G is for Gaza. I is for Iran. We can’t take our eyes off of other events happening in the world just because the oligarchy wants us to focus on one thing at a time. It’s all interconnected.
Exactly - this is imperialism moving into the bats$%it stage before open war breaks out.
BTW Greenland, and arctic land with a native population of eskimos so to speak, has nothing to do with Denmark - it was colonized by the Danish, who in the initial stages of European colonization of the Americas, were a global sea power. Denmark-Norway colonized and controlled the Faroe Islands and then Greenland, went on to colonize a small area in Ghana and several places in the Caribban, and one in India, but later lost them.
The Danish-norwegian kingdom BTW ran a brutal slave trade, taking sloves from Africa to their colonies in the caribbean Islands and brutalising them to work, putting down rebellions savagely. The history is there.
Notablly the danish colonies such a St Croix and St Jan (St John in anglicised form now) were subject to a change of colonial masters over a century ago, and are now...."the US Virgin Islands".
"...On 17 January 1917, according to the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the Danish government sold the islands to the United States for $25 million ($614 million in current prices) when the United States removed its objections to Denmark taking control of the whole of Greenland, and the U.S. and Denmark exchanged their respective treaty ratifications. Danish administration ended on 31 March 1917, when the United States took formal possession of the territory and renamed it the United States Virgin Islands.[13][14] Rear Admiral James H. Oliver was the first American governor of the Danish West Indies.[14]..."
The US signing a treaty with it's fingers crossed behind its back? Nah, surely they would neeeeever do that?
Surely the Danish colonialists cannot be surprised that they would be further preyed upon.
The entire debate about "US needs to leave Greenland to Denmark" is frankly nothing short of perverse: the Greenlanders are not Danish and should be free to live their lives as they please. It is really disgusting to see how the Danish colonialms is being passed of a some sort of noble situation to be preserved. Do people not even look at the damn map and see where Denmark is and where Greenland is - even that alone should be enough to tip off the real story.
The European's of course would only be happy to colonize venezuela AGAIN - they did before. And their REAL attitude to colonialism has not changed a whhit since that cartoon in the wikipedia page above, was published in 197:
I can tell you for sure having visited Denmark in this century and seen golliwogs sold in tourist stores in Copenhagen. I asked about them and was told "It is part of our culture". In this 21st century.
Yeah, colonizers aren't going to be immune from being preyed upon. I know how the Danes are very possessive of Greenland. (I have a close friend from Denmark.) The Danes feel powerless compared to the nuclear powers in NATO, but they've always been able to brag about all that land up at the top of the globe that is theirs. Trump is goading them into capitulation by scaring them with the kidnapping of Maduro. Whether or not they can hold on and stand up to him is to be seen, but I'll take the Danish PM's threat to break up NATO if he tries as real. Grabbing Greenland would pretty much end it.
That is empty talk. The Danish are a yapping chihuahua country of 5 million people, who of late have built their national compass around proving they are in the ranks for the most rabid, supremacist countries in NATO. How would the Danish "break up NATO"?
This is what all these Scandinavia countries seem to have forgotten: neutrality is their best chance of thriving. Not playing lapdog to one side or the other. At the moment it is clear that uncle Sam has brainwashed their people and readied them to be the next proxies to be sacrifieced in the meatgrinder attacking Russia. So Denmark cannot survive now without being a US vassal - the Russians will NEVER trust any of the Scandinavians now after they have shown their true colours in the past few years.
Uncle Sam will of course strip them of their colonies and whatever dignity they pretended they had. That is the role of vassals. The mask is off.
Just don't tell them they are vassals. That sort of stuff really puts them out. (Their sense of nationalism is larger than Americans. They actually hang mini-Danish flags on their Christmas trees and use little flags instead of candles on birthday cakes.) But I believe they would pull themselves out of NATO, stop buying US arms, stop sending their troops into places for the US war machine like they did in Afghanistan, and generally being non-cooperative. Small and stubborn.
Nations may still have the decorative elements of a State like flag, anthem and national soccer team, but the fundamentals like Financial, Economic and Politic systems are controlled by the Anglo-murican Imperialists. So it's just a husk of a State, actually.
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"When a nation stays neutral, it's a sovereign country with free will, but when it joins a military block like NATO, it becomes an army base of an over-ambitious superpower that wants to control world order."
Well said. We'll see if little Denmark is the "mouse that roars" (and then gets swallowed up by the big fat cat) and can get away with it. But I'm afraid the rest of the beast that is NATO won't allow it.
Mette Fredriksen is playing for the gallery: all the time including a few months ago Denmark is signing vassal agreements with the same country she is claiming she will separate from:
One has to assume that not only is this bluster for fools in her population, but it is also a deliberatetly timed distraction from the imperialist crimes they are together collaborating on in Venezuela for example!
If you look closely, the Danish are deep in the military industrial complex of NATO, as a share of their own economy. It is not just about them buying F-35. It is also that their entire ecosystem of small tech industries is oriented towards selling into the US "defense sector" procurement chain.
Novo nordisk is like half the Danish stock market and its biggest market is.....the US.
In other words, their own oligarchy and their economy will take catastrophic losses in any conflict with the US.
And remember they have burned their bridges with EVERYBODY. They have been goading Russia and have invested in building weapons factories inside Ukraine, they have been deep on the anti China badnwagon, and of course they have aliented the entire global south especially the muslim countries with outright islamaphobia.
Frekriksen is making the kid of noise that gets repeated mindlessly by FT, the Guardian and their own media...for show. They are vassals and they are checkmated.
Thsi is why NONE of them them dare to say a word about the thuggery committed on Venezuela. All this is a play to pretend to their own population at home that they are in charge. Because the MAGA crew of course has its own local candidates lined up to take over these places.
Let me tell you their government officials playing to their own population actually works. You think that many Americans fall for propaganda from our Ministry of Truth? I'd wager that 99.9% of their population does. Small but stubborn.
My real fear is that Americans will act like the Germans of the 1930s and welcome the furhrer to revive their failing empire. They simply don't care what others think or feel or need. If that's the case, a lot of people will leave it and who. wants them?
Yeah, who wants a boatload of American refugees fleeing the dictatorship of the oligarchy? I'd expect other countries to treat them the same way the US currently treats refugees and immigrants--very poorly and refusing them asylum. You get what you give out, in other words. It's up to the American people to rise up and take out the evil that is destroying both itself and the planet. No more excuses.
and all this warmongering takes our attention right away from the Epstein files where it would likely be revealed just how depraved King Trump and a few others actually are
You're right. Will we ever see all the Epstein files unredacted? Will we ever know what crimes were committed against children and by whom? The more we allow the oligarchy to create chaos, the less we'll know and the less we'll be able to organize and rise up against them.
Yes, they are pleas for sanity in an insane world. One would hope they'd touch the souls of those who have compassion in high office and they would take action to make things better, but maybe there are none in high office with even a speck of a soul?
I haven't seen this yet, but I heard John Kirikaou's analysis on Lee Camp's podcast that went along similar lines. It all makes sense now why they attack and when and how that builds upon the next action... It's time for the People to throw a wrecking ball into the empire's plans for total world domination.
"I feel like a German who saw WW2 coming and couldn’t do anything"
I've been writing how Trump is revisiting 1930s and 1940s Germany. I think how many in the world actually supported Hitler in the beginning. Much like there are those claiming Maduro is an innocent victim.
To be sure, he is definitely a villain but still has rights. American imperialism looks very much like the beginning of a threat of global war. The justifications Trump offers are the same as Russia and China offer for their expansionist actions.
Thinking about how these big 3 wish to divvy up the world feels very much like 95 years ago.
I'm not sure what to do anymore. I just try my best to sleep at night.
I think Maduro is largely innocent, and that Russia and China are not showing evidence of expansionist visions. China has ONE foreign military base--the US has 700. China insists on retaining Taiwan which is historically part of China, is not claiming any other territory but demanding the right to trade with anyone, which is considered a normal right though currently much hampered by the US' illegal sanctions regime. Russia did invade Ukraine but only after it was couped, and the partly neoNazi new regime steadily attacked the Russian-speakers in the east, and NATO kept taking over countries on Russia's border, and the US employed strangling sanctions with no real pretext, just trying to keep a potential rival down. How many countries has Russia bombed in the last 50 years? How many has China bombed? How many has the US bombed? Yes there is certainly an expansionist actor here but it isn't China or Russia. Whether the three decided to divvy up the world I don't know--that may just be a unilateral US notion once the Trump regime concluded the planned war with China was too dangerous
Well, Maduro may be innocent of what the US charges him with, but there are reports of government corruption, suspected extrajudicial killings, numerous human rights violations. Pretty much as criminal and corrupt as Trump. I'm guessing Donny didn't like the competition.
Maduro may or may not be a villain. I doubt he is, because saying otherwise stinks of US propaganda. Whatever Maduro's record, it's up to his own country to deal with. The US is NOT justified in its actions. It is NOT justified in breaking international laws governing heads of state, or using the Geneva Convention as if it were toilet paper.
"Whatever Maduro's record, it's up to his own country to deal with. The US is NOT justified in its actions. It is NOT justified in breaking international laws governing heads of state, or using the Geneva Convention as if it were toilet paper." Absolutely Right!
The US really is crapping on the Declaration of Human Rights that it signed with fellow UN members, isn't it? Makes sense why the US won't sign the Rome Treaty and belong to the ICC and ICJ now. But sadder yet, it uses its own Constitution and Bill of Rights as toilet paper... Hypocrisy thy name is the United States of America.
Exactly - this is imperialism moving into the bats$%it stage before open war breaks out.
BTW Greenland, and arctic land with a native population of eskimos so to speak, has nothing to do with Denmark - it was colonized by the Danish, who in the initial stages of European colonization of the Americas, were a global sea power. Denmark-Norway colonized and controlled the Faroe Islands and then Greenland, went on to colonize a small area in Ghana and several places in the Caribban, and one in India, but later lost them.
https://thuppahis.com/2022/09/10/denmarks-imperialism-in-the-past-its-colonies/
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/historical-themes/danish-colonies/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark–Norway
The Danish-norwegian kingdom BTW ran a brutal slave trade, taking sloves from Africa to their colonies in the caribbean Islands and brutalising them to work, putting down rebellions savagely. The history is there.
Notablly the danish colonies such a St Croix and St Jan (St John in anglicised form now) were subject to a change of colonial masters over a century ago, and are now...."the US Virgin Islands".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_Indies
BTW note this bit of the history:
"...On 17 January 1917, according to the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the Danish government sold the islands to the United States for $25 million ($614 million in current prices) when the United States removed its objections to Denmark taking control of the whole of Greenland, and the U.S. and Denmark exchanged their respective treaty ratifications. Danish administration ended on 31 March 1917, when the United States took formal possession of the territory and renamed it the United States Virgin Islands.[13][14] Rear Admiral James H. Oliver was the first American governor of the Danish West Indies.[14]..."
The US signing a treaty with it's fingers crossed behind its back? Nah, surely they would neeeeever do that?
Surely the Danish colonialists cannot be surprised that they would be further preyed upon.
The entire debate about "US needs to leave Greenland to Denmark" is frankly nothing short of perverse: the Greenlanders are not Danish and should be free to live their lives as they please. It is really disgusting to see how the Danish colonialms is being passed of a some sort of noble situation to be preserved. Do people not even look at the damn map and see where Denmark is and where Greenland is - even that alone should be enough to tip off the real story.
The European's of course would only be happy to colonize venezuela AGAIN - they did before. And their REAL attitude to colonialism has not changed a whhit since that cartoon in the wikipedia page above, was published in 197:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Klods-Hans_foto_(cropped).jpg
I can tell you for sure having visited Denmark in this century and seen golliwogs sold in tourist stores in Copenhagen. I asked about them and was told "It is part of our culture". In this 21st century.
Yeah, colonizers aren't going to be immune from being preyed upon. I know how the Danes are very possessive of Greenland. (I have a close friend from Denmark.) The Danes feel powerless compared to the nuclear powers in NATO, but they've always been able to brag about all that land up at the top of the globe that is theirs. Trump is goading them into capitulation by scaring them with the kidnapping of Maduro. Whether or not they can hold on and stand up to him is to be seen, but I'll take the Danish PM's threat to break up NATO if he tries as real. Grabbing Greenland would pretty much end it.
That is empty talk. The Danish are a yapping chihuahua country of 5 million people, who of late have built their national compass around proving they are in the ranks for the most rabid, supremacist countries in NATO. How would the Danish "break up NATO"?
This is what all these Scandinavia countries seem to have forgotten: neutrality is their best chance of thriving. Not playing lapdog to one side or the other. At the moment it is clear that uncle Sam has brainwashed their people and readied them to be the next proxies to be sacrifieced in the meatgrinder attacking Russia. So Denmark cannot survive now without being a US vassal - the Russians will NEVER trust any of the Scandinavians now after they have shown their true colours in the past few years.
Uncle Sam will of course strip them of their colonies and whatever dignity they pretended they had. That is the role of vassals. The mask is off.
Just don't tell them they are vassals. That sort of stuff really puts them out. (Their sense of nationalism is larger than Americans. They actually hang mini-Danish flags on their Christmas trees and use little flags instead of candles on birthday cakes.) But I believe they would pull themselves out of NATO, stop buying US arms, stop sending their troops into places for the US war machine like they did in Afghanistan, and generally being non-cooperative. Small and stubborn.
No NATO country can be sovereign and independent.
That's the whole point of NATO.
Nations may still have the decorative elements of a State like flag, anthem and national soccer team, but the fundamentals like Financial, Economic and Politic systems are controlled by the Anglo-murican Imperialists. So it's just a husk of a State, actually.
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"When a nation stays neutral, it's a sovereign country with free will, but when it joins a military block like NATO, it becomes an army base of an over-ambitious superpower that wants to control world order."
- Mohammed Zaki Ansari
Well said. We'll see if little Denmark is the "mouse that roars" (and then gets swallowed up by the big fat cat) and can get away with it. But I'm afraid the rest of the beast that is NATO won't allow it.
Mette Fredriksen is playing for the gallery: all the time including a few months ago Denmark is signing vassal agreements with the same country she is claiming she will separate from:
https://nordictimes.com/world/denmark-signs-defense-pact-enabling-us-military-presence-in-greenland-and-faroe-islands/
https://www.fmn.dk/globalassets/fmn/dokumenter/nyheder/2023/-us-denmark-dca-den-prime-english-20dec2023-.pdf
https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-denmark/
One has to assume that not only is this bluster for fools in her population, but it is also a deliberatetly timed distraction from the imperialist crimes they are together collaborating on in Venezuela for example!
I assure you they cannot separate themselves.
If you look closely, the Danish are deep in the military industrial complex of NATO, as a share of their own economy. It is not just about them buying F-35. It is also that their entire ecosystem of small tech industries is oriented towards selling into the US "defense sector" procurement chain.
Novo nordisk is like half the Danish stock market and its biggest market is.....the US.
In other words, their own oligarchy and their economy will take catastrophic losses in any conflict with the US.
And remember they have burned their bridges with EVERYBODY. They have been goading Russia and have invested in building weapons factories inside Ukraine, they have been deep on the anti China badnwagon, and of course they have aliented the entire global south especially the muslim countries with outright islamaphobia.
Frekriksen is making the kid of noise that gets repeated mindlessly by FT, the Guardian and their own media...for show. They are vassals and they are checkmated.
Thsi is why NONE of them them dare to say a word about the thuggery committed on Venezuela. All this is a play to pretend to their own population at home that they are in charge. Because the MAGA crew of course has its own local candidates lined up to take over these places.
"Peace is more dangerous than war"
-Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen 2025
Let me tell you their government officials playing to their own population actually works. You think that many Americans fall for propaganda from our Ministry of Truth? I'd wager that 99.9% of their population does. Small but stubborn.
And A is for Arrogance, Authoritarianism and Assholes!
And an A+ for your insights!
My real fear is that Americans will act like the Germans of the 1930s and welcome the furhrer to revive their failing empire. They simply don't care what others think or feel or need. If that's the case, a lot of people will leave it and who. wants them?
Yeah, who wants a boatload of American refugees fleeing the dictatorship of the oligarchy? I'd expect other countries to treat them the same way the US currently treats refugees and immigrants--very poorly and refusing them asylum. You get what you give out, in other words. It's up to the American people to rise up and take out the evil that is destroying both itself and the planet. No more excuses.
and all this warmongering takes our attention right away from the Epstein files where it would likely be revealed just how depraved King Trump and a few others actually are
You're right. Will we ever see all the Epstein files unredacted? Will we ever know what crimes were committed against children and by whom? The more we allow the oligarchy to create chaos, the less we'll know and the less we'll be able to organize and rise up against them.
You're not getting answers to your "how many" questions because they aren't questions. They're cries.
Yes, they are pleas for sanity in an insane world. One would hope they'd touch the souls of those who have compassion in high office and they would take action to make things better, but maybe there are none in high office with even a speck of a soul?
I doubt that's true. I think as many as 3% have a speck of soul.
I hope we in the world can find our way out of this train wreck. Have you seen this analysis? It made a lot of sense to me. https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/the-us-raid-on-venezuela-is-aimed
I haven't seen this yet, but I heard John Kirikaou's analysis on Lee Camp's podcast that went along similar lines. It all makes sense now why they attack and when and how that builds upon the next action... It's time for the People to throw a wrecking ball into the empire's plans for total world domination.
I agree. Where's that wrecking ball?
Here's something to feed your soul from my neck of the woods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyzCozitvUA
Very nice song! Thanks!
You're welcome. I'm going to listen to it again when I get a chance.
This one makes a ton of sense to me as well. Larry Johnson alleged on Judge Nap that there was Mossad involvement in Venezuela.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47McBjptlck
I have no doubt those Moss-Sads are involved. They're everywhere.
Oh God--it sure does.
"I feel like a German who saw WW2 coming and couldn’t do anything"
I've been writing how Trump is revisiting 1930s and 1940s Germany. I think how many in the world actually supported Hitler in the beginning. Much like there are those claiming Maduro is an innocent victim.
To be sure, he is definitely a villain but still has rights. American imperialism looks very much like the beginning of a threat of global war. The justifications Trump offers are the same as Russia and China offer for their expansionist actions.
Thinking about how these big 3 wish to divvy up the world feels very much like 95 years ago.
I'm not sure what to do anymore. I just try my best to sleep at night.
I think Jae Rose said it well in a note comment:
“Maduro is a dictator.”
Says who? The US and western media?
Even if we entertains that he is. The USA has supported dictators in Chile, Guatemala, Indonesia, the Congo, Iran, etc.
The USA is not against dictators. The USA is against anyone who doesn’t play by their rules.
Maduro refused US colonial rule, that’s why he is a target.
Agreed. "refused US colonial rule, that’s why he is a target".
Whether he is a 'dictator' or not can be debated. But that he he is a criminal and corrupt ruler pretty much seems to be a fact.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/americas/south-america/venezuela/report-venezuela/
I think Maduro is largely innocent, and that Russia and China are not showing evidence of expansionist visions. China has ONE foreign military base--the US has 700. China insists on retaining Taiwan which is historically part of China, is not claiming any other territory but demanding the right to trade with anyone, which is considered a normal right though currently much hampered by the US' illegal sanctions regime. Russia did invade Ukraine but only after it was couped, and the partly neoNazi new regime steadily attacked the Russian-speakers in the east, and NATO kept taking over countries on Russia's border, and the US employed strangling sanctions with no real pretext, just trying to keep a potential rival down. How many countries has Russia bombed in the last 50 years? How many has China bombed? How many has the US bombed? Yes there is certainly an expansionist actor here but it isn't China or Russia. Whether the three decided to divvy up the world I don't know--that may just be a unilateral US notion once the Trump regime concluded the planned war with China was too dangerous
Well, Maduro may be innocent of what the US charges him with, but there are reports of government corruption, suspected extrajudicial killings, numerous human rights violations. Pretty much as criminal and corrupt as Trump. I'm guessing Donny didn't like the competition.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/americas/south-america/venezuela/report-venezuela/
Maduro may or may not be a villain. I doubt he is, because saying otherwise stinks of US propaganda. Whatever Maduro's record, it's up to his own country to deal with. The US is NOT justified in its actions. It is NOT justified in breaking international laws governing heads of state, or using the Geneva Convention as if it were toilet paper.
"Whatever Maduro's record, it's up to his own country to deal with. The US is NOT justified in its actions. It is NOT justified in breaking international laws governing heads of state, or using the Geneva Convention as if it were toilet paper." Absolutely Right!
The US really is crapping on the Declaration of Human Rights that it signed with fellow UN members, isn't it? Makes sense why the US won't sign the Rome Treaty and belong to the ICC and ICJ now. But sadder yet, it uses its own Constitution and Bill of Rights as toilet paper... Hypocrisy thy name is the United States of America.