As Trump has been upping his rhetoric about Greenland, even to the point of saying we would take it by force, I've been getting more and more nervous. America doesn't do that sort of thing. Yes, clearly Greenland occupies a very strategic location for American secureity, but why all this aggression about trying to get possession of it right now? I didn't want to have to criticize Trump, as usual, but it's just hard to tolerate such aggressive talk. Qhaatever happened to his famous negotiating tactics? Did he give up on those and if so, why He has a lot of patience with such tactics when it comes to dealing with the tarifs situation, changing his decisions quite frequencltly to accommocdate new developkments in that ongoing saga, but here he is showing a surprising impatience to get Greenland or else. I've been on the verge of denouncing him for this.
But as often happens with Trump, it turns out that when you hear the whole story, meajing the whole story from his point of view, his rhetoric makes more sense. That's what happenesd when I finally understsood why he was being so loud in denouncing Rob Reiner after he was so brutally murdered. I still can't fully accept his doing that, but once I got a better idea of just how persistent and nastyh Reiner had been in denouncing Trump at least it made more sense and I backed off some. I still don't think the politic thing to do is to denounce your enemy when he's just been murdered, but I guess if you're asked youi might have to say something along the lines that Trump said. Reiner was a genuine nasty enemy. Stilll....
trump isn't a genuine Christian. He's got lots of sypathy for things Christian but if he were a true Christain he would take seriously what Jesus says about loving your enemy. He might faily fail, as many of us do, the first time around, to obey the command, but if you are truly dsaved, born again, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, you can't hold on to your anger against an enemy without its eatibg at your consciewnce and requireing some attempt to bring your words into alignment with Jesus. Even silence under those circumstances if you can't manage sometihgn positive.
Then just this morning I heard on some radio program or other that Trump referred to Russian and CHinese ships and submarienes off the coast of Greenland as a threat to American secirity. The idea that there is in fact a real currently active threat in that area does make a big difference to my attittude to his aggressive positve.l ure. I still think he'd best ramp up the neotiations rather than going into threats, but what I'm getting more aware of now is that he's not very good at getting people on his side because he leaves out the reasonable causes for his attitude. I wouldn't have been so rejecting of his aggressive talk about Grenland if I'd had any idea the threat to our security was more than the usual fact that strategically Greenland stands betwene us aS rUSSIA, AND cHINA TOO, AND IS RATHER UNDER ACTIVE THREAT BY THEIR CURRENT PRESENCE IN THE AREA. i DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THIS HAS BEEN THE Case, but it makes a diference to me that it exists at all, and makes the strategic position of Greenland more important in my mind. I could still wish ehhe'd go about it in a jmore winning way. He is able to do that in many situations. I wish he'd been keeping it up with Greenland. Not sure why it stopped.
I foujnd an interesting video about the history anhd culture of Greenland on You Yune. I found it by putting those terms into the search line: Greenland HIstory and Culturej. It's quite long and I haven't yet finished listening to it, but it shows tht there has been along history of Scandinavian contact and settlement of the island. It came to a halt somewhere around the sixteenth century if I'm remembering correctly, but then the queen of Denmark inherited the isalnd and Denmark got invovled in it and there's some history after that invovlgin Denmark that I haven't hetyet heard through.
The island is an awful oplace to try to live. The Inuit live there and have lived there continuously through all the Sanidnavian comings and goings, tbut they are adapted to that way of live and it's hard to aimagine Americans wanting to move lthere and take it on with them.
Cojldn't we just establish more of a military presence there or somethiong? Why do we have to own the whole place? Could't we have soeme area of it, buy it as our own colony without the whole island? Wouldn't that help? I don't know. The aggressive rhetoric of taking it by force still borhers me ifeven if I have a better idea of why Trump is going there.
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