The furore surrounding the Dread Pirate Donald’s Trumper Tantrums with respect to Greenland are, I must say, some of the funniest comedy I have ever seen. The whole thing is hilarious at every possible level. Let us start with the very idea of “Greenland” being, well, a green land. It never was. The name comes from the ancient Viking raider (pirate, really – how ironic) and explorer, Erik the Red, who had to flee his homeland when Harald Harfager, aka Harald Shockhead or Harald Fairhair, told him to GTFO as he conquered all of Norway and forced his enemies to run away to Iceland, and then farther afield.
Erik, being both a prudent man and – according to the ancient sagas – a ginger, decided that discretion was the better part of valour, and went west. He sailed out and eventually landed on the coast of a gigantic land full of… nothing.
Given his fall from grace in Iceland, Erik wanted to build up a power base in this new land. Being a canny marketer – indeed, Erik might well be among the first “viral marketing” experts in the world – he sent messengers back to Iceland, which (as its name implies) is a pretty bloody cold place, where people have very little to do other than fish and… uh… fornicate. He told his people back home that he had found a vast, beautiful, fertile, green land.
That is where the name comes from – basically, a gigantic lie designed to get a bunch of Vikings to colonise a place that they otherwise would not have touched.
Today, of course, Greenland has a population of about 57,000 people, and is the subject of some truly funny political manoeuvring between the God-Emperor Drumpf, and the sackless, spineless YURPEENS.
It is important to note, seriously, that Drumpf WILL get Greenland. I am willing to bet money on this. One way or another, the Danes will be persuaded – gently or otherwise – to give up their claim over Greenland and cede it to Trump.
The Greenlanders will suffer greatly for this, because they will not receive the benefits of becoming the 51st state of the FUSA – that “privilege” will probably be granted to one of the current Canuckistani provinces. (I suspect most Albertans would be quite happy to join the US, given how ridiculous the Canuckistani goobermint has become.)
Greenland will instead become a Federal territory, a protectorate, like Guam, or the US Marshall or Virgin Islands, or Puerto Rico. They will be exploited for their resources, while they will receive massive Federal subsidies. It is not a great outcome.
But, in the games of geopolitical Great Powers, smaller, weaker nations, in the current day and age of the Lex Fortissimus, might as well accept it. I think it was Thucydides who wrote, following the Siege of Melos during the Peloponnesian Wars – the ancient world’s equivalent of the current global confrontation between Great Powers – that “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must”, or something along those lines.
This is the reality of the world today. The FUSA will take Greenland, because Europe is desperate to preserve the NATO alliance, due to its utter terror of Russia. And because Europe is broken, bankrupt, demographically collapsing, and totally cucked and pozzed out, it will pay whatever price it must to keep the US onside.
This is especially true, given the FUSA basically now controls Europe’s energy. All Drumpf has to do is to impose tariffs (which he is already doing) and threaten to cut off Europe’s supplies of American oil and gas, and the YURPEENS will roll over and present their soft bellies.
It is both hilarious and deeply disgusting at the same time to see such supine weakness on the global stage.
Of course, as a direct consequence of this, no one who supports the annexation of Greenland, should ever again raise a single word of objection to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Russians had INFINITELY greater justification for their invasion of 404 – Country Not Found, than the US has in annexing Greenland. That might, indeed, be the best outcome of this whole tragedy disguised as farce – the US is now dropping all pretence at playing Great Power games behind this nonsense of the “Rules-Based International Order”, and is simply saying outright that it will take what it wants by force.
So be it. Sooner or later, the FUSA is going to find out – as it already is in the killing fields of Banderastan – that its power has serious limits, and that other powers are more than capable of taking on the US military, and winning.
Anyway, let us leave all that behind. We are all here for a reason – a belatedly late reason, I admit.
This week’s lovely lady is Veronika Safronenko (Вероника Сафроненко), age 25 from Blagoveshchensk, Mordor. There is little else known about her, but apparently she is a really-for-real model. She also has the signature Slavic Bitch Face thing absolutely NAILED.
This is a typical feature of Russian women. Once you get past it, they tend to be warm, relaxed, and very funny, but it takes some doing. I was talking with one during my recent holidays, and I told her (in Russian) that she has one of the prettiest smiles I have ever seen – but most of the time, when she is smiling, her eyes remain cold, even though she actually has a kind and good personality overall. She actually appreciated the honest and direct feedback – which, again, is another core characteristic of Russians. They like it when you speak with them straight.
Happy weekend, all.
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“he sent messengers back to Iceland, which (as its name implies) is a pretty bloody cold place, where people have very little to do other than fish and… uh… fornicate. He told his people back home that he had found a vast, beautiful, fertile, green land.”
this is true now but was NOT TRUE THEN ( yes, obviously the interior was still covered in ice ). when Erik the Red founded his settlements, the Vikings were quite successful at both farming crops AND rearing sheep and cattle. otherwise the Viking settlements would have been abandoned within a couple of years rather than lasting for centuries.
this fact is part of the data set which completely blows up all this idiotic bullshit that the AGW clowns are constantly trying to spread. the Viking settlements in Greenland were established early in the Medieval Warm Period, and died due to the onset of a Little Ice Age in the 1400s ( there was also a Little Ice Age in the 1800s ).
“The Norse settlements in Greenland disappeared during the 14th and early 15th centuries.[31] The decline of the Western Settlement coincided with a significant drop in both summer and winter temperatures. Research on North Atlantic temperature variability during the Little Ice Age indicates that maximum summer temperatures began to decrease around the early 14th century, dropping by as much as 6 to 8 °C (11 to 14 °F) below modern summer averages.[32] Additionally, the coldest winter temperatures in 2,000 years occurred during the late 14th and early 15th centuries.”
in much the same way, the proposed “runaway Greenhouse Effect” from methane release from plant material in thawing permafrost of the far north loses a lot of urgency when you realize that they also say that this plant matter which is now frozen was grown in the soil within the last 10,000 years. indicating quite clearly that the polar regions were significantly warmer almost into historical times. just as the Sahara was a lush Serengeti with the largest lakes on the planet almost within reach of historical records.