[ExI] My prediction

[Darin Sunley]

John, your talent for picking and choosing which sentences to respond to
based on your ability to generate the least charitable interpretation
possible is genuinely impressive. But punching through the smoke you're
blowing is a tiresome game, and I approach my limit.

The expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe is precisely the kind of post
mission propping up I was speaking of, motivated on the NATO side by a
desire to maintain influence and therefore keep the gravy train flowing,
and on the country's side by a desire to access the incredible amounts of
money that can be made available by international bureaucracies attached to
NATO membership.

The Chinese influence, such as it is, is in Copenhagen, not Nuuk. But
Greenland's security importance lies in it being North America's effective
border with the Russian sphere of influence (Look at a polar projection
map) as well as it's significant mineral and oil resources. China doesn't
enter into it.

I invite you to substantiate your oist interesting point: that a pivot to a
spheres-of-influence international order is "stupid and crazy". Failure to
fully engage on this point will be taken as concession that you are a
mouthpiece for your favorite cable news network, rather than an actual
player character.

As to your final question, it is barely coherent. Joe Biden is bought and
paid for, and has been his entire life, by the very people made rich beyond
the dreams of avarice by the post World War II international order. For him
to advocate for its dissolution, against the wishes of his entire power
base, would be prima fascia evidence of mental illness - even more than he
has already shown. That being said, yes I would still think it was a good
idea even if he was the one proposing it. It would probably get him killed
though, as it already almost has with President Trump.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 3:28 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 4:38 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> *> NATO is dead. It's been Weekend-at-Bernie's-ed since 1989,*
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> *Well for a dead guy Bernie is looking pretty damn healthy! *
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> 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*
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> *And the following 4 countries have said that they very much want to join
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> *> The sabre rattling with Canada, Denmark, and Venezuela fit into this
>> framework perfectly. All of them are about ejecting Chinese influence from
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> *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. *
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> *> Reasonable people can disagree with this plan,*
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> *Sane people MUST disagree with this plan.  *
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>  > *it is neither stupid nor crazy *
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> *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?  *
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>>> *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: *
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>>> *1) Every member of the administration is as crazy as the President of
>>> the United States . *
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>>> *2) Every member of the administration is as stupid as the President of
>>> the United States. *
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>>> *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. *
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>>> *John K Clark*
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