[ExI] My prediction

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] My prediction

 

 

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 9:20 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

 

 

> I am betting there will be a deal for Greenland which lets them keep their free health care but makes it a US territory.  I am betting against any military conflict between Denmark and USA

 

>…I am not willing to make a bet on that because nobody has any way of knowing what our Mad King is going to do next. If on a whim he decides to bomb Denmark then Denmark is going to get bombed, unless some Republican invertebrates in Congress grow spines and have the courage to say what they are certainly thinking "that's insane!". But I'm not betting on that unlikely possibility. 

 

John K Clark

 

 

Ja of course.  If that takes place, I will likely spend the next several years in a Danish internment camp.  However… I suspect it will not, and that the whole thing isn’t really about that, or even Greenland exactly.

 

Consider the known risk to a country which has nukes: it risks allowing its traditional military to atrophy, assuming no one will attack a country with lotsa nukes.  OK then.  What happens if Europe Inc. allows its ground forces, its traditional tanks and armies and stuff, to dwindle to ineffectiveness because it is under the US nuclear umbrella?  Then it is not well situated to resist an ambitious Russia.

 

Now, just for the sake of argument, assume… that nuclear war is a bad thing.  It’s just a theory of course, but let us assume that nuclear war is “bad.”  Then a course of action is to build up traditional forces, the ground war stuff that many of us hoped humanity had outgrown, only to be disappointed.

 

Now imagine the USA, with mounting interest costs having to displace other expenditures.  Good chance supporting NATO is on that list of things which must diminish in the next few years, the funding of which must go to interest for debt the US government has already borrowed and will borrow in the next several years to cover interest on its current debt.

 

Then… imagine what could be done with Greenland, if the profits flow to abundant and eager venture capital.  Such as… ideas I will share in a future post if I get time.

 

spike  

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

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