Historically, it has worked more often than it hasn’t. The Big Lie of Vietnam is that it was The Rule rather than a glaring exception.
Most countries don’t mount a successful domestic defense. Most opposition groups don’t have a rival Superpower at their backs. Most insurgency and paramilitary efforts fail.
Meanwhile, the folks doing the imperialist terror campaign to seize control only ever profit, personally, from these military operations. And the public only ever gets fed some bullshit about how Americans are being greeted as liberators.
Sure, but then again, most superpowers don’t run out of ammo a month into a war, or telegraph a landgrab against their biggest, most reliable allies, yet here we are. But that’s also besides the point: if the US were to win a shooting war over Greenland, it’s all the more important for them to be the ones to start it.
If US business interests come under attack, the US military has a cause to intervene.
It has an excuse, which it may or may not act upon. But making that escalation is Trump’s mistake to make. That’s my point.
Historically, it has worked more often than it hasn’t. The Big Lie of Vietnam is that it was The Rule rather than a glaring exception.
Most countries don’t mount a successful domestic defense. Most opposition groups don’t have a rival Superpower at their backs. Most insurgency and paramilitary efforts fail.
Meanwhile, the folks doing the imperialist terror campaign to seize control only ever profit, personally, from these military operations. And the public only ever gets fed some bullshit about how Americans are being greeted as liberators.
Sure, but then again, most superpowers don’t run out of ammo a month into a war, or telegraph a landgrab against their biggest, most reliable allies, yet here we are. But that’s also besides the point: if the US were to win a shooting war over Greenland, it’s all the more important for them to be the ones to start it.