Also - these unions are made up of hundreds of thousands of beaurocrats, and NOBODY knows the rules like beaurocrats.

Source: am municipal bureaucrat.

American here.

Don’t counter with tarrifs. Counter with embargoes. Trump loaded you a gun and handed it to you. Pull the fucking trigger already.

It’s about Naval access to the Atlantic. The Russian Navy has to go between Greenland and Norway. With NATO controlling both sides, they don’t have a route to the Atlantic through friendly waters.

It wouldn’t be very strategically important to the US on its own, but it currently is strategically important to NATO and harmful to Russia.

Getting NATO out of Greenland is Putin’s order.