Poor old Alon: Another naive sprouting from his wretched garden of anti Trump cacti. ( Thank our “Christian” God it’s down to one page today).

You would think enough problems are brewing in his own back yard of NY, with the election of the Muslim vandal Mamdani, but apparently not; he’s not up to the horrors of that reality yet.

Trump is on the ball opposing the Leftist Nords sitting strategically on the Russian border. Trusting them with security would be like setting up Albanese in Finland to guard against the Russians.

Go Uncle Donald!

Thanks diver dan. Yes it's interesting that the Woke Marxist's attack the man rather than his arguments. Paul Graham talks about this as being one of the lowest forms of argument in his "Hierarchy of disagreement"- idiots.

http://sproutsschools.com/grahams-hierarchy-of-disagreement/

I haven't seen President Trump say anything about attacking Denmark, but he is saying that the Danes can't defend it, and it will be much harder to take it back from China when it occupies Greenland and threatens Europe from a much more dangerous position. But I suppose there are a lot of traitors in the west and Europe that aren't arguing in good faith, we need to remove these traitors from positions of authority, and lock them up, and probably execute them for treason as a message to others that might act in a similar way

Canum Malem,

Invoking Paul Graham while doing the very thing he warns against is a strange choice.

Ben-Meir critiques Trump's actions and stated positions on Greenland: coercion of a NATO ally, refusal to rule out force, and treating sovereign territory as an asset to be taken if negotiations fail. That is argument-level criticism, not an attack on Trump's character.

By contrast, your comment:

- labels critics "Woke Marxists",
- alleges unnamed "traitors",
- and ends by advocating imprisonment and execution for dissent.

That isn't just low on Graham's hierarchy. It abandons argument altogether.

As for the actual substance of your comment, no one is claiming China currently occupies Greenland. The point is that NATO already provides a legal, cooperative framework for Arctic security, one Denmark actively supports, including expanded US basing. Annexation is not a security necessity, it's a rupture of alliance norms.

Threatening allies does not strengthen NATO. It undermines it.

If you want to defend Trump's Greenland position, do so by engaging with the legal, strategic, and alliance arguments actually being made. Calling critics traitors and fantasising about executions is not "arguing in good faith". It's conceding the argument by replacing it with intimidation.

President Trump seems to be saying that it is very hard to defend a place on military alone, there is also the economic battle. In recent history Europe appears have been willing to have the US shoulder the burden of the defense of Europe. NATO has been funded mainly through the US. And then there are the ones that try to undermine stability by incessant legalism such as the Philistines. Lawyers seemingly forget that in many contexts the system much be geared so that action is favoured over inaction. Sometimes I like to go back to Aristotle's comment on government by written law and the context under which this is superior, rather than blindly accepting this principle, possibly under the principle of self preservation.

President Trump is subtly implying perhaps, that the US's support of Europe, when they should be supporting themselves, is hurting the most vulnerable in the US. When Europe cries poor in the corridors of power, real people in the US cry in silence.

There are groups in the US such as Woke Marxist's that perhaps want to make the US ineffective and the US poor to hate it. As they say Marxist's don't love the poor they hate the rich

Canem Malum

How is it even possible to “ keep the bastards honest”,

Trump cuts the rug of Rules Based Order out from under the over comfortable allies; they are not coping with him.

Trumps rules are economic in priority. His rush to embrace the wealthy Arabs in the ME, defy political logic. Israel is in serious trouble because of it, but must now pretend happiness.
Not good!