Post #13069 by mungofitch on the Berkshire Hathaway board

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So the only way to move in that direction is by outright force. Might as well be clear about it.
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I'm a bit unclear about what you meant, were you referring to attempting to take Greenland by force, and perhaps Panama and Canada?
Monaco is probably safe, but the inmates are running the asylum, and you got nice beachfront property there, shame if someting happened to it, know wadda I mean?

I was thinking of more of a scenario like this:

The US says to (say) Costa Rica that they can join the US security umbrella to be defended from China and the US allies the Russians, in return for $30bn US dollars, plus granting 1000 acres for a new Trump golf club.
Cost Rica (per logic above), observes that such a guarantee is a entirely worthless, and responds "Ahahahahahahaha"
US gunships blockade the port of Puerto Limón till the economy collapses and they submit.

Hence, the only way to move in the direction of countries paying to be under the untrustworthy US defence umbrella is by force. Nobody is going to do a voluntary deal with a regime that doesn't honour any deals at all.

Jim

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