Mike over at the Whip Line, his new political blog that replaces Vox Political, has posted about the hypocrisy of Starmer over the American kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro. Maduro is a genuinely nasty piece of work, and very few Venezuelans are sorry to see him go. But the kidnapping is a violation of international law. Hence the protests from the left. Except Starmer. This is despite Starmer having stood up and said he will defend international law. So that’s another broken pledge to go along with all the others.
But if Starmer was merely silent, anti-Muslim activist, thug and fraudster Tommy Robinson was actively calling on X yesterday for Trump to abduct Starmer because he was letting the Muslims and all the other immigrants in. Of course, if Trump did, it would be a violation of our sovereignty and make Tommy Robinson a collaborator. So, not very patriotic of the man whose the figurehead, or one of them, of the patriotic movement.
Trump is also demanding Greenland, because he claims that it’s vital for American national security. Strange that he’s saying this now, when no-one said anything about it during the Cold War. His spokesman, Stephen Miller, gave a television interview about it, and the dulcet toned Irish YouTuber Maximilien Robespierre has put up a video commenting on it.
Miller repeats the claim that it’s vital for American national security, and then claims that its annexation by Trump would benefit the rest of NATO, because they’d get increased American protection. He questioned the Danes’ right to the country, and said that there wouldn’t be any resistance to America marching in and taking it.
Robespierre points out that this completely ignores the wishes of the Greenlanders and the Danes. 87 per cent of whom don’t want to be part of America. Why would they, when they have all the benefits of a modern European country like state healthcare? Now I thought a country’s desire for self-government against foreign invasion was enshrined in international law, though I may be wrong. It’s certainly been a reason for nations calling on others to help them resist a foreign aggressor. As for the Danes’ right to the country, it was colonised by the Vikings in the early middle ages, but the colony was wiped out in the 14th century in the little ice age that created a harsher climate and famines across northern Europe. The Danes then re-colonised the country in the 19th century. Its population is a mixture of Danes and indigenous Inuit. It’s never been part of America, which has zero claim on it.
As for Greenland not resisting a military invasion because it’s so small, don’t be so sure. Sometimes tiny countries with much smaller populations have put up determined resistance to foreign invasion and occupation lasting decades. Libya is a case in point. It’s another nation with a small population, but it resisted the Italian invasion and occupation for about two decades, during which it lost a third of its population to Fascist butchery. I doubt that would happen in Greenland, but Trump might find any invasion much more difficult than he realises.
According to a Double Dose of Democracy, the Danish president has stated that if Trump does invade Greenland, he will invoke article 5 of the treaty. This will call on all the other members of NATO to join them in resisting Trump. It would, of course, be up to them how they respond, but it would destroy NATO.
This puts Britain and Starmer in an awkward position. Brexit means that we would have difficulty allying ourselves with the EU, because we are dependent on Trump’s goodwill and our connections with America. Furthermore, British politicians of both parties are fully behind the Atlantic alliance and supporting America thanks to the efforts of BAP, the British-American Project for the Successor Generation. This was an organisation launched by Reagan all that time ago to train the promising politicians of the future into backing America. It provided trips to America with talks and seminars. You won’t be surprised to know that one of the beneficiaries was Tony Blair. For more information on BAP, go to the website of the conspiracy magazine Lobster and look them up.
This is why I believe that if Trump invades Greenland, Starmer and Britain will remain silent. And I don’t doubt that the right-wing press like the Times and the Torygraph will lie and actively promote it.
Here-s the video by Robespierre laying into Miller.
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