Military occupation would bankrupt mainland USA in two weeks. EUs combined army (excluding UK) is stronger than the US army, but the US have the shorter distance to it's advantage. Nobody would win a military occupation. EU would let the US take the island without resistance then implement sanctions, hence two weeks until the US runs out of supplies and all hell breaks lose.
And while the US is weak from lack of supplies, civil war and more land than it can defend. China and Russia will take the opportunity to make their moves.
On the plus side, muh greatest ally will lose to the Arabs as the US lose it's overseas military bases. Hence no "greater israel". Middle east would stabilize and muslims living in the west would return home.
I thought the plan was to make it a state? Most of our military occupations do not become states. Hawai’i never would have become an actual state with senators and rights and stuff if it hadn’t been for WWII. Also, the chain of islands was not part of a Union of nations with nuclear capabilities that we are currently allied with. Moreover, what’s the game plan next? Murder or forcibly relocate 54,000 people? We can’t threaten to nuke them, because it would be an obvious bluff. We don’t want to risk losing the resources we would want Greenland for, and irradiating a major source of the world’s water wouldn’t be good for anyone.
And then even if you did all that, how could you guarantee that an island physically removed from the continent wouldn’t trend blue like Hawaii does? I get the idea of turning it into Guam or Puerto Rico, I don’t get the idea of turning it into a state.
Military occupation would fix that...
Military occupation would bankrupt mainland USA in two weeks. EUs combined army (excluding UK) is stronger than the US army, but the US have the shorter distance to it's advantage. Nobody would win a military occupation. EU would let the US take the island without resistance then implement sanctions, hence two weeks until the US runs out of supplies and all hell breaks lose.
And while the US is weak from lack of supplies, civil war and more land than it can defend. China and Russia will take the opportunity to make their moves.
On the plus side, muh greatest ally will lose to the Arabs as the US lose it's overseas military bases. Hence no "greater israel". Middle east would stabilize and muslims living in the west would return home.
"Military occupation would bankrupt mainland USA in two weeks. EUs combined army (excluding UK) is stronger than the US army, "
Good joke. Haven't laughed this hard for long time.
I thought the plan was to make it a state? Most of our military occupations do not become states. Hawai’i never would have become an actual state with senators and rights and stuff if it hadn’t been for WWII. Also, the chain of islands was not part of a Union of nations with nuclear capabilities that we are currently allied with. Moreover, what’s the game plan next? Murder or forcibly relocate 54,000 people? We can’t threaten to nuke them, because it would be an obvious bluff. We don’t want to risk losing the resources we would want Greenland for, and irradiating a major source of the world’s water wouldn’t be good for anyone.
And then even if you did all that, how could you guarantee that an island physically removed from the continent wouldn’t trend blue like Hawaii does? I get the idea of turning it into Guam or Puerto Rico, I don’t get the idea of turning it into a state.