Talk politics.

To buy or not to buy Greenland, that is the question. I think it's unlikely it will ever be a possibility, but let's assume for a moment it is.

Recent history tells us that Presidents get one good stupid shopping spree with the nation's already maxed out credit card. Biden had the Inflation Reduction / Infrastructure acts, not sure where that money went. Trump 1 spent all his on a covid response, and I'm being generous to call that shitshow a response. Obama care, failure. W had some wars, possibly the benchmark for wasteful fuckups this century.

If you accept that Trump 2 is going to get to spend a ton of money on something eventually...

For the righties - would you really want this to be it? All that talk of america first and you want him to give that much money and attention to a piece of land a few thousand miles away?

For the lefties - would you really want to close this door, having no clue what's behind door 2? What's behind door #2? Sit back a minute and let your Trump-hating imagination run wild. Not only could it be worse, it probably couldn't get much better.

If taken literally, the title probably seems ridiculous - but keep in mind ridiculous things happen all the time.

If it were possible to 'overtake' some or all of the largest country in the world - how could it happen? What would need to occur for the seemingly impossible to become possible?

A few ideas:

1) Conquering Russia - even pieces of it - would be a logistical nightmare. It would take a country that embraces logistical nightmares - a country willing to throw in whatever resources would be necessary, with a population that either supports it, is indifferent, or doesn't have a say.

2) Russia would have to be down, all around. Morale - down. The economy - down. Militarily - perhaps punched out from a recent war. Worldwide sentiment towards Russia? Russia would need to be on the rest of the planets shit list.

3) The invading country would either need the rest of the world's enthusiastic approval or at least be the type of country no one would dare confront because they're 'connected' to everyone, the type of country that could create and release a virus that kills millions worldwide but somehow face no consequences (if your mind can even consider something that absurd).

4) Having help on the inside never hurts. If there were a country that relied more on simple bribery/elite capture instead of diplomacy and force as a means of advancing up the world's ladder - they'd have an advantage. Being nearby and not a traditional Russian nemesis would also obviously help.


Even if all these unlikely things came to be true - a grabbing of Russian land still wouldnt be likely - but if the hypothetical invader was ambitious enough, I'd assume it'd at least be considered.

What do you think - would those 4 things be enough? Would anything else need to fall in place? More or less likely than getting struck by lightning twice?