Friends, Merry Christmas! May the true spirit of the season, in which presumably President Trump excels BIGLY, be amongst you all. Lest ye forget, the biggest present you have ever received did not come under the tree...but it's okay to give and receive the occasional capitalistic bauble as well. It keeps the economy humming along!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: More power to ya in portraying our President in such a manner. "Shameless hyperbole" the "American" far left bleats in its sour subordination. No, that heartless overreach exercised against this good man by those "by any means necessary" incipient totalitarians to suppress his to them unbearable heresy more than fulfills that pejorative!
ReplyDeleteThis is an essentially Christian nation. In virtually every small town and on almost any few city blocks , one of the most substantial structures is one of Christian devotion. Christianity means willing cohabitation with any other religion, save any, ostensibly spiritual or disingenuously secular or any faction thereof which expresses purposeful hate for Christians and our forebears in Judaiism. This objective truth graces American civilization. Our President's unapologetic recognition of its vital role in our country's life is redeeming and upright.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Well, capitalist baubles beat marxist bumbles and crumbles any day. American capitalism's very centre is about to be reminded of that.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: President Trump's interest in possibly acquiring Greenland is back in the news.
ReplyDeleteI remember how in 1971 I think, a somewhat eccentric Danish politician named Mogens Glistrup ran for head of government there. He was quoted" we don't need an Army; all we need is a recording saying 'we surrender' in Russian". Actually though, what made use of such communication unnecessary was U.S. power and our willingness to use it. In the closing days of the European war the Brits beat the Red Army to Denmark by almost a matter of hours. But worn out Britain could not have stayed there or defended Denmark against hellhound Stalin.
Denmark owes its national life and the blessed peace it has enjoyed since 1945 to the U.S. Just sayin'. Greenland could become a strategic factor in our continued ability to do so. Our President sometimes improvidently thinks out loud and wears his heart on his sleeve but maybe its all part of the "art of the deal". One thing is for sure; if China's blue water Navy ever gets strong enough to move on Greenland, Denmark would not be able to stop it. NATO could but the U.S. is key to its power.
It makes me uneasy when our President is seen to be threatening friends like Denmark and Canada. But with him, the great good he does by far outweighs the bad.
Yes, threats against tiny, harmless countries are unseemly, but they are probably also the best hope of obtaining, for example, Greenland. What I mean is that the ONLY circumstance that I can foresee wherein the Danes would give up Greenland "voluntarily" is if they are fairly certain that if they don't it will simply be taken from them. Then it would be dumb not to take the deal, whatever the deal happens to be.
ReplyDeleteGood point that we had much more leverage over Denmark in 1945, or at any point between 1945 and 1989. If we weren't so hamstrung by conventional thinking, we perhaps would have used it.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Maybe if the U.S. were to withdraw from Nato, the Danes would see more reason in selling us Greenland. Europe was unable to save them from virtually instant investment by the Boche in 1940. A continued security pact with the U.S. might be attractive to them. They may well still not trust an ever resurgent Germany.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Between 1945 and 1989, cynical old Europe , conditioned as it was to the primacy of power alone, might have chortled at the naivete of the U.S. newcomers on the world stage. They gladly accepted our protection from the Soviet horde and our financial aid but probably assumed that it was purely self seeking.
ReplyDeleteProbably it was,for the most part but as is curiously characteristic of most U. S. foreign efforts (save those throttled by treason at home), much blessed benefit was generated by the U. S. presence. And it culminated in the dissolution of the communist threat which hung over Europe like the sword of Damocles.
Are we remiss in suggesting to Denmark that some gratitude is in order regarding their tenuous( apparently many Greenlanders wish to be free of Danish possession )hold on Greenland? History shows us to have been a civilized administrator of lands under our control.
Indeed! U.S. overlordship ought to be a sought-after state of being... Alas, it isn't.
ReplyDeleteGratitude for our service to Europe throughout the Cold War??? Ha! Their attitude is "what have you done for me lately?" We are, of course, shouldering most of the economic burden of keeping Ukraine in the fight, but naturally we get no credit for that either.