America and the world order
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From Mitch McConnell regarding Greenland:
“Arctic security matters. So does the strength of our alliances. These interests are not in conflict. They are inseparably linked.
“Close security cooperation between Americans, Danes, and Greenlanders is a tradition older than NATO, the most successful military alliance in human history. Through the Cold War and still today, cooperation with Arctic allies from Canada to the Nordics already grants the United States sweeping access to positions of strategic importance.
“Threats and intimidation by U.S. officials over American ownership of Greenland are as unseemly as they are counterproductive. And the use of force to seize the sovereign democratic territory of one of America’s most loyal and capable allies would be an especially catastrophic act of strategic self-harm to America and its global influence.
“The northernmost reaches of the globe may well shape our strategic competition with major adversaries like Russia and China for decades to come. But if America behaves as though winning that competition requires trampling the sovereignty, respect, and trust of our allies, we will surely lose it.”
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Fareed Zakaria's op ed this week strikes a similar note.
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A man for whom I have no respect. He saw the light only after he could no longer benefit from kissing Trump's behind. The GOP majority (in Congress and the Court) that he so devoutly worked to create is exactly what is pushing us into this Orwellian situation.
