Note that they have invited Putin and Lukashenko (Belarus toady) to be on the board. 
The most important question; will they cough up the billion dollars?
I saw Keir Starmer give a press conference this morning. He didn’t say much directly about the sleeping giant fat-ass, mostly about EU and NATO unity. Basically the same thing, unless you want to consider Canada’s contributions to NORAD west-NATO.
Maybe trump hasn’t said it aloud to the press, yet. Tariff’s and sanctions have proved useless at changing political thinking. Maybe he wants to wait for KCIII to come and celebrate Independence Day 250, when the British don’t even have a fourth of july. (How the fuck was that scheduled).
Maybe let Hegseth announce that any - any armed flotilla that passed the longitude of Iceland will be sunk.
That may or may not effect any of the teams of the World Cup withdrawmg.
I suspect Donnie will give Vlad a pass.
Probably, yes. Putin agreeing to join the group gives it tremendous legitimacy.
He’s a peaceful guy. See? Name starts with P, and that stands for Peace!
Ya got Peace! Peace right here in Gaza City. Peace with a capital P and that rhymes with T and that stands for Tool*.
* you know… Donald Trump!
I can’t help but think of The Nixorcist - Perfectly Clear (1974).
Nixon: All I wanted was peace with honour. Who’ll give me ‘a piece with honour’ now?
I think extremely rich people probably treat the accumulation of wealth in the same way a normal person may see a video game, trying to score as many ‘points’ as possible. There’s no real material effect on one’s life or comfort level, it’s just a challenge and something to aim for. An addiction. They must be tremendously miserable.
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This. Contented people are not searching for the next fix, financial or otherwise.
Especially since excessive wealth often manifests in paying ludicrously exaggerated prices for prestige “luxury” brand mass-produced items that on some level they know are no better quality than similar mass-produced items costing orders of magnitude less.
The money itself means nothing to them except point-scoring, as you say, but they can’t help knowing that they’re voluntarily stepping up to be scammed just to prove they can afford to.
As I’ve said before, one of the problems with becoming immensely wealthy is that at some point you inevitably end up having more money than sense, no matter how much sense you had to start with. And that kind of money drags you into a bizarro world of pointless extravagance where sense becomes ever more irrelevant.
I think you are falling into the WYSIWTI (‘what you see is what there is’) trap here.
People who pay “ludicrously exaggerated prices for prestige “luxury” brand mass-produced items” want to be known as excessively wealthy, and consequently inform your image of what excessively wealthy people are like.
Meanwhile of the two billionaires I know, one looks like a pretty average businessman, and the other looks like he just came in from rounding up cattle. You would never know they were billionaires and so don’t inform your impression of what billionaires are like or do.
I think you’re right here. I’m wealthy enough to have/need a financial advisor. I don’t want to deal with it. I suppose I’m going to get a monthly… ‘allowance’.
My wife and I just retired so I’m not sure how this all works.
Very much the score keeping for some.
There are some exceedingly wealthy people we rarely hear about, because they don’t care to keep score. Like most of us, wealth is important for what it gets them (comfort and security, primarily) but not to show off. But others have a pathological need to seek status through accumulation and display of wealth. So we see that type on the news or social media all the time and think every rich person must be like that.
Recall Trump’s unusual obsession with being on the Forbes list, even going to the extent of calling them as “John Barron” and fooling them into accepting inflated estimates of his wealth. For him, wealth, like many of his pathologies, has always included a major element of status seeking. And especially now between his lifelong narcissism and as he careens wildly into dotage, it doesn’t penetrate his mind that what he considers important status symbols aren’t universal.
I read somewhere, and please forgive me I can’t link ‘cause I don’t remember where, that some ridiculously wealthy people verge on being hoarders. They can’t spend it all, but they can’t resist opportunities to pile up more and more. It doesn’t seem to matter how it affects them or anyone else.
Do they even have much of a Navy capable of sailing to Greenland in any form whatsoever?
Why not? It seems to be only a couple thousand miles from Murmansk (where I think the nearest Russian port is) to Greenland.
They have a navy. Technically.
There’s been sporadic attempts to modernize but they’re still heavily reliant on cold war leftovers. And there’s rampant corruption, poor maintenance, poor training, etc. And it’s been further weakened by Ukraine. Their power projection by sea isn’t all that great.
They certainly have a Navy, but enough to launch a land invasion? Less likely, especially as they are busy elsewhere.
They might have a few long-range missiles though. It’s not like there are that many significant targets in Greenland.
I don’t know why this is a discussion, though.
It’s playing into the distraction to entertain the notion that there is any threat to Greenland from either Russia or China. The only realistic current threat to Greenland is from the US.
They are incompetent in so many other ways but they are quite good at thoroughly flooding the zone.