🚨 Trump Asked Generals for Greenland Invasion Plans — and “They Say It’s Like Dealing With a Five-Year-Old”

If this report is true, it’s imperialism in real time — and it could detonate NATO from the inside.

This month, the world watched Trump’s administration seize Venezuela’s leader and talk openly about “running” a country and taking its oil. Now a new report claims the next step is even more unhinged: that Trump has asked U.S. special forces commanders to draw up plans to invade Greenland — and that senior military leaders are resisting because it would be crazy, illegal, and unsupported.

And buried inside that report is a line so grotesque it makes your stomach turn: that senior figures allegedly try to distract Trump — like he’s a child — by floating other military options, including a strike on Iran, as if war is a shiny object you toss across the room to keep a five-year-old from breaking something.

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Now let’s name what this is.

This is colonialism wearing a flag

A powerful country threatening to seize territory it does not own is not “defense.” It is not “strategy.” It is colonial thinking.

Imperialism is when a powerful nation uses force, threats, sanctions, or coercion to dominate weaker nations — their politics, their economy, their leaders — because it serves the empire’s interests.

Colonialism is the more direct version: taking territory and treating another people’s land and resources like property to be controlled, exploited, and reshaped.

If a U.S. president is asking for invasion plans for Greenland, that is not a misunderstanding. That is a worldview: the strong take what they want because they can.

And that worldview is spreading like a virus through this administration.

The report’s core claim is staggering

The new report claims Trump has asked the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare a plan for the invasion of Greenland, and that senior U.S. military leadership is resisting on the grounds that it would be illegal and would not be supported by Congress.

It also claims hawks around Trump — naming Stephen Miller — feel emboldened by the Venezuela operation and want to move quickly to seize Greenland before Russia or China “makes a move.”

And it claims British and European officials are war-gaming scenarios ranging from direct force to “political coercion” designed to sever Greenland from Denmark.

Here is the part Americans must not ignore: Greenland is not some “unclaimed space.” It is a homeland with a people. It exists within the Kingdom of Denmark. Denmark is a founding NATO member. The United States and Denmark have been allies for generations.

So if America even seriously plans an invasion, it is not just threatening Greenland. It is threatening the entire architecture of alliances that has shaped the modern world.

An invasion would rip NATO apart — and everybody knows it

NATO is built on a simple principle: an attack on one member is an attack on all. That’s Article 5. That is the spine of the alliance. That is what is supposed to prevent precisely this kind of predatory behavior.

If the United States — the central pillar of NATO — becomes the country threatening to seize allied territory, then NATO stops being a defensive alliance and becomes a joke.

A Danish prime minister already warned that a U.S. attack on Greenland could mean the end of NATO. That is not exaggeration. That is not dramatic rhetoric. That is a sober statement of fact.

Because once you normalize “we can take allied territory if we want,” you have told every nation on earth that treaties are paper and borders are optional — and that the only law that matters is force.

That is the world Trump’s inner circle keeps describing with pride.

“They say it’s like dealing with a five-year-old”

The report includes a quote attributed to a diplomatic source: that senior U.S. military figures think Trump’s Greenland plan is “crazy and illegal,” and that dealing with him is “like dealing with a five-year-old.”

That line is humiliating for the United States, but it’s also revealing. Because if anyone in the chain of command truly believes that, then the country is in crisis.

A five-year-old doesn’t comprehend consequences. A five-year-old doesn’t understand death. A five-year-old doesn’t understand that an invasion is not a headline, it’s a catastrophe.

And if the president of the United States is being managed like a child around the subject of war, then the lives of millions of human beings are being placed on a roulette wheel.

“Distract him with Iran” is moral rot

This is the line I cannot get past. The report claims senior figures try to deflect Trump by suggesting “less controversial measures,” including launching a strike on Iran.

Family, read that slowly.

Less controversial… than invading Greenland… so maybe Iran.

That is moral collapse at the highest level.

Iran is not a conversation topic. Iran is not a distraction tactic. Iran is not a toy. Iran is a nation of real people — families, children, elders — whose lives would be ripped open by war.

And this is not theoretical. The region is already drenched in trauma. Gaza has been experiencing genocide for over two years. Lebanon has been bombed. Yemen has been starved and attacked. Syria has been shattered. Iraq has been occupied. Afghanistan has been burned.

And now we are supposed to accept that the U.S. military’s internal “distraction” strategy might involve floating yet another war, as if the Middle East is a board game and generals are moving pieces to calm a restless president.

That is not leadership. That is the normalization of death.

Venezuela was the “success” that emboldened them — and that should chill you

One reason this Greenland talk feels more dangerous now is because the administration’s rhetoric around Venezuela has already crossed lines Americans were taught could never be crossed.

Trump’s administration seized Venezuela’s leader in a military operation, killed large numbers of people according to multiple reports, and Trump has since spoken openly about “running” Venezuela and “taking oil.” He has described the United States as a political overlord — and he has treated international law like a nuisance.

That’s the pattern: once an empire commits an act of lawless force and faces no consequence, the act becomes precedent.

Then it becomes a template.

Then it becomes a habit.

And now, according to this report, the habit is moving from Venezuela to Greenland.

International law is being treated like a joke — and the world is learning the lesson

The UN Charter prohibits aggressive war. It enshrines sovereignty. It treats borders as inviolable. These are not “niceties.” They are supposed to be the minimum rules of human survival.

But for over two years, Gaza has shown the world what happens when powerful nations decide those rules don’t matter.

We have watched the international system fail in real time: statements with no enforcement, outrage with no accountability, courts treated like inconveniences.

So yes — the world is watching Greenland with fresh fear now. Because when the most powerful country on earth starts talking like an empire, everyone hears the message.

And the message is simple: the rules only apply to the weak.

Greenland isn’t “for defense.” Greenland is for dominance.

The “defense” argument is often a cover story. Even Denmark and Greenland’s leaders have pointed out that the United States already has significant military access and presence in Greenland through existing agreements.

So when Trump’s circle talks about seizing Greenland anyway, it stops sounding like defense and starts sounding like something else: control.

Control of territory. Control of resources. Control of Arctic routes. Control of the narrative.

That is imperial behavior. That is colonial behavior.

And the most disgusting part is how casually it is being discussed — as if it’s just “a scenario,” as if it’s just “timing,” as if it’s just “midterm optics.”

That tells you everything you need to know about how disposable human lives become under empire.

Congress must stop pretending it is irrelevant

If a president is asking for invasion plans, Congress has a duty to act. The Constitution does not give presidents the right to start wars like a hobby. The American people are not props in a foreign policy spectacle.

But here’s the honest truth: Congress has been training Trump-world for years that it will tolerate almost anything. It has shown “bipartisan” enthusiasm for endless war budgets and endless weapons shipments, while acting shocked when the inevitable consequence arrives: a president who believes force is the only language that matters.

This is the crossroads.

Because if the United States becomes a country that can openly plan to seize allied territory, then America is no longer a democracy with power.

It is power pretending to be a democracy.

And the rest of the world will respond accordingly — by arming up, splintering alliances, and treating the U.S. as a threat rather than a partner.

A final moral line

Greenland is not for sale. Venezuela is not for plunder. Iran is not a distraction. Gaza is not a footnote. Human beings are not chess pieces.

If the people around Trump are truly talking about war like a game, then the country is being governed by a moral emptiness that will swallow all of us.

This is why this work matters. This is why we cannot normalize this. This is why I refuse to write about empire as if it’s “policy.”

It’s theft. It’s coercion. It’s violence.

And it must be named.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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