you do not want to hit him where he's weak. you want to hit him in the place where he'd be weak if you hit him.

“Why are Europeans and Canadians so mean?”

Because our country threatened a war of aggression.

“Why aren’t Americans doing anything?”

1500 US Army arctic warfare specialists are literally incapable of deploying to Greenland due to domestic protests over dissidents being publicly murdered.

i think, however, this is a crystal clear example that the next cold war is actually democracy vs autocracy and the battle lines run right through every single advanced democracy. there aren't really any safe harbors.

Also a significant amount of active athletes are exclusively on X

Perhaps the problems are empire, capital and just uh evil guys.