Something like this is constantly playing in the dim recesses of his mind:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional leaders from both major parties announced Tuesday that the U.S. House and Senate have secured the votes necessary to pass the bipartisan NATO Unity Protection Act, a bill designed to reaffirm U.S. treaty commitments and explicitly prohibit the President from using military force to seize Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory under NATO protection. …
Once passed, the legislation is expected to head to the President’s desk, where its supporters anticipate a veto confrontation could emerge. If that happens, leaders in both chambers say they already have—or are close to—the two-thirds majority required to override.
Regardless of the final outcome, the legislative push signals a moment of rare bipartisan convergence in Congress around NATO unity, democratic alliances, and limits on unilateral wartime powers.
Revenge scenario -
Europe holds US T-bills valued in the trillions of $. Could they simply stop buying more, or sell what they have (who would buy them?). Would this damage the US economy?
Which Countries Are Buying & Selling U.S. Treasuries – Treasury Market Overview
China might buy them if the price was right. Own more of the US = more leverage
Would it damage the US economy? In enough scale, if done quickly enough, it would tank it.
I’m not seeing this elsewhere on the news; and I’d expect to. Do you have any additional sources?
Thanks.
Says “referred to committee”, which sometimes means ‘and will never be heard from again.’ Hope that’s not true in this case.
FWIW, I’m not seeing this story online at WaPo or NYTimes. Sunday evening, 8:30 CST.
Seems like an important story…
‘Speaking of Greenland, there’s a question for you that I want to pose. What is the difference between Greenland and Donald Trump? Greenland is not for sale,’
If it actually gets out of committee and passes both houses, it certainly will be.
But it doesn’t read to me like that’s happened. Though I’d love to wake up tomorrow and find out that it has.
Major U.S.-based news sources are laying off this story for some reason, but Al-Jazeera has covered it.
That matches with the PDF linked above: the bill’s been introduced.
Whether it’ll go anywhere seems to be another question. The post I originally replied to on this subject linked to a cite that claimed that they have the votes in both houses to pass it, and with either veto proof supermajorities or very close to that. Has anyone seen that elsewhere?
Again, I’d really like it to be true. And maybe that many Republicans in Congress have finally decided to do their jobs. But up to now they’ve been pretty determined not to.
It seems to me that mainstream American media should be covering the hell out of this! That would put pressure on Republicans to follow through. Especially if coverage generates public response directly to Republican legislators to get off thier butts and vote for it. Why keep it under wraps? Even in this nascent state it’s still news.
They’re not saying “boo,” they’re saying “Klo-BOO-char.”
Alaska Public Media reports Murkowsjki and Shaheen co-sponsored the bill
Congress.gov lists the bill as actually sponsored by Arizona Dem. Reuben Gallego, which might be why it’s hard to find
The reason for not covering it is the same as with lots of other bills that do not have needed support to go to the floor for a vote.
Here is a roughly similar bill that has been introduced in the House:
To get this to a House vote, there needs to be a discharge petition. Web search shows this has not been started. If there is a discharge petition, it will get a lot of U.S. newspaper coverage.
I am all for them passing a Greenland bill, and conceivably congress will. Trump would veto, and the veto would be upheld. But there’s a possibility it would be a factor in Trump delaying an invasion, and the longer the delay, the less chance it happens..
I would not hold my breath that the US Duma ( Gosudarstvennaya duma) will pass any legislation of the sort.
I’d give a Senate vote maybe a 25% chance. A house vote less than 1%. Veto proof? Nope. Never.
Trump sent a letter to the Norwegian prime minister that is absolutely demented. It was also forwarded to multiple European ambassadors in Washington by National Security Council staff. I would swear he was drunk posting if I didn’t know he was a teetotaler.
Yeesh. Even by his standards this is unhinged. You’d think someone in the diplomatic corps would at least TRY to polish this and make it look more like something a sane person would write, but I guess His Eminence insists that His words be transmitted unedited.
Or, the diplomatic corp wants the world to see how crazy he is.