I don’t feel that was the intention here - and trust me I don’t consider the current day media in any shape reliable or honest.
No, rather what I see is pointing out that under Trump, the SOP of the US changed. For the past ~40 years or so the US has been famous about “exporting democracy” to countries that were arguably not democratic. With Palestine and Venezuela, both countries with questionable level of democratic processes, this SOP hasn’t changed. So it’s not that these two aren’t considered countries, but rather that the interventionalism from the US didn’t break past patterns.
With Greenland on the other hand, there’s a clear breach - the country IS democratic, and has a much higher democracy index (or lower, if you’re looking at ranking instead of raw numeric representation of level of democracy) than the US. Therefore the previously purported lie of “exporting democracy” simply cannot apply.
Not to mention that unlike attacking Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, or Afghanistan, or their continued support of the Israeli oppression of Gaza, attacking Greenland is a direct attack on an ally. It’s no longer a war based on ideological differences, or “self defence” in the shape of offence, but an outright, veil-less land and resource grab. No pretext of “we’re doing this because they instigated it” or something similar like the US has done for the past 40-50 years, no premise of international justification, just pure, raw aggression, which is again a major shift from the previous modus operandi.
It’s a demarkation of the fact that the US has turned an unapologetic bully (as they’ve been previously but made up for it by being “friendly” with others), going as far as demanding that the allies they’ve forced into a war nearly 25 years ago (remember, the only time Article 5 of NATO was invoked was by the US following 9/11) now bend the knee and “start pulling their weight”.
I don’t feel that was the intention here - and trust me I don’t consider the current day media in any shape reliable or honest.
No, rather what I see is pointing out that under Trump, the SOP of the US changed. For the past ~40 years or so the US has been famous about “exporting democracy” to countries that were arguably not democratic. With Palestine and Venezuela, both countries with questionable level of democratic processes, this SOP hasn’t changed. So it’s not that these two aren’t considered countries, but rather that the interventionalism from the US didn’t break past patterns.
With Greenland on the other hand, there’s a clear breach - the country IS democratic, and has a much higher democracy index (or lower, if you’re looking at ranking instead of raw numeric representation of level of democracy) than the US. Therefore the previously purported lie of “exporting democracy” simply cannot apply.
Not to mention that unlike attacking Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, or Afghanistan, or their continued support of the Israeli oppression of Gaza, attacking Greenland is a direct attack on an ally. It’s no longer a war based on ideological differences, or “self defence” in the shape of offence, but an outright, veil-less land and resource grab. No pretext of “we’re doing this because they instigated it” or something similar like the US has done for the past 40-50 years, no premise of international justification, just pure, raw aggression, which is again a major shift from the previous modus operandi.
It’s a demarkation of the fact that the US has turned an unapologetic bully (as they’ve been previously but made up for it by being “friendly” with others), going as far as demanding that the allies they’ve forced into a war nearly 25 years ago (remember, the only time Article 5 of NATO was invoked was by the US following 9/11) now bend the knee and “start pulling their weight”.