the midst of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” and the latest mantra is: artificial intelligence (AI). Such free advice, though, could really be a costly warning in disguise.

Granted, there is a lot of poverty in the “richest” nation on Earth, and marginalized U.S. communities often have few choices for economic (mal) development. It becomes a twisted game of pick your own poison: supermax prison, toxic waste dump, ethanol facility, tar sands pipeline.

Now, AI data centers have been added to the limited menu. Someone recently shared a map of looming AI data centers across the world. It reminded me of how a tumor spreads and Edward Abbey’s quote that “growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

The fact that Big Data has targeted Rural America for its latest mastitis should be no surprise. We have lots of available land to grab, thanks to the legacy of settler colonialism and family-farm foreclosure. Back in August 2025, I remember driving past Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and watching bulldozers flattening over 800 acres along Highway 151 and my first hunch was: data center. Sure enough, the secretive $1 billion deal with Meta was finally revealed in a November 2025 press release.

Just north of Madison in the town of DeForest, Blackstone subsidiary QTS Realty Trust is aiming to build another $12 billion data center on close to 1,600 acres. And if we need to free up more land for AI, we quaint rural folks could just abandon growing real Christmas trees and force people to buy plastic ones instead, as one Fox News “expert” suggested over the holidays.

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Thinking Trump can do no wrong is as deranged as thinking he can do no right. From Leo Hohmann at leohohmann.substack.com:

I have never seen a period in my lifetime where deception and dueling narratives were quite so intense as they are today.

Whether it’s the protests in Iran or the civil unrest in the U.S., you can literally find two polar-opposite reports of what’s going on, with online videos to support their case. It has been much the same with the situation in Venezuela and before that, Gaza.

One person’s freedom fighter is another person’s terrorist and the parts are interchangeable.

The pressure to conform on either side of the dueling narratives is intensifying. That’s not by accident. The globalists fear a united America more than anything else. They love to drive wedges and hence all the pressure points are designed to create a bifurcated society that can’t agree on anything and becomes easily manipulated.

So those who refuse to be forced into either of the two “sides” will become the outcasts without a home. At least not an earthly home. Our home is in heaven and that’s where our allegiance lies. These folks are the real threats to the system because they judge right from wrong, constitutional from unconstitutional, according to sources outside of the left-right paradigm. As long as you operate from within that paradigm, you are a threat to no one. You are not at all dangerous to the advancing New World Order.

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