White House Official: Why do we have the right to take Greenland? Because we live in a world governed by strength, by power. We have power. Nobody can fight the United States militarily
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/stephen-miller-greenland-venezuela.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.NTBs.QVCybCIlFBlp
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kowcop@aussie.zone · 32 pts · 224d
Has their military ever won a war beside the one where they dropped some nukes?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 16 pts · 224d
The Revolutionary war. And the Civil war.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 224d
Boutta have take two on those
howrar@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 224d
I don't think it counts when the outcome of the war is that the winner becomes the new US. It's always going to be a US victory regardless of which side wins.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 222d
Arguably, the Soviets won that one as well.
aramis87@fedia.io · 14 pts · 224d
They renamed one of their departments to the Department of War.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 224d
No reason for a Department of Defense if no one will attack us,but War, well you can do that proactively. Makes the Department more justifiable.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 224d
No they didn't. Only Congress can rename the Department of Defense. Trump's scrawled "orders" are meaningless.
Pandantic@midwest.social · 4 pts · 224d
It matters because it was all over the news and people now think that is what it’s called, not to mention the official government is saying that’s what it’s called.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 224d
The news is complicit in his actions. It has not legally changed names and no one should be using the illegitimate one.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 224d
Written papers are worth what people do with it 🤷
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 224d
This loser twerp needs to be the first to go.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
You act like we get a choice
mrdown@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 224d
No country can individually but if most countries unite we can
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 224d
Those with strength have literally always had the ability to use it against others.
The difference is we shouldn't have to until we have to.
Stealing oil is not a have to situation.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 224d
The US, 2026:
meathorse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d
In a world governed by strength rather than law, what's to stop the people just cutting his fxing head off?