David McAfee
December 29, 2024
RAW STORY
MAGA hats are laid out on a bench outside of the White House, after Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Daniel Cole
While mainstream media is talking about potential invasions of Greenland and Panama, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making advancements in their real war effort, according to a columnist's analysis.
National opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch, is no stranger to issues related to the president-elect.
Bunch Sunday published an opinion piece in which he argues we should "forget Greenland" and Panama.
"In a world where the news doesn’t stop getting more bat-guano crazy just because it’s Christmas, where a phony war between the United States and Denmark consumes more electrons than the heartbreakingly real ones in Gaza and Ukraine, you might have missed a major escalation in the world conflict that matters most," Bunch writes. "The unrelenting and wildly successful war on facts, also known as truth."
Bunch goes on to call out specific news outlets he says are missing the bigger picture.
"This significant surrender on the war against propaganda, and the campaign against a holdout pocket of resistance in Wikipedia, got scant attention in a mainstream media that was decimated both morally and economically over the course of 2024. Instead, the scribes at the New York Times, Washington Post and elsewhere were on the scavenger hunt for a new batch of shiny objects planted by the nominal president-elect: wild threats to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland and maybe even Canada," the piece states. "Forget Greenland. My strong — and maybe naive? — hunch is that Denmark’s vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory won’t prove to be 2025’s Sudetenland, but Trump’s blustery and out-of-left-field pitch for American lebensraum is important as the leading edge of Team MAGA’s real World War III — against any consensus on objective truth."
He then adds, "The tactical goals for Musk (lower taxes, the end of government regulations, preferential deals with the U.S. government, and — yes, Bond fans — global domination) and for Trump (disappearing his criminal cases while monetizing the American presidency) are very much in sight. Their strategy for getting there — the real WWIII that doesn’t involve storming Panama — is the nuclear demolition of objective reality."
Read the piece here.
MAGA hats are laid out on a bench outside of the White House, after Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 6, 2024. REUTERS/Daniel Cole
While mainstream media is talking about potential invasions of Greenland and Panama, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making advancements in their real war effort, according to a columnist's analysis.
National opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch, is no stranger to issues related to the president-elect.
Bunch Sunday published an opinion piece in which he argues we should "forget Greenland" and Panama.
"In a world where the news doesn’t stop getting more bat-guano crazy just because it’s Christmas, where a phony war between the United States and Denmark consumes more electrons than the heartbreakingly real ones in Gaza and Ukraine, you might have missed a major escalation in the world conflict that matters most," Bunch writes. "The unrelenting and wildly successful war on facts, also known as truth."
Bunch goes on to call out specific news outlets he says are missing the bigger picture.
"This significant surrender on the war against propaganda, and the campaign against a holdout pocket of resistance in Wikipedia, got scant attention in a mainstream media that was decimated both morally and economically over the course of 2024. Instead, the scribes at the New York Times, Washington Post and elsewhere were on the scavenger hunt for a new batch of shiny objects planted by the nominal president-elect: wild threats to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland and maybe even Canada," the piece states. "Forget Greenland. My strong — and maybe naive? — hunch is that Denmark’s vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory won’t prove to be 2025’s Sudetenland, but Trump’s blustery and out-of-left-field pitch for American lebensraum is important as the leading edge of Team MAGA’s real World War III — against any consensus on objective truth."
He then adds, "The tactical goals for Musk (lower taxes, the end of government regulations, preferential deals with the U.S. government, and — yes, Bond fans — global domination) and for Trump (disappearing his criminal cases while monetizing the American presidency) are very much in sight. Their strategy for getting there — the real WWIII that doesn’t involve storming Panama — is the nuclear demolition of objective reality."
Read the piece here.
Trump or Musk should buy Greenland themselves instead of US annexation: Senior Russian official
Dmitry Medvedev says president-elect or his billionaire friend 'could just buy land, making it their private property'
Elena Teslova |29.12.2024 - TRT/AA
MOSCOW
A senior Russian official on Sunday weighed in on US President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial proposal for the US government to purchase Greenland or other foreign territories, saying that instead, Trump or his close ally Elon Musk should personally open their wallets to buy the land they want.
"Not sure why the US, as a country, needs to annex Canada, Greenland, or even Britain, and take back the Panama Canal. There's a more civilized way: @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk could just buy the land, making it their private property," Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president and premier, and currently deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, wrote on X.
It was not clear if the post was written as a serious proposal.
This month Trump reiterated his stated wish from his first term to control the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland, calling it an “absolute necessity.” Denmark quickly rebuffed his proposal.
Since winning his ticket back to the White House in November, Trump has also repeatedly called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "the governor of the great state of Canada,” as if it were a US state.
He also said the US may retake control over the Panama Canal if the current conditions of its use are not reviewed.
Musk, the owner of electric carmaker Tesla and social media platform X, is currently ranked the world’s richest man, with a worth of some $219 million, though it is doubtful if any of the territories in question would go for sale at any price.
Dmitry Medvedev says president-elect or his billionaire friend 'could just buy land, making it their private property'
Elena Teslova |29.12.2024 - TRT/AA
MOSCOW
A senior Russian official on Sunday weighed in on US President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial proposal for the US government to purchase Greenland or other foreign territories, saying that instead, Trump or his close ally Elon Musk should personally open their wallets to buy the land they want.
"Not sure why the US, as a country, needs to annex Canada, Greenland, or even Britain, and take back the Panama Canal. There's a more civilized way: @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk could just buy the land, making it their private property," Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president and premier, and currently deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, wrote on X.
It was not clear if the post was written as a serious proposal.
This month Trump reiterated his stated wish from his first term to control the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland, calling it an “absolute necessity.” Denmark quickly rebuffed his proposal.
Since winning his ticket back to the White House in November, Trump has also repeatedly called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "the governor of the great state of Canada,” as if it were a US state.
He also said the US may retake control over the Panama Canal if the current conditions of its use are not reviewed.
Musk, the owner of electric carmaker Tesla and social media platform X, is currently ranked the world’s richest man, with a worth of some $219 million, though it is doubtful if any of the territories in question would go for sale at any price.
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