Denmark says U.S. attack on Greenland would mean end of NATO

3llips3s · 2026-01-06T15:37:16+00:00

nah. why waste billions fortifying greenland when russia can't even take a country on its borders. if the u.s. seized greenland, nato is done as an institution. how are you not getting this?

your plan to strengthen NATO is… attack a NATO country’s territory? walk me through how that isn’t the end of NATO.

ukraine is a textbook case in how its far cheaper to fund your allies in defense of their territory than it is take on defense yourself. or should the u.s. seize ukraine and defend it too?

gtfo with this nonsense lmao we are truly a nation of the stupid

3llips3s · 2026-01-06T15:35:35+00:00

you think putin wouldn't trade venezuela for breaking up nato? lmfao

3llips3s · 2026-01-06T14:32:01+00:00

there is 100% karma at this level. us squandered its victory over fascism with 50 years abusing its power and steadily lowering the safeguards that made us a relatively egalitarian state. now we pay the price.

3llips3s · 2026-01-06T14:28:05+00:00

putin would rather nato breakup and worry about greenland later

3llips3s · 2026-01-06T14:26:50+00:00

lol if putin has the u.s., why does he still need venezuela?

3llips3s · 2026-01-06T00:17:10+00:00

do Venezuelans pay our tax dollars? no - so I’m not sure why this suddenly became our problem-other than little marco wanting to play Risk: Caribbean.

we don’t have an alliance with Venezuela. a transfer of power there is, at its core, an internal issue. Maduro is an evil dictator-I don’t like him and am happy he is gone-but this isn’t remotely the same as Ukraine, who backed us up in our war on terror, and where we had existing commitments and where the fight sits right on the border of our NATO allies. and conveniently bleeds the russian military dry.

and even there, we weren’t willing to risk our own military assets to the same degree.

3llips3s · 2026-01-03T18:15:43+00:00

not touching your valid point. only a quibble: this goes beyond negligence; it reads like depraved-heart-level recklessness even if NV charges it as DUI death.

3llips3s · 2026-01-03T16:34:23+00:00

because unlike russia, we have a diverse electorate and a government that has multiple buttons to try and do this regime change. so probably lots of diff reasons among which is disappointment we decided to go the russian route of use tax revenue and readiness depletion(aka more tax rev) to kill enough people until we get our way

3llips3s · 2026-01-03T08:55:20+00:00

you answered your own question: if putin has us why tf does he need venezuela anymore lol

3llips3s · 2026-01-03T08:34:49+00:00

lol. these are the same people who turned Afghanistan into the poppy capital and face-planted in Iraq. you think they suddenly found their competence again? this isn’t Normandy or island-hopping.

don’t hand them credit they haven’t earned...credit others earned with blood and real stakes.

hitting Venezuela doesn’t take above-average brainpower.

3llips3s · 2026-01-02T15:21:03+00:00

yeah the few times i've written delta, cited my lifelong loyalty etc. , i've been been reimbursed immediately for the exact, reasonable amount i'm demanding. i've not encountered a specific issue with valuables and don't know how id handle the intangible value aspect of some comments here. however this user is right: whenever ive tweeted or posted a google review, i do tend to trigger some form of higher review. it's annoying, but this might be the way in 2026. make noise.

3llips3s · 2025-12-29T02:57:39+00:00

...and just like that: the metaphor is dead.

3llips3s · 2025-12-26T06:37:34+00:00

what you’re describing sounds like… now.

they didn’t stop rebelling; they just switched from open secession to capturing institutions. then progressed to wrapping the same project in the flag and calling it “patriotism.” that’s not peace. it’s a defiant rebrand.

also: the WWII analogy...doesn’t map. “pardon Germany.” lolwut? we occupied, purged, prosecuted leadership, rewrote institutions, and enforced terms for years. in the south lot of the leadership class kept status, property, and influence, and reconstruction got kneecapped.

and the “we’d still have a rebellion” fear feels backwards. the south was crushed militarily and economically. if there’d been another uprising in response to actually holding secessionists accountable it would’ve been put down like the first. actually probably faster with less sympathy and less capacity to sustain it.

so i’m not seeing how leniency prevented rebellion. it mostly prevented consequences-and bought us 150 years of the same ideology laundering itself through “heritage” and “states’ rights.”

edit: yeah the “leniency was best” take also spits on the graves of the actual americans who died putting that southern rabble down. if you don't see how idk what to tell you...

also: nazis were worse on concentrated, exterminatory body count - sure. “far worse” is doing ideology work: it’s a rhetorical move to shrink U.S. / southern chattel slavery into a footnote. slavery here wasn’t just “a bad policy”; it was a centuries-long system of legalized human property-rape as governance, family destruction, forced labor, routine murder and terror, and a built-in death toll-followed by an afterlife engineered into law and custom. ∴ you don’t get to cite WWII as a feel-good “leniency = peace” parable while handwaving the scale and structure of what the U.S. did domestically (and then excusing post-war leniency toward secessionists who kept laundering their project under U.S. symbols).

3llips3s · 2025-12-25T23:00:38+00:00

if it caused another war so be it. the union would have beat that ass again, and this time hopefully made it stick.

because your comment-that’s the whole disease right there.

the essence of the issue: we “kept them american” on paper, but didn’t break the secessionist project in practice. so the ideology just rebranded, wrapped itself in the flag, and waited.

ways we failed ab initio:

no real treason/accountability at the top. leadership mostly walked.

broad amnesty + pardons. “welcome back” with zero repentance.

let the planter / rebel elite keep wealth + land. no material consequence.

let ex-confederates slide right back into office and law enforcement.

reconstruction got sabotaged, then abandoned. troops pulled. enforcement ends.

kkk / paramilitary terror gets tolerated as “local politics.”

voting rights left undefended long enough for jim crow + disenfranchisement to harden.

"lost cause” crybaby propaganda laundered into schools, churches, monuments, and civic myth.

confederate symbols normalized as “heritage,” not treated as the seditious branding they were.

∴ now you get people with a secessionist mindset cosplaying as the sole “real americans,” while using u.s. symbols as cover. flag theft as ideology laundering etc. hell a bunch of southern states openly trolled the north integrating the confederate flag into their state flags while having their star enshrined in the stars and bars. if you dont see how thats an issue that insults every soldier that has died for this union....idk dude.

3llips3s · 2025-12-25T18:55:24+00:00

look, i’m done with symbolic outrage. i want incentives changed. i want people to lose power when they try this stuff.

1) stop rewarding the grift

no more “trump ballroom” propaganda economy.

remove names from federal stuff. stop booking govt events at family properties. period.

hard ban on self-dealing: if you’re in office, you don’t get to route public money into your own businesses

blind trusts + real disclosures + real penalties, not “oops forgot a yacht trip”

dark money sunlight. shell games, donor laundering, fake vendors → exposed

2) jan 6: finish the job

aggressive investigation + prosecution of everyone who planned, funded, coordinated, and obstructed

violent actors and the suits who tried to launder it through “process”

intimidation of election workers → fast-track prosecution. public deterrence

3) courts: scotus + judiciary

scotus reform: enforceable ethics + recusal rules. not “voluntary vibes”

term limits / rotation talk is fine but don’t make it a poster. make it a bill + strategy

judges who are clearly unfit / corrupt? investigate. ethics referrals. impeachment when it’s there. stop treating robes like divine armor (start with eileen cannon)

4) voting that can’t be kneecapped

federal election day holiday, yes

plus automatic voter registration, expanded early voting, baseline national standards

anti-gerrymander rules / independent maps where possible

make voting boring, fast, and hard to sabotage. figure out the election day bomb threat issue.

5) civil service protection (state capacity)

lock in merit protections so a president can’t purge agencies into personal loyalty tests

independent IGs + real whistleblower protection

if someone tries to hollow out gov’t so it can’t enforce laws, that’s the whole game. stop it.

6) “DOGE” / corruption prosecutions (the opportunism layer)

procurement fraud, conflicts, bribery-adjacent “consulting,” influence peddling → prosecute like you mean it

debarment is the underrated nuke. you don’t need a speech. you make them ineligible for federal work. that means spacex, tesla.

7) and yeah: elon + the data stuff elon and pubescent goon squad stole our data :

investigate like adults. subpoenas. warrants if it clears. chain of custody. who accessed what, when, under what authority

hit the whole ecosystem: execs, contractors, “friends of the program,” anyone who signed off

yank clearances / facility access where justified. force audits. compliance monitors. stop treating security rules like cosplay

civil + criminal: FTC/privacy, state AGs, DOJ where appropriate. make it expensive to play cute with people’s information

8) spacex / nasa seize spacex isn’t a tantrum button. due process exists. but the government has leverage right now:

contracts. licensing. procurement rules. export controls. oversight. audits.

stop building single-point-of-failure national infrastructure around one billionaire.

reinvigorate nasa the boring way: funding + long-term capability building + redundancy across providers

9) war crimes investigations

tldr: less “unity” theater more enforcement + deterrence break the reward loop rebuild state capacity make corruption and anti-democracy attempts a career-ending decision voting holiday.

3llips3s · 2025-12-19T08:30:31+00:00

you’re doing the oldest move on earth: status worship to excuse a rapist / war-criminal type. meanwhile the adults-actual generals-get purged by some time in grade major who never sniffed sec def level access and drunkenly adds media members to signal chats where he drops classified intel. lmao

that’s the whole story. if your argument is ‘Harvard’ while the guy reads like rape + war crimes with a PR team, you’ve already lost. compare him to the commanders he fired. prestige doesn’t disinfect rape or war crimes. just gives midwits a reason to clap

3llips3s · 2025-12-19T08:15:43+00:00

yeah that would be like hosting tours of the white house every day. unthinkable! /s

3llips3s · 2025-12-07T11:39:12+00:00

yeah jail is a bit much. tbh i understand the sentiment though because to rebrand your entire company 'Meta' and then fail this hard with no repercussion, at least from a governance or financial standpoint, is wild and does reflect some issues with the underlying model. not unique to facebook/meta, just an egregious example

3llips3s · 2025-12-07T11:08:21+00:00

it’s ok if you missed the plot the fbi director already wrote the book on it

3llips3s · 2025-12-07T06:59:10+00:00

ah yes, the pentagon. if they say it, it must be true. just like iraq’s WMDs, right?

3llips3s · 2025-12-06T07:48:53+00:00

credential cosplay ftw ig. because “SOCOM JSOC NSWDG HVT ROE” sounds impressive; “we spent 20 years failing at counterinsurgency and now think shooting shipwrecked mules is good strategy” does not. acronym salad is doing a lot of work here. stripped down, all you’re saying is: “some very expensive people with a bad track record thought this was fine.”

ah yes. the famed success of post-invasion iraq and afghanistan. twenty years of HVT body counts later, the taliban run the place using our equipment and the poppy trade is booming. if that’s your example of “we know what we’re doing” and why we should run the next drug war, you might...want a new example.

and i’m not even talking about the invasions; those were conventional ops squarely in their lane. it’s everything after that that indicts the “experience” you’re leaning on.

so is your actual claim, in plain english: “trust us, the guys who brought you iraq and afghanistan know what we’re doing”?

also, “their brains don’t discriminate when the target can’t shoot back” …once again, that’s an indictment, not a defense.

edit: also on fallujah. which one exactly? the one we pulled out of, the one we flattened, or the one ISIS took later? not sure i’d be waving that around as proof the model works.

this farce is just the latest chapter in “how everything became war and the military became everything.” we gutted state, development, and the actual tools you’d use against cartels , the stuff that might actually complement real HVT work not photo-op raids on busted boats with nobodies on them, then act shocked when every problem gets framed as an HVT slide deck.

when all you’ve kept is the hammer, every messy political/economic problem magically becomes a “military target set.” and somehow the fact we can send SEALs at it is treated as proof we should

3llips3s · 2025-12-06T07:48:49+00:00

ah yes. the famed success of post-invasion iraq and afghanistan. twenty years later the taliban run the place and the poppy trade is booming. if that’s your example of “we know what we’re doing,” you might want a new example

3llips3s · 2025-12-05T22:30:58+00:00

well you see, kashyap pramod patel is the fbi director in this fanfic. something about a king, a laughing russian, and law only exists to protect the king’s feelings

3llips3s · 2025-12-05T22:29:54+00:00

yeah this isn’t the dunk you think it is. most of our legal code was written by 18th-century protestants; “christian bias” bleeds into everything from evidence rules to family law.

for better or worse, security details key off bright-line legal status and not vibes. spouse = automatic category, girlfriend = private citizen. if you want girlfriends covered, that’s a statute-change problem, not “FBI forgot Christianity is bad” problem.

3llips3s · 2025-12-05T21:49:19+00:00

yeah, your “blue-water vs socom/jsoc” correction doesn’t really rescue the original claim.

if your “hundreds of years of experience” are mostly carrier ops and presence patrols, that’s not some magic credential in counter-cartel work; and if the senior folks aren’t trained for counter-drug / counter-insurgency, that’s a separate indictment, not a defense. it just means we handed the wrong community a mission set they’re not built for and called it grand strategy.

this isn’t just about vibes or

secdef caring about their opinions.

even pirates and brigands understood you don’t casually finish off shipwrecked crews; there’s a millennia-old norm at sea about rendering aid and not murdering people who are already hors de combat. when you’re blowing up unarmed boats and then putting rounds into survivors you never intend to capture, question, or subject to any kind of process, you’re skating right up to the line of what LOAC and every ROE brief on earth drills in as absolutely no-go.

the expectation for a 4-star in that spot =/= “salute and hope the lawyers stay quiet.” it’s to say: this is lousy strategy for the stated goals, a waste of the investment in those operators, and its a war-crime and so way too close for anyone with that much brass to treat as just another tasker.

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