The inevitable war with the USA

Ceres · Jan 19, 2026

celito said: ↑

Iraq didn't attack the US.
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Trump is also yet to attack Denmark, except for verbally, financially and through other hostile measures, like that of Trump Jr. and Charlie Kirk last year, before he got bumped off in Utah

celito · Jan 19, 2026

Ceres said: ↑

Trump is also yet to attack Denmark, except for verbally, financially and through other hostile measures, like that of Trump Jr. and Charlie Kirk last year, before he got bumped off in Utah
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I am just saying ... Iraq war wasn't Article 5 situation. The argument the US made is that the "War on Terror" was something new and unprecedented because 9/11 was perpetrated by a group and not a nation. That argument passed the sniff test on NATO for Afghanistan but not for Iraq.

Robert Borden · Jan 19, 2026

Ceres said: ↑

Trumps letter to

Denmark answered when the USA triggered NATO Article 5, you can always critizise Denmark and NATO in hindsight, but what Trump is doing now is unmistakably illegal from the get-go, also according to the US Constitution, as well as the Danish Constitution (that makes a sale of Greenland illegal) and NATO, which is also why all of NATO and the EU is rallying behind Denmark.
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Trumps unhinged letter to the Prime Minister of Norway :

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You sure you don't want to revisit your claim that Article 5 was invoked for Iraq?

No wonder so many Americans dive in double standards. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was just as illegal as those the US accuses the others of doing.

We refused to join

Ceres · Jan 19, 2026

Robert Borden said: ↑

You sure you don't want to revisit your claim that Article 5 was invoked for Iraq?
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celito said: ↑

I am just saying ... Iraq war wasn't Article 5 situation. The argument the US made is that the "War on Terror" was something new and unprecedented because 9/11 was perpetrated by a group and not a nation. That argument passed the sniff test on NATO for Afghanistan but not for Iraq.
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Right, it was triggered by several UN resolutions, with the first being Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, with the demand of withdrawal, which started the UN's involvement.

celito · Jan 19, 2026

Ceres said: ↑

Right, it was triggered by several UN resolutions, with the first being Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, with the demand of withdrawal, which started the UN's involvement.
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2nd Iraq War. Not the 1st one.

Denmark sent troops to the 2nd Iraq War.

Robert Borden · Jan 21, 2026

For the first time in over a century, Canadian military planners are modelling for a US invasion of the country as reported by the Globe and Mail.

Ironically they're inspiring themselves from the Talibans, given they'd be no match in conventional warfare:

"One of the officials said the model includes tactics used by the Afghan mujahedin in their hit-and-run attacks on Russian soldiers during the 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan War. These were the same tactics employed by the Taliban in their 20-year war against the U.S."

Canadian military units bore the brunt of the fiercest fighting against the Taliban in Kandahar from 2001 to 2011, suffering the highest per capita casualty rate. Interestingly, the Taliban respected Canadian tactics and fighting abilities.

feyenoordsoccerfan · Jan 23, 2026

CNN

https://www.cnn.com › 2026 › 01 › 21 › politics › scott-bessent-denmark-us-investment

Treasury Secretary Bessent says Denmark and its investment in the US ...
2 dagen geledenTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday offered some biting words about Denmark, which maintains territorial control over Greenland, after the European country's pension fund announced it ...

One of the largest pension funds in the world, the Dutch ABP, has secretly been selling US bonds, and not a few millions like the Scandinavian ones, but in the billions. This marks a rather huge policy change, away from US $ related investments, one which will be the same among the other Dutch pension funds.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/23/dutch-pension-fund-abps-us-state-bonds-dropped-eu10-billion-six-months

I've been on the Board of a pension fund and generally speaking they have the same risks assesments, so this isnot only done by the ABP.
In that Board I worked together with the CEO of the second fund in the list and I can tell you, when these guys talk in Davos to other investors/pension funds, people pay attention.

feyenoordsoccerfan · Jan 25, 2026

Took a look on the current fleet of aircraft carriers of the USA.
https://www.slashgear.com/1626420/us-navy-aircraft-carrier-list/
There are 11 used today and one built/being finished?
Total in the world seems to be 47, but I guess the US ones are the most advanced.
However I saw in the list several of those 11 mentioned of being retired in the coming years.
Are there new ones being built to replace them?

chaski · Jan 25, 2026

feyenoordsoccerfan said: ↑

Took a look on the current fleet of aircraft carriers of the USA.
https://www.slashgear.com/1626420/us-navy-aircraft-carrier-list/
There are 11 used today and one built/being finished?
Total in the world seems to be 47, but I guess the US ones are the most advanced.
However I saw in the list several of those 11 mentioned of being retired in the coming years.
Are there new ones being built to replace them?
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John F. Kennedy - to be delivered March 2027
Enterprise - 2030
Doris Miller - 2032
And 2 more planned

The Nimitz is 50 years old!

Minnman · Jan 26, 2026

Fortunately for Greenland, Canada, etc., Trump has decided to invade Minneapolis, instead. Presumably followed by a succession of other major US cities.

feyenoordsoccerfan · Jan 26, 2026

Minnman said: ↑

Fortunately for Greenland, Canada, etc., Trump has decided to invade Minneapolis, instead. Presumably followed by a succession of other major US cities.
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Yeah, and looking in the news on tv on the weather conditions, Greenland decided to invade the USA

feyenoordsoccerfan · Jan 27, 2026

Anyway, it's not only several states that go into the cold.
The US $ is collapsing.
The rate went down to 1$ for 0.9538, which for Technical chart readers is through the support level of 0.96!
I already warned about the mocking of the Danish and Swedish pensionfunds selling US bonds by that treasury dep guy, that the biggest European pensionfund, the Dutch ABP, (and in that wake the other big Dutch pension funds too) has been selling billions of those, which also means abandoned buying them.
Normally in times of high international tensions the flight is into US$ related assets, especially bonds. This time it's the opposite, a flight out of them.
Put on the table a rapid rising debt too and the need to finance that in the market, while the Dutch are selling, ....

celito · Jan 27, 2026

feyenoordsoccerfan said: ↑

Anyway, it's not only several states that go into the cold.
The US $ is collapsing.
The rate went down to 1$ for 0.9538, which for Technical chart readers is through the support level of 0.96!
I already warned about the mocking of the Danish and Swedish pensionfunds selling US bonds by that treasury dep guy, that the biggest European pensionfund, the Dutch ABP, (and in that wake the other big Dutch pension funds too) has been selling billions of those, which also means abandoned buying them.
Normally in times of high international tensions the flight is into US$ related assets, especially bonds. This time it's the opposite, a flight out of them.
Put on the table a rapid rising debt too and the need to finance that in the market, while the Dutch are selling, ....
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Devaluing the dollar is by design from this administration.

feyenoordsoccerfan · Jan 27, 2026

feyenoordsoccerfan · Jan 27, 2026

celito said: ↑

Devaluing the dollar is by design from this administration.
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Good luck with keeping interest rates low, while US debt is at records and the treasury bonds are being sold, not bought.

rslfanboy · Jan 27, 2026

feyenoordsoccerfan said: ↑

Good luck with keeping interest rates low, while US debt is at records and the treasury bonds are being sold, not bought.
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Well, he didn’t say it was a good design…