Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on Ownership.

I’m getting increasingly annoyed when people make a point of how America already has military bases on Greenland and are free to pretty much do what they want. So if they didn’t have have the Danish government’s permission to act as if they owned the place, that would indeed be a legitimate reason to invade? There’s a reason why negotiating with terrorists is considered such a terrible idea. If it were up to me, the American forces on Greenland would be given 24 hours to get the hell out the moment Trump put forth his threat (at the very latest).

As embarrassing as it must be (or at least should!) to be American these days, it’s hardly any better to be European. It’s been sickening to watch our leaders compete to abase themselves before the orange bully and sacrifice every shred of integrity, dignity and honor in exchange for less than nothing. If cringiness had mass, the world would have collapsed into a black hole long ago. Not only are they failing to protect Europe, but they’re turning it into something not even worth protecting. I don’t know whether the European spine died with Churchill and De Gaulle or simply atrophied out of existence through decades of disuse, but anyway it’s gone.

Think of Trump’s America as asteroid on a direct collision course with the Earth. You wouldn’t waste your time trying to talk the asteroid into changing its trajectory or argue about what we need the asteroid to do? It doesn’t care. You simply do whatever you have to do to push it out of the way. There is no harm the asteroid is going to do if you fail to appease it that it’s not going to do anyway. Same with Trump. He is going to do as much harm and evil as you allow him to do, and that’s it. There is no possible consequence of fighting back with everything you’ve got that’s worse than failure to do so.