If the Liberals were truly worried about U.S. aggression, they would have opened speed-recruiting centres for the military last week

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Among those who are freaking out about Donald Trump, no one is behaving like he’s actually a threat. Either they don’t believe their own doomspeak, or they’re too incompetent to prepare for an allegedly imminent invasion.

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On Wednesday, the U.S. president lectured his World Economic Forum audience in Davos about his domestic accomplishments, Europe’s collective failures, and the pursuit of his latest muse, Greenland. “Those missiles will be flying right over the center of that piece of ice” in the event of a war, he says, hence his interest in acquiring the Danish island.

He went on to tell the room that he was “seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States.” At another point in the speech, with regard to NATO allies or possibly Greenland, he said that he “won’t use force.” Later on Wednesday, he announced that he’d reached a “framework deal” on Greenland and Arctic security.

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