[ExI] My prediction

[John Clark]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 4:38 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

*> NATO is dead. It's been Weekend-at-Bernie's-ed since 1989,*
>

*Well for a dead guy Bernie is looking pretty damn healthy! *




*In 1999 3 new countries joined NATOCzech RepublicHungaryPoland*























*In 2004  7 new countries joined
NATOBulgariaEstoniaLatviaLithuaniaRomaniaSlovakiaSloveniaIn 2009 2
new countries joined NATOAlbaniaCroatiaIn 2017 1 new country joined
NATOMontenegroIn 2020 1 new country joined NATONorth MacedoniaIn 2023 1
new country joined NATOFinlandIn 2024 1 **new country joined NATO*
* Sweden *

*And the following 4 countries have said that they very much want to join
NATO but have not yet been accepted: *

*Bosnia *
*Herzegovina, *
*Ukraine*
*Georgia*

*> The sabre rattling with Canada, Denmark, and Venezuela fit into this
> framework perfectly. All of them are about ejecting Chinese influence from
> the Americas.*
>

*How on earth can threatening to bomb Denmark so the US can plant an
American  flag on a big block of ice like Greenland reduce Chinese
influence?! It's doing the opposite,  if I was Danish I'd start thinking
seriously about cozying up with the Chinese to protect me from the US
bully. *

*> Reasonable people can disagree with this plan,*


*Sane people MUST disagree with this plan.  *

 > *it is neither stupid nor crazy *


*It is both. And Darin, I asked Spike this and now I'm going to ask you, if
Joe Biden was still president and he said he was thinking about bombing
Denmark in order to get Greenland, would you still be saying the idea was
neither stupid nor crazy?  *


*John K Clark*



*John K Clark*






>> *Without exception every member of Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 1600
>> Percent's administration publicly says that his idea of threatening NATO
>> member Denmark with military force is a good one. There are only 3 possible
>> explanations for that strange phenomenon, at least one of the following
>> must be true: *
>>
>> *1) Every member of the administration is as crazy as the President of
>> the United States . *
>>
>> *2) Every member of the administration is as stupid as the President of
>> the United States. *
>>
>> *3) Every member of the administration is lying about their opinion of
>> the mental state of the current President of the United States because they
>> value personal power more than truth or the Constitution. *
>>
>> *John K Clark*
>>
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