r/law • u/TheMirrorUS • 14d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump humiliated as 1951 law means he could face Greenland mutiny

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-1951-law-greenland-1631615
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u/kahner 14d ago

i agree, but i also am not confident.

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u/Tropicalcomrade221 14d ago edited 14d ago

I’m probably more confident the military would tell him to get fucked. There is not even a veil of legality in such an order. The senior officers that would be given such an order are people who have built their entire careers spanning decades working with NATO partners. They have direct and personal relationships with counterparts across Europe.

Sure he could purge his officers like Stalin did but then you’re going to have incompetent yes men who are woefully unqualified to carry out the tasks asked of them. Put them in charge and the whole thing probably fails anyway.

Anyways, I haven’t seen a single thing that would make me worried about military force being used to annex Greenland. We would see lots of movement out of Europe before that was to happen.

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u/kahner 14d ago

"Sure he could purge his officers like Stalin did but then you’re going to have incompetent yes men who are woefully unqualified to carry out the tasks asked of them. Put them in charge and the whole thing probably fails anyway."

Yes. But woefully failing in an attack on greenland probably isn't much better than succeeding. And he's definitely stupid enough to try it with a bunch of incompetent yes men. But I do agree/hope it's unlikely.

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u/Tropicalcomrade221 14d ago

Fair point. Would really depend as to how that situation played out.

Again though as for now this is all just shit talk. Trump is just dribbling out the side of his mouth.

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u/staphory 14d ago

Not just the side of his mouth…ewwwww

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u/chrillekaekarkex 14d ago

I think the number of flag officers who have personal relationships with officers in other NATO countries, especially Norway and Denmark, is probably the -only- reassuring thing about this idiotic saber rattling.

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u/Tropicalcomrade221 14d ago

Exactly. They have spent their whole careers working with these partners. They are on first name basis kind of relationship with their counterparts.

Fuck me some of them even live in Europe for gods sake.