Timothy Snyder asks why Trump is jawing wildly about Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Panama, etc.?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Timothy Snyder asks why Trump is jawing wildly about Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Panama, etc.? Among the reasons for the theatrical imperialistic wild-talk, Snyder thinks:

"It is important for Trump's supporters to believe that Trump is the one actually in charge. One way to accomplish this is for Trump to seem more outlandish than Elon Musk."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Musk #imperialism #PoliticsofTheater #Greenland #Canada #Mexico #Panama

https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-greenland

[hllizi@hespere.de]

@wdlindsy He could just feed him to the fishes. Efficient Government.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@hllizi The question may be who gets to do the feeding and who's the meal.

[anubis2814@friendica.myportal.social]

@wdlindsy Trump can't do that, they can easily 25th amendment his ass and Vance is now president who is 100% owned by Musk and Theil

[greengordon@spore.social]

@wdlindsy

"The people who want to profit from [Arctic resources] are imagining themselves getting very wealthy in a world in which America is flooded on the coasts and on fire everywhere else, in which a very large portion of the American population is living through Asheville or Los Angeles every day. The aspiration to control these assets amounts to a politics of catastrophe, a plan to burn the world for the profits of the few. And this is the logic in which we take Trump at his word."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Greengordon Yes, a good passage. Thanks for pointing to it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@anubis2814 Yes.

[lanaehforaday@universeodon.com]

The entire Trump Organization was about FAKING THAT TRUMP WAS IN CHARGE....so much so that when Trump came up against the law, the only defense Trump had was--------------I WAS NOT IN CHARGE.
It's all wildly ironic.

@wdlindsy

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LaNaehForaday Very good points. Thanks for making them.