Well, howdy there, internet people, it spell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump prompting Danish war planning.

So in the middle of January, we started talking about a European military exercise in Greenland.

On January 14th, we talked about how the exercise

wasn't really training, but was signaling to the United States that Europe was behind Denmark

and Greenland. Then on January 16th, we entertained the idea that it was a two-tier operation, which is when a military does

something very public to signal, while secretly they are actually engaging in real operations.

Sometimes secret preparations, sometimes training locals and so on. Well, reporting has come out that should give Americans

serious pause. It says that as Trump was rambling about taking over Greenland, Europe was taking

his statement seriously. Apparently, a Danish military operations order from January 13th outlines preparations that were undertaken to protect Greenland from a potential U.S. invasion.

It was a two-tier operation.

The preparations weren't just undertaken by Denmark, but by a list of other traditional European allies of the United States.

The severity of these developments can't be overstated. This is huge.

Preparations were reportedly undertaken by some of our closest allies to engage in direct combat against U.S. forces.

While we've talked about the damage Trump has done to America and how he's weakening it in just about every possible way,

the idea that preparations for war were seriously undertaken by nations whose soldiers were

fighting alongside ours just a few years ago is jarring.

I know how these operations work, knew it was possible, probable even, but seeing it in black

and white is still surprising.

I know the headlines are focusing on the deployment of troops who were tasked with destroying

Greenland's runways in the event of a U.S. invasion. But that's not where it ends.

The reporting confirmed suspicions that the movement of European troops to Greenland

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