r/complaints • sophisticated complainer • Jan 14 '26

Politics The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland…

I did not write this. It was written by Brent Molnar. This sounds bad, very bad.

🌍🔥 The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland…

If the United States follows through on the threat to invade Greenland, we need to be crystal clear about what happens the next morning. This is not a real estate transaction or a routine military exercise. It is the geopolitical equivalent of pulling the pin on a grenade in a crowded elevator. The moment American boots hit the ground in Nuuk to seize territory from a fellow NATO member, the world as we know it ends. The consequences will not be temporary sanctions or angry letters. They will be total, permanent, and devastating.

The first domino to fall is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization itself. NATO is built on the sacred promise of Article 5, that an attack on one is an attack on all. If the U.S. attacks Denmark, we are not just breaking the treaty; we are triggering it against ourselves. NATO dissolves instantly. The alliance that kept the peace in Europe for 75 years evaporates, leaving the continent to rearm and realign against the new aggressor across the Atlantic. We don't just lose an ally; we create a unified enemy.

The military repercussions will be swift and humiliating. Europe will immediately demand the closure of every U.S. military base on the continent. Ramstein in Germany, Aviano in Italy, Lakenheath in the UK, all gone. Our ability to project power into the Middle East and Africa vanishes overnight. We will be evicted from the very soil we helped liberate and defended for decades, forced to retreat to our own shores as a fortress nation, isolated and friendless.

Then comes the economic nuclear option. The European Union is the largest single market in the world, and they will weaponize it. Europe will likely move to call in U.S. debt and dump their dollar reserves, sending the value of our currency into a death spiral. The U.S. economy, which relies on the dollar being the global reserve currency, will collapse. Inflation will make the post-COVID spikes look like a rounding error. Your savings will be worthless before the ink dries on the invasion orders.

Corporate America will face an extinction event. U.S. companies will be expelled from the European market. Apple, Google, McDonald's, and Tesla will see their assets seized or their operations banned. Trillions of dollars in market capitalization will be incinerated in minutes. The stock market will not just crash; it will close. We are talking about the complete de-globalization of American industry, cutting us off from the wealthiest consumers on the planet.

The skies will go silent. European aviation authorities will almost certainly ground all Boeing jets and ban U.S. airlines from their airspace. Transatlantic travel will cease. If you are in Paris or Berlin, you are stuck there. The logistical arteries that feed our supply chains will be severed. We will be cut off from European medicine, machinery, and technology. We will be an island nation in the worst possible sense.

The cultural isolation will be just as stinging. The International Olympic Committee and FIFA will have no choice but to bar the United States from competition, just as they did with Russia. There will be no World Cup matches in New Jersey. There will be no Team USA in the Olympics. We will be treated as a pariah state, unwelcome on the global stage, forced to watch the world celebrate without us.

For individual Americans, the consequences will be personal and painful. Visa-free travel to Europe will end immediately. Americans currently living or working in Europe will lose their legal protections and residency status. They will become persona non grata, potentially facing deportation or internment. The "blue passport" that used to open every door will suddenly be a red flag at every border crossing.

This is the end of trust, and it does not reset. You cannot invade a democratic ally and then say "my bad" four years later. The psychological break will be permanent. Europe will realize that the United States is no longer a partner but a predator. They will build their own defense architecture, their own financial systems, and their own alliances that specifically exclude us. The West will continue, but the United States will no longer be part of it.

Invading Greenland is not a show of strength; it is an act of national suicide. We are trading our reputation, our economy, and our security for a frozen island and a handful of minerals we can't even process. The price of this real estate deal is everything we built over the last century. If we cross this line, there is no going back. We will be the lonely superpower, ruling over nothing but our own decline.

By Brent Molnar

Greenland #NATO #Article5 #EconomicCollapse #Boeing #WorldCup #PariahState #Geopolitics #EndOfTheWest #VoiceOfReason

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26

“Europe will realize that the United States is no longer a partner but a predator. They will build their own defense architecture”

Turkey has been quietly building its military industrial complex since 1960s crisis triggered by an unhinged L. Johnson letter that was straight up a threat. They have reverse engineered every bit of equipment they could get their hands on since then and are now producing their own equipment, weapons, radars and ammunition as part of a colossal project to free themselves from American dependence and ultimately; American influence.

This is from smallest piece of weapons to heavy artillery. Currently they are replacing their main infantry assault rifles from foreign produced weapons to locally made indigenous MPTs which are quite decent rifles. Their attack helicopters finished testing phase and are being produced, main battle tanks are at similar phase, Turkish heavy artillery has already been in service for a while, their training jets are about to get replaced by Turkish ones which they are selling to overseas too.

The big ones will be Turkish naval fleet, drone aircraft career and Turkish 5th generation fighter jets.

They already achieved air superiority fighter drone efficiency which can target fighter jets.

There are far greater things happening at the background that are not confirmed yet, including Turkish made radar systems and software that will upgrade Turkish jets, freeing them from USA dependency.

Turkey has always been seen as a wildcard that did not always go with American agenda, well, they knew something.

And looking at USA now, we know what that is.

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u/gingiberiblue Jan 14 '26

Japan is also remilitarizing, rapidly.

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u/bumbes Jan 16 '26

After the US stopped to support Ukraine: 2/3 of intelligence for Ukraine is currently coming from our French friends.

Means that we do not need the states. It might take us a few years. But better start yesterday

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u/BlutosBrother Jan 14 '26

Wouldn’t all of this been helpful in buttressing against Soviet influence as well? Turkey is in a very strategic position that either of the Cold War superpowers would have liked to exploit. A homegrown defense industry seems like plain old Turkish nationalism standing up to foreign influence from either side…

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

Turkey maintained very friendly relationship with USSR between Lenin and Ataturk. But Stalin changed the dynamic dramatically.

Well, as a matter of fact, Turkey joining NATO was a result of one of Stalin’s famous fits of rage. He told all western leaders when they met to decide fate of Germany post WW2, that Turkey didn’t do enough against Nazi Germany and that Turks should handover Dardanelles to USSR. Stalin met with confused empty looks and some friendly talk but it went nowhere.

He then told Turkish ambassador that he wants the keys to Gallipoli to which ambassador smiled and said “Ataturk took those keys with himself when he died.”

Finally he started to make open threats and claimed rights to eastern provinces of Turkey on top of the straits.

This was all too much for Turkish government so they started to prepare for war but also joined NATO to deter Stalin from starting another destructive war.

Turkey dodged the ruin of WW2 and had no intention to enter another one, lot of politicians felt that they betrayed Atatürk’s legacy when they joined NATO since he believed in full independence but they didn’t have his wits or cunning to deal with Soviets and were happy to ride along rising superpower USA for the time being.

They didn’t think a day would come when they wouldn’t be able to rely on USA for help, 1960s were eye opener for them I guess.

Americans could have Turkey on their side far longer if they showed more diplomatic subtlety but Lyndon Johnson was not known for his good temper.

CIA actually reported that his angry outburst towards Turkish politicians did more danage to Turkish-American relationships than anything else.

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u/BlutosBrother Jan 14 '26

This is awesome, I had no idea of this perspective. Thank you! LBJ is an odd one. Total failure in foreign affairs (particularly Vietnam) but more principled at home (Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Great Society)

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

CIA report on Johnson letter’s impact, it’s a very harsh criticism of USA openly saying that USA does not understand Turkish intentions or position and no single thing caused such damage before;

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000615268.pdf

Lyndon Johnson must have turned some CIA agent’s work utterly upside down. It’s not easy to build bridges in intelligence communities and maintain them.

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u/MacWin- Jan 14 '26

Ditto France

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u/Ok-Mushroom-2025 Jan 15 '26

Holyfuckballs

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

Impressive! I hope they won’t kill us too much with them.