Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“It goes without saying that trying to take over someone else’s country against the wishes of the inhabitants has nothing to do with freedom. The people of Greenland have no desire to be part of Trump’s Greater United States, as their own leaders have said many times. Wben an American leader declares that the people of another country will welcome our domination of their land (‘we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators’), that is usually a prelude to an act of aggression. American nationalists can’t imagine that other nations don’t want to be Americans, and they assume that that the U.S. is doing the others a favor by annexing or attacking them. Many people wanted to treat Trump’s Greenland fixation as a joke at first because it was so stupid, but he isn’t kidding.” (01/27/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/for-the-protection-of-the-free-world