"All of this is the work of an unlearned, unread, blow-hard, know-it-all narcissist, who rattles around the White House in the dead of night dreaming up barking idiocy"

Cartoon by Glen Le Lievre

"When it comes to the national security front, Donald Trump is flat out losing it. After all, WTF was he thinking with respect to

……A $1.5 trillion defense budget?

……Kidnapping the president of a sovereign nation?

……Putting Mexico and Columbia on deck for the next drug fumigation?

……Essentially promising to militarily enable regime change in Iran?

…....Enforcing freedom of religion in Nigeria with more than a dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles?

…....Taking Greenland….. the hard way?

"All of this is the work of an unlearned, unread, blow-hard, know-it-all narcissist, who rattles around the White House in the dead of night dreaming up barking idiocy that none of the craven weaklings (e.g. JD Vance), boot-licking sycophants (e.g. Marco Rubio) and mentally-warped, xenophobic fanatics (e.g. Stephen Miller) surrounding the Oval Office are about to resist.

"But the last of the listed items—annexing Greenland—surely takes the cake for risible humbugery.

"Check the record. Among the most recent American officials to advocate the taking of Greenland was, well, Secretary of State William Seward. In the second half of the 1860s!

"This statesman of 'Seward's Icebox' fame feared England would take control of Greenland, thereby further thwarting the plans of his 'manifest destiny' crowd to annex Canada.

"Some eight decades later, there was also the original cold-war monger, Secretary of State James Byrnes, who offered Denmark $100 million for Greenland—the better to keep the Russkies off the icebergs. [Never mind they're already there just a few miles off the coast of Alaska.] Instead, Washington eventually settled for a rent-a-base at Thule, Greenland that actually made sense as a radar warning station at the time... the US doesn’t need bases in Greenland to support or enhance this kind of [warning system] in any case. That’s because America now has more than a dozen satellites in geostationary orbit that can actual do the job far more effectively ....

"In short, for pure nuclear security, annexing Greenland would amount to hideous overkill, save for the fact that it might actually destroy NATO once and for all! ...

"[Furthermore it would] waste a trillion dollars per year that Uncle Sam absolutely doesn’t have and shouldn’t ever get in order to fund the multiple equivalents of this 'Trump Icebox' in the Arctic.

"And that would be pure, unhinged madness, if there ever was such a thing."

~ David Stockman from his post 'Trump’s Icebox'