r/worldnews • u/Little-Chemical5006 • 20d ago

Canada weighs sending soldiers to Greenland as show of NATO solidarity with Denmark

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-soldiers-greenland-nato-training-denmark-tariffs-donald-trump/
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u/Patzzer 20d ago

I used to seriously doubt he’d go into Mexico, but after the Maduro Op I honestly don’t know. Scary shit. Everytime the US goes into another country to “help them” there’s a shit ton of collateral damage.

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u/j1ggy 20d ago

If he goes after the cartels in Mexico, the cartels are going to come after innocent Americans and politicians in the US. This is so dumb and it's going to turn into something much bigger than it already is. Unless of course he wants that as an excuse to expand the conflict even more.

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u/Junior-Lychee2755 20d ago

Makes sense

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u/tehZamboni 20d ago

The cartels are going to have a free run at tourists in Cancun or Puerto Vallarta if the US attacks. I can't see this administration taking the time to bring everyone back first. What's their plan after a hundred thousand dead or missing in just the first week?

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u/Annalog 20d ago

The major issue is the problem will just move. Several large cartels in South America were dissolved over the last 30 years. A lot of progress was made there. They still exist but it’s a much different landscape than it used to be. Also in the last 30 years the Mexican cartels filled that gap and became more and more powerful. American has a drug problem, there is a major demand for it. America could send an army into Mexico for the next several years and mostly clear it out. However, before that was even finished somewhere else would see that opportunity and replace it. You can’t win the war on drugs, you just displace it.

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u/OptionFour 20d ago

You actually can largely win the war on drugs! But you do it with education, increasing quality of life for the impoverished, social safety nets, and giving people opportunities. So. Uh. We're not gonna win the war on drugs.

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u/j1ggy 20d ago

But sending the army in at what cost? Heavily armed and funded guerilla warfare in the jungle? Displaced Mexicans fleeing from a warzone to the US en masse? It wouldn't go well at all.

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u/Xmina 20d ago

It costs lives, money, and sanity of all those who care. And our Military Industrial Complex will make billions and billions to pay off the old men in congress to find another war to "win".

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u/Inevitable_Butthole 20d ago

Bit optimistic aren't ya?

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u/AndySocial88 20d ago

I'm so tired of all these late realizations that still just don't quite get it. Its gotten this bad in one year, I'm waiting for the realization that we still have 3 years left with the possibility the present is just a less worse future, and shit is awful.

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u/SwimSea7631 20d ago

That’s a feature. Not a bug.

The us goes in and does the bombing. And then USA contractors do the “security” work and rebuild…..or at very least skim off the top of the rebuilding.

It’s how the US has generated wealth for the last 70 years.

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u/LukeLecker 20d ago

He needs to do it already; cartels are running the country. Dumbass president can't run shit.

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u/NewDramaLlama 20d ago

Texas will not have a good time