This is a headline in The National in Scotland this morning:
Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. Is Scotland next?
I am the author of the article in question, in which I set out my arguments, as I will in a video over the next day or two here.
This is one of my suggestions:
Talking of governments, there is one final dimension of this to consider. Suppose that quite soon, the UK has a far-right, English-dominated government in Westminster that is facing economic collapse as a consequence of climate change and the economic turmoil that Trump is going to create in the world economy. Might such a UK government be willing to negotiate the sale of Scotland? Imagine Farage in Number 10, and everything falls into place to make that idea plausible.
There are, of course, other suggestions, including that this idea might be ludicrous. But in response to that, I argue:
Is this a ridiculous fantasy? I would love to reject my own argument for precisely that reason. The trouble is, once I had this thought, it would not go away. If it is easy to work out why Trump wants Greenland, and he has made that claim over a number of years now, it is just as easy to see why he might also want Scotland.
We used to live in the land of the sane. We no longer do that. The insane is now on the agenda. We need to plan for it.
I think that last point is the most important. Everything has changed. I am not sure we have got our heads around that as yet. We have to, and quickly. Fascists just think of countries as property to be possessed. We need defences to that argument, or that is what they will become.
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I must confess, I was watching some fairly trashy series on Netflix last night. The absurd plot twist was – SPOILER ALERT – that the missile attack on a UK warship was done by the US as a way to prevent Scottish independence… an independence that would close the only nuclear submarine base in NW Europe that could handle US subs. They had to stop it at all costs.
Scary.
Trump has people behind him who worked with Nixon who was the president who helped turn the American health care system into what is today.
There may not be a conspiracy theory but one cannot ignore the fact that some very anti-social extreme capitalists and fascists have been beavering away for years to make things like this happen.
It is all about vested interests and when vested interests respond like this you know that humanity was onto something and was right to be so. The thing is, we are not going to be allowed it.
Is anyone who worked with Nixon still alive?
Yes – and he is called Roger Stone.
I’d put a link in for you but if I do that my post does not upload. His Wiki page is a real eye-opener.
Netflix I think has a documentary about him ‘Get Me Roger Stone’.
Thanks
“Nixon who was the president who helped turn the American health care system into what is today.”
Nixon did not turn the USA healthcare system into what it is today.
Nixon worked with Ted Kennedy, but they failed, to try and come up with a solution to prevent what has become the USA healthcare system today. Nixon did NOT corporatize the USA healthcare system, this came long after Nixon.
FYI: I am no fan on Nixon.
As you are an American I defer to your opinion.
It is quite hard reading opinions about Nixon’s Healthcare plans – some accounts speak of failure, others that it was politically motivated to save his skin, other accounts believe that as he was a ‘small government’ advocate his insistence on using private provision was a major weakness that is the source of its problems today.
Given how the costs have seem to risen for Americans I am still tilted toward my original view.
But you have to use the system or know those who do so Tampa Bay so I give way to you.
Could it be that all this is diversionary nonsense/stream of “consciousness” stuff (I am unconvinced that Trump is conscious in the conventional sense). “Hey I’m almost President. I can say & do what I want” – style of.
Reality/real world events are likely to come as something of a shock. e.g. I’d give it more than even odds that China will take a pop @ Taiwan – this year.
As for Scotland – independence is something that is seized – not given. Over to you Scots.
& as for Faslane, are we sure that any US nuke subs ever call there? (after all – the point of a nuke sub is that – it does not need to re-fuel).
I think Trump’s wild lebensraum ambitions extend from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
Hence his ambitions to extend the USA into Greenland and Canada, no doubt the countries of the Gulf of Mexico (or as he would have it – ‘the Gulf of America’), down through the South American countries that the USA has tried to de-stabilise for decades.
He’s the sort of nut-job who would look at a map and think ‘that would be neat’.
The guy, however, has a personal situation he can’t alter; his advancing age and/or his junk food addiction will see him off soon enough.
P.S. England doesn’t own Scotland.
PPS. It merely acts as if it does; viz UK Internal Market Act, various decisions of the Supreme Court overturning legitimate intra vires decisions of the Holyrood Parliament etc. The governance of Scotland by Westminster meets many of the definitions of colonialism and imperialism.
It’s not completely nuts, as far as the incoming US administration is concerned and this Politico article shows; https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-greenland-artic-sea-water-danish-pm-mette-frederiksen/.
The crazy thing is that Denmark is an ally and appears to be willing to talk to the US about cooperation, but that probably means compromise on Trump’s part, which, for Trump, who is all about “I win, you lose” would be difficult.
The aggressive talk is all for Xi and Putin’s ears, one suspects.
https://dearscotland.substack.com/p/could-trump-be-returning-to-the-monroe
We should ignore the comments by The Orange One. If he truly wanted to leave a legacy as a peacemaker and for doing something that no statesman has managed to do for more than a century he could rein in Israel and support the creation of a genuine, independent Palestinian state that could solve the middle east crisis for ever. It would be such a shock to Israel to see the US rug pulled out from beneath them that they would have little alternative and the whole world (except Israel) would applaud.
It is not going to happen.
Richard …of course it’s not going to happen…and yet I personally know two people who, to my horror, voted for Trump because “Biden didn’t do anything to help Palestine.” And Trump will????
You couldn’t make it up.
Trump negotiates like a 5-year old….
“Mum, I want an ice cream?”
“No.”
“Mum, can I get a pet monkey?”
“No.”
“Can we get a dog?”
“No.”
“Can I have an ice cream?”
“Oh, for heaven’s sake – yes!”
He’s already got the Danish PM wanting to ‘talk’ about Greenland’s resources, the Panamanians will cut their canal charges and get money for improvements, and Canada will put more resources into border security.
Maybe next he’ll threaten the UK with withholding the US-supplied nuclear warheads for something he wants – like a Tory-max government.