Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nPresident Trump is working on acquiring Greenland. He announced the framework for a deal. Some people can’t figure out why he wants it. They look at the standard map and say “We don’t need Greenland to defend ourselves from a mass attack by Russian tanks, we have NATO troops in Germany. Why Greenland?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not everybody does original thinking, I get that, but it can’t be too hard to reason out from basic principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first duty of the American government is to defend the territory of United States. Defending the territory of other nation-states comes second. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Russian tank attack through the Fulda Gap does not threaten the territory of the United States. US troops in NATO countries are there to deter Russia from attacking Europe, not from attacking the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Preventing an attack on Europe is lower priority than preventing an attack on the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stationing US defense forces in locations to protect the US is more important than stationing defense forces in locations to protect Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The art of war has changed since World War II. The standard map is deceiving, the polar map is revealing. Modern war can take the polar route to strike us. Greenland is a better location for US defense forces than Germany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don’t need Europe. We need Greenland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We should pull out of NATO and redeploy our defense forces to put America First. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
How hard is that to understand?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
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Now that Europe has more people and GDP than the US, it makes sense. \u00a0
their militaries are abiut 1\/6 the size they were during the. Cold War, which does not. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Now that Europe has more people and GDP than the US, it makes sense. \u00a0their militaries are abiut 1\/6 the size they were during the. Cold War, which does not. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90115,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90114\/revisions\/90115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}