alt Hacker NewsIf it were that obvious we would have specifically heard it it predicted. Maybe someone did but I didn’t hear it, and I listen to politics daily.
Expressing a desire to take Greenland but not actually doing so was a move out of his book Art of the Deal.
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it was patently obvious. people were just blinded by xenophobia as the primary issue facing the nation and they bought it, peripheral consequences be damned
What exactly do you want people (who exactly?) to have predicted that they didn't?
> If it were that obvious we would have specifically heard it it predicted
People absolutely predicted Trump military adventurism in the 2024 election cycle! It failed to break through in the media because of a deliberate reflection attack that leveraged a bunch of leftie memes about Biden/AIPAC/Israel to pretend that it was really the democrats who wanted endless war.
So that's what low info voters heard on their televisions. But the smart people in print were 100% warning about this kind of thing.
The million dollar question is how america occupies Greenland.
As always Europe does nothing
You knew airstrikes and Maduro ops were on the table from his first term (e.g. Soleimani).
You knew his idea of negotiating vehicle lease terms starts with "I will burn this dealership to the ground if I don't get my way!" (Art of the Deal).
What did you think was going to happen when he actually encountered serious people?