Our implosion isn’t so slow these days.

Thanks for following up on my comment with the most important link!

In my submittal, my reasoning also included the fact that the change to “Gulf of America” didn’t follow the official process.

The place to protest this isn’t Google.

We need to have everyone propose a name change to the official body in charge of place names, the US Board on Geographic Names.

Unfortunately, one of the rules on name changes is “Changing a name merely to correct or re-establish historical usage is not in and of itself a reason to change a name.”

On the other hand, they also say “The most important consideration is local use and acceptance,” so the sooner we act, the better.

Or they’re burning through their VC funds because they’re out of ideas and have no customers.

A drink that tastes like melted churro ice cream.

I’m gonna download it when I get home and put on a few USBs. They won’t be connected to any device and will be stored in safes.

Can’t remote wipe data that’s not connected.

The more backups of important information we have the better.

We covered it heavily when I was in Texas public schools in the 90s.

Directly from the comment I’m addressing:

Georgia, though not anywhere close to Ukrainian nazi vermin, was preventing regions seeking autonomy that needed Russian assistance. Still, pig fuckers aspiring to NATO government…"

Read the latest comment from that guy down the thread when the mask falls completely off. It’s a real piece of work, calling Ukrainians vermin and Georgians pig-fuckers.

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Are you really pretending Russia didn’t invade Georgia?

It’s literally an alliance formed during the Cold War to prevent Russian expansion. Otherwise, Russia would have been invited to join NATO decades ago.

And to say ownership of the most-strategically located nation in the North Atlantic is unimportant to the North Atlantic Treaty is laughable. But you clearly know all of this. You’re trying to influence others to believe Russian propaganda.

Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia invaded Georgia. Russia invaded Afghanistan.

You know who they haven’t invaded they’d lusted after for decades? Turkey. But Turkey is a NATO member, so Russia can’t do shit without.

In fact, there’s a wall between Russia and the West of Europe formed by states that have not been invaded by Russia in the last 60 years, and that wall is comprised almost entirely of NATO members.

Russia has invaded 2 separate soverign states in Europe for the purpose of annexation into Russia within a 15-year span. The only thing stopping them from pulling more of that bullshit is NATO. Dismantling NATO - an alliance composed specifically to stop Russian annexation of neighbor states - is Putin’s number 1 international goal.

Trump is his number 1 tool in that mission right now.

It’s half that distance to the Faroe Islands, meaning NATO only has to control half that distance, which is well within the range of land-based anti-ship defenses.

Whereas free Russian movement along Greenland’s coast would be protected if it was under the control of a Putin-friendly US. They’d be even safer going through Bafin Bay to the West of Greenland. Od course that would only happen if Canada also left NATO.

And on a completely unrelated note, Trump is also trying to get Canada to become a US territory.

Those international waters are very narrow and have been a thorn in the side of Russia forever.

They invaded Ukraine to get access to the Mediterranean through the Black Sea and Turkey because they have no current way of getting Naval ships to European shores without circumventing the globe or sailing through the narrow stretches of the ocean that NATO is capable of blockading.

A blockage of military ships and not civilian ships is not out of the question.

And having pacific ports and no access to the North Atlantic would mean using the Panama Canal or going around Africa or South America to reach the Atlantic.

In the event of a military blockade by NATO after America leaves NATO, Russia’s only route to the Atlantic would involve the Panama Canal or going around Africa or South America.

And Trump is also totally coincidentally trying to take the Panama Canal too.

And Trump has also indicated we’re leaving NATO.

So having Greenland as part of NATO independent of the US important. If Trump were to take Greenland, he could allow Russian Naval activity in Greenland’s territorial waters.

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.

I was born on June 25th, and when I was little my sister tried to convince me it meant I was the antichrist since it’s three furtherest day of the year from Christmas.

Truth is, she was annoyed that her December birthday meant family members always gave her a single gift for Christmas and her birthday, and I always ended up with a gift for each.