What is the theory of how the US Navy keeps the dollar the reserve currency, when the US has made itself a pariah state? What mechanism? Would the US Navy be doing piracy and demand protection money in dollars? Piracy payoffs would be a far far lower demand for dollars than there currently is and, and also greatly reduce all other trade with the US, further reducing demand for US dollars.

Really curious what your reasoning is here.

If the US pisses enough countries off with this Greenland stuff that they shut down US bases around the world, that substantially curtails the US Navy's ability to be effective globally.

I saw an interesting article about plumbing problems on one of our aircraft carriers.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5680167/major-plumbing-...

> That would never happen until the US Navy ceases to be effective globally.

US Navy would have have no parking spots left in Europe if they try to annex Greenland.

The argument made like that is an original argument bent backwards. The argument was that the US Navy guaranteed open shipping lanes and kept Pax Americana. Now we get closed shipping lanes and Bellum Americanum.

You mean like how the Houthi’s unilaterally decided to shut down Red Sea shipping and the US Navy is still powerless to restore it?

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